Restaurante Casa Suiza
Great food at a great price. The swiss trained chef offers a daily lunch menu starting at US$4 including a fresh fruit juice, soup, mixed salad, main dish, and coffee. All meals are made from scratch. Even the bread and pasta are made in house. Pastry and pie dishes are also available. Check out the breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu on their website.
La Vitrola
Considered the best restaurant in town. cuban ambience, good food - high prices. it is located calle baloco on the corner front to the historical walls.
El Corral
Very nice colombian franchise hamburger chain. good quality hamburgers for $10,000-$15,000 pesos for a combo. one is located in boca grande; there are probably more.
Cafe El Santisimo
One of the must see restaurants of cartagena. dishes around 16 usd.
Crepes & Waffles
Very nice colombian franchise restaurant which offers very good dishes to excellent prices dishes around 5 usd. it is located calle baloco.
La Cevicheria
Calle stuart, opposite hotel santa clara, tel: 6642760. a great selection of hot and cold ceviches, around usd$8 a dish.
La Cava
Very good restaurant in the calle santo domingo. dishes around 16 usd.
Club de Pesca
Great seafood and great atmosphere. located in manga with view to the bay and marinas of cartagena.
El Bistro
In calle ayos 4-46, 2 blocks from plaza santo domingo. excellent european kitchen, german bakery, reasonabel prices.
La Cocina de Carmela
Colombian gourmet food in the calle santisimo close to parque fernandez de madrid. dishes around 12 usd. hard to find open.
There are many good restaurants in the Bocagrande area with the most interesting one we found on the beach. The food was of decent quality, but the delight was being directly on the beach - the water was coming up to the restaurant on the stormy night we ate there. But the host was a delight, a young man who spoke English, Spanish, French, some Portuguese and Turkish! El Laguisto Beach Club is at carrere 1 ra. No. 1A - 23 (http://www.laguitobeachcl...).
Quebracho
Argentinian restaurant at its best. goood meat, good ambiance. dishes around 18 usd. it is located calle baloco.
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Cartagena features a rich fusion cuisine, combining ingredients and methods of the New and Old worlds, as well as of the original African, Arabian and other legacies of its inhabitants. Eating set menu lunches and dinners in local restaurants called 'corrientes' costs around COP $6,000 pesos $3. A typical dish consists of fried fish if you are by the beach, chicken or meat, served with coconut rice arroz de coco, fried plantains patacones and salad. There are many places that sell $1 fruit juices. Colombia boasts a very good range of exotic fruits that can be mixed with water or milk.
In the old town, dozens of good restaurants can be found dotted around the streets. They are particularly concentrated close to the Plaza Santo Domingo in El Centro, such as:
Note that many of the below restaurants are not open on Sundays - La Cocina de Carmela is not open for dinner at all late Sept 2011, El Bistro and La Suiza are closed on Sunday.
There are also several around the smaller but more intimate San Diego Plaza next to the Santa Clara hotel and include:
Saint Michel
On the northwest corner of the plaza. if you fancy a change from the usual seafood or italian restaurants, this french option serves some very tasty fondues as the main courses in its three-course menus, very good value at around usd$10, as well as plenty of other dishes and wine at more reasonable prices than at most restaurants in this area.