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Restaurants in Caracas

Caracas is generally considered to be the best place to eat in the whole of South America. Indeed, restaurants in Caracas offer an extraordinary range of cuisines, from home-style Venezuelan fare to traditional Spanish cuisine to sushi and Chinese restaurants. Specialities include beef steaks and arepas (corn-bread snacks stuffed with fillings of your choice).

The Caracas restaurants below have been grouped into three different pricing categories:
Expensive (BsF 100 to BsF 150)
Moderate (BsF 50 to BsF 100)
Cheap (up to BsF50)
Prices are for a three course meal for one, with half a bottle of house wine or equivalent, tax and service included.

La Estancia

Price: Expensive

Famous for its juicy steaks straight from the Venezuelan plains of the interior, La Estancia is an upmarket Caracas restaurant in a beautiful hacienda-style building with wooden interiors, green courtyards and faultless service.

Address: Principal de la Castellana, Caracas, Venezuela
Telephone: (0212) 261 1874

Nobu

Price: Expensive

While nothing to do with the world-famous chain, Nobu in Caracas still manages to serve up some of the city's best sushi and sashimi from a pan-Asian menu focused particularly on Japan and Thailand. This wildly popular place can be noisy though - sitting downstairs is recommended.

Address: Centro Comerical Las Cúpulas, Caracas, Venezuela
Telephone: (0212) 285 9009

Restaurant Urrutia

Price: Moderate

Traditional Spanish restaurants are a mainstay of the Caracas cuisine scene, and this one is particularly recommendable. Situated in a round whitewashed building with a lively atmosphere, it specialises in Basque dishes.

Address: Avenida Francisco Solano, Caracas, Venezuela
Telephone: (0212) 763 0448

El Barquero

Price: Expensive

Aficionados of fish will be happiest in El Barquero, which has a long list of seafood and freshwater fish dishes cooked to perfection. It is a friendly and well-loved place with personal attention and two dining spaces to choose from: one laidback with music and the other more formal.

Address: Avenida Luis Roche, Caracas, Venezuela
Telephone: (0212) 261 4645

La Cocina de Francy

Price: Expensive

This much loved old timer is one of the very best spots to sample Venezuela's rich culinary culture, though it's no museum piece. With contemporary art on the walls and a large list of beguiling specialties, Francy's offers the very best cuisine from around the region.

Address: Avenida Este 2, Caracas, Venezuela
Telephone: (0212) 576 9849

El Gourmet Vegetariano

Price: Cheap

Vegetarian food isn't well understood in Venezuela, where the rump steak rules, but this simple, unassuming little spot breaks the mould, serving up enormous portions of healthy, filling meat-free fare for little more than loose change. It is slightly out of the way and the walk goes through a rough area so best catch a cab.

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