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foodmusic Aug 15, 2009 04:38 AM

Great place in Cartagena, Colombia?

We are in Cartagena for a week and would love some suggestions for good places to eat. We also need one upscale place because we want to treat our hosts. Any ideas?

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    lexvegas Aug 25, 2009 05:11 PM

    El Santisimo is lovely - it moved fairly recently to a new location with rooftop dining - that would be the way to go as the inside space is nice but nothing spectacular.

    Also recommend both cocina de socorro (fancier and has best seafood rice i had in all of colombia) and casa de socorro (more casual also good but not as good as the frou frou cocina de socorro. this nytimes article discusses both:

    http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/...

    for a nice, cheap dinner without many other travelers, grab a pizza at pizza en el parque - you order at the walk up counter and then eat in the park with a stool as your table - very fun and lots of locals (at least i think they were local folks). its on the tiny parque fernandez madrid.

    most excellent bakery (gold coated dulce de leche brownies) - La Milla. very fancy but worth it for an amazing sugar fix.

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