The best restaurants Caribbean Region

El Pescadero is the restaurant of the fishermen's cooperative, opened some forty years ago. In the open air, often with a pleasant sea breeze and a beautiful view of the blue sea, you can enjoy the day's catch, at light prices compared with other restaurants on the island. Fish soup, ceviche, casuel de mariscos and lobster are all tasty and the portions hearty. Try rondón, a local fried fish recipe. However, make sure you have plenty of time, as service can be a little slow!

The head of a large family, Doña Doris started to live from her cooking in 1985. Due to her success, she had to move her restaurant to the family home. She goes to the market every morning at 4:00 am to buy food for a menu that changes every day. The regulars don't hesitate to cross the city on Sundays to enjoy traditional dishes, such as beef tongue, carne posta, or mazamorra de maíz verde for dessert. A hearty and authentic local cuisine, in an ultra-colored and warm setting that honors the carnival.

A bar-restaurant with typical cuisine, perfect for a festive evening with friends and to feel the crazy quillero spirit. The decoration is spectacular, with a carnival and local culture theme, with the famous pico, the tiendita, the caiman, or the chiva, and lots of slogans and popular sayings written on the walls. A treat for the eyes and the atmosphere, perhaps more than for the food, which is decent, but quite expensive. Cucayo is a term from the coast that means rice that sticks to the bottom of the pan at the end of cooking.

Since 2007, this bar-restaurant has been steadily improving its quality, with meat and fish dishes with a French, Italian or Indian touch. Innovative recipes using fresh, healthy ingredients. House specialties include chicken curry with coconut milk, steak with pepper, baked fish fillet or seafood with coconut milk... The setting is simple and friendly, in the same spirit as the hostel. Enjoy cocktails upstairs, to take in the beautiful sunsets and sea breezes.

A real favorite! In a pleasant setting, very good local and fusion cuisine, prepared with fresh local produce. The menu changes daily, with creative, carefully prepared dishes that rival each other in taste and originality. But Casa Cocotte is only the economic part of a more global project: to facilitate access to tourism-related jobs for the local population, including a restaurant-school and a language center. A wonderful initiative by Sophie, a Frenchwoman who decided to change her life and devote her talents to helping the local community.

"The Cave". The great history and the small stories have made this bar-restaurant a place not to be missed in Barranquilla. Writers Gabriel García Marquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, and painters Alejandro Obregón and Enrique Grau, as well as their friends from the Barranquilla Group, which brought together writers, journalists, painters and musicians, used to hang out here. The evenings are animated with salsa and son cubano concerts. On the menu, tasty Caribbean cuisine in a unique historical and artistic atmosphere.

This has been Taganga's best restaurant for years. It offers refined Caribbean and international cuisine with fresh, tasty ingredients. The menu and dishes, which offer excellent value for money, include pizzas, vegan ceviche , pork loin, smoked fish, burgers and lobster! The other highlight of Babaganoush is the magnificent view over the bay, especially at sunset. And to top it all off, a particularly warm welcome. A little nugget for taste buds craving tenderness!

In a corner of Alfonso Lopez Square, Compae Chipuco is a bar-restaurant, a handicraft store and a vallenato exhibition hall. Its name refers to a legend of the vallenato, whose biography is told on a wall.We have a typical lunch in the patioin the shade of a mango tree. It is also a nice place to drink a cold beer at the end of the day. In the store, mochilas and sombreros vueltiao, and a small exhibition room on the vallenato (Compae Chipuco participates in the organization of the Festival).

A popular restaurant that travelers love. Its main advantage is its location on the banks of the Magdalena River, under the trees, next to Mompox's main square. Typical coastal cuisine is served, with the usual lunch-only formula, starting with a hearty soup, followed by a main course of fried meat or fish, coconut rice, patacones and a few crudités, accompanied by an iced juice. To be enjoyed in the breath of the river breeze. Reasonably priced.

For an early breakfast, a fresh ceviche at lunchtime, a late-afternoon beer or a sunset cocktail, this is the ideal beachfront restaurant, the only one to offer a variety of options and good opening hours! Dishes are based on local flavors, although burgers and snacks are also available. The natural juices are a lifesaver after a long day's walking, as are the Aguilas, the brand of Caribbean beers that are always served chilled!

An artisan bakery, restaurant, café and more commonly known here as the "rootsbar", this bohemian address is run by Milanka, a Chilean who has lived here for ten years. Since 2022, she has been running Mil Enkantos, the breakfast meeting place for backpackers. Good coffees, fresh juices, succulent homemade chocolate croissants and vegetarian dishes are served at lunchtime or dinnertime. Ideal before embarking on a day's hike, and just a stone's throw from the beach, you're sure to get your day off to a good start.

A restaurant run by Carolina and Carlos, originally from Bogotá, who came with a project of " cocina consciente", a conscious or responsible cuisine, both in terms of social conditions and respect for natural resources. Refined dishes, with a good mix of flavors and ingredients mostly from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Very pleasant setting, with occasional salsa, bossa nova or Latin jazz concerts. Happy hour every day in the evening on cocktails. Suá means "sun" in the Muisca language.