Restaurante de la Escuela Taller

Bogotá


This great lunch hot spot is tucked away inside a culinary (among other skills) workshop for disadvantaged youth and feels like a find. Dining here in the sunlit courtyard supports student efforts, who not only run the kitchen, but have carved the restaurant's wooden furniture as well. Modern, fairly sophisticated takes on traditional Colombian recipes fill the menu.

The excellent, award-winning ajiaco (COP$19,000) is hard to beat, but there are daily changing lunch specials (COP$13,500), panela-barbequed pork ribs, grilled tilapia with tamarind sauce and a whole lot more, which can be washed down with panela lemonade and enjoyed alongside native potato chips and spicy ají, which arrive table side for free.


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