The best restaurants Cotacachi

This restaurant offers a traditional cuisine, including cuy, the famous roasted guinea pig that Ecuadorians love. The clientele is mostly composed of tourist groups passing through the area, so avoid it if you are looking for authenticity, although since the pandemic the restaurant has turned towards the local market by expanding its menu with more common dishes. A daily menu completes the offer and allows you to have lunch at a lower cost in a pleasant atmosphere that is conducive to meetings. Folk music on weekends.

A restful place where you can read a book, sit and sip a drink accompanied by a pastry (carrot cake or muffin, for example), and this for hours. To test: the good organic Intag coffee produced in the region, speciality of this association of artisanal producers of fair trade organic coffee from the Intag valley. Cocktails and wines are also available. Book exchange on site. A very nice stop where you can also buy an excellent roasted coffee and even green coffee if you feel like roasting it yourself.

A large restaurant without great charm but serves good local cuisine.

Excellent homemade ice cream, cornet or cutting, and sandwiches in a relaxed atmosphere.

In Cotacachi, we advise you to do like the locals and have lunch at the market (Mercado de los Andes). A pleasant place, full of life, where you can taste typical Ecuadorian and more precisely Andean food. Grilled pig, chicken soup with vegetables, quinoa soup, so many family dishes that are rarely found in traditional restaurants will delight your taste buds at the corner of a very local table. The cooks will be delighted to help you discover their ancestral recipes.