El Mono Bandido

Top choice in Bogotá


Having commandeered a Quinta Camacho mansion and flipped it into one of Bogotá's most cinematic pubs, El Mono Bandido has atmosphere in spades. Enjoy house-brewed craft suds inside the two-floor space teeming with exposed, loose-end pipes illuminated with Edison lighting, or at one of a handful of oil-candle-lit tables in the surrounding garden.

Its original location at Carrera 4 No 54-85 in Chapinero also offers a very good time indeed.


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