The best bars and cafés Bogotá

Just a few steps away from the Chorro de Quevedo square, the "Grey Cat" is a café-restaurant with a bohemian and romantic atmosphere, where you can come to drink a hot chocolate during the day, or gather at night with friends, to enjoy concerts of jazz bands, salsa, or folklore of the Pacific coast. Concerts scheduled around 8-9pm often start much later. The setting is rustic, with rickety stairs and lots of small intimate rooms, perfect for a romantic dinner. Nice service, but the wait is sometimes long for food.

The BBC, Bogota Beer Company, is thepioneer in craft brewing in Colombia and is the most awarded Colombian brewery in the world. It now competes with the big national breweries, especially in quality. Both brewer and pub, BBC offers beers on draught or in bottles, with the small catering that goes well (very decent pizzas in particular). " La cervecería pequeña más grande de Colombia "has several other pubs in the city, and also in Medellín, Cartagena, Barranquilla or Santa Marta.

This pastelería francesa (French pastry shop) is run by Colombians. The quality is top-notch, and Café de la Peña has become a traditional meeting place for Candelaria residents and tourists in search of sweet treats. A venue for art exhibitions, it also boasts a pleasant patio with flowers at the back, under a glass roof. The pastries are quite good, especially compared with the Colombian standard, which is often overloaded with cream. Good coffee roasted on site, too, to accompany your postrecito.

For more than 40 years, Cecilia Ortiz, better known as Doña Ceci, has been delighting students in La Candelaria and partygoers from all over the world in her bar, which was once a simple tiendita (a neighborhood grocery store that also serves alcohol). A colorful tavern for a late afternoon or late evening drink, with a small concert area, cheap polas (beers) andaguardiente . The kind of simple, authentic and warm atmosphere that Manu Chao likes, who sometimes comes to sing when he is in Bogotá!

Contemporary design, a wide selection of books of art or architecture. Ideal for a coffee while growing.

On Rosales's Plazoleta, a perfect site for enjoying excellent coffee. A wide selection of teas also. Desserts of good invoice.

Here you will be able to combine billiards and darts or take a beer from the bar, mostly English. At the end of the evening, the waitress may offer a small cocktail of home made liqueurs. A good selection of Western American beers and music from Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens, Rolling Stones…

In a minimalist decor, one of the best techno places.

In a decor illuminated by thousands of candles, one can draw on a seated, or even elongated, shisha in comfortable sofas.

A chill-out atmosphere on two levels.

This cosy bar recalls, with its perroquets perroquets, its small green courtyard, its tropical cocktails and the warmth of its staff, the small paradise island lost in the heart of the Caribbean Sea with its name. You can listen to live live music live music on Thursdays and Fridays. The Djs do not exclude the inevitable salsa, or even some famous tunes of Western music.

Typically London pub, as its name indicates. Choice of artisanal beers.

For women only. Quiet afternoon, more lively for the evening.

A nice place to have a coffee, inside or outside, in a large patio. Many students from the nearby La Javeriana University, because the setting is friendly, but also because it serves excellent original coffees. The coffee is professionally selected, roasted on site and prepared by expert baristas, with 3 types of roasting and 9 different filtration methods, to best exalt the acidity, bitterness, body or sweetness of each coffee bean. Varietale also offers teas and food.

One of the best cocktail bars in the capital, with real mixologists who invent original recipes to surprise our senses. Author cocktails made with an impressive variety of herbs, fruits and organic vegetables grown in Colombian lands. Huerta Bar moved to a new space at the end of 2021 and opens during the day from now on, offering an interesting menu from healthy and local ingredients, in the same spirit as the elaboration of cocktails.

A little above the Parque de los Periodistas, in Las Aguas, a very nice cafe-bar, full of students at the end of the courses (the university of Los Andes is not far). The setting is rustic, warm, artistic, with a colorful decor and lots of recycled objects. A long open patio in the back, very pleasant in the afternoon when the weather is nice. Always good music, with concerts from time to time. On the menu, fruit juices, coffees (from Huila, delicious), hot chocolate, craft beers... and food : sandwiches, lasagna, pies..

An unpretentious café or tea room in old Usaquén. The space is airy, with small intimate rooms decorated with rustic objects and a warm patio, overlooking the street, with heavy iron tables where we are served (a little slowly sometimes) a cappuccino or a chai tea, fruit juices, wines and beers and also solid food including good Argentine empanadas... A nice place for a breakfast, or a break during his wanderings in the neighborhood. A lot of people on weekends (normal for Usaquén), more quiet during the week.