Our Curated Bogotá Edit: G–Zone Restaurants

Valentina
Mar 1
3 min read

There is something about Bogotá that continues to surprise even us.

It is the kind of city we long to discover when traveling abroad — cosmopolitan yet soulful, creative yet grounded. A capital filled with remarkable restaurants, independent art galleries, a quietly powerful fashion scene, and a cultural agenda that moves all year long.

When we travel, we don’t look for generic guides. We look for someone whose taste we admire — someone who can say, “This is where you should go.”

This is our way of doing exactly that.

Instead of sending the same list over and over again, we’ve chosen to curate it thoughtfully. Each place included here is somewhere we genuinely return to — for the atmosphere, the aesthetic, the flavor, the feeling.

Alongside our recommendations, you’ll find a photo gallery that has been quietly living in our phones, waiting to be properly used— moments captured with intention, finally gathered into one living city edit.

For those who wish to experience Bogotá beyond the obvious.

Mesa Franca
As they describe themselves:

MESA FRANCA IS A SIGNATURE RESTAURANT AND BAR. OUR CUISINE IS FRANK AND SPONTANEOUS, BASED ON CREOLE FLAVORS AND NATIVE TECHNIQUES. WE VALUE AND HONOR THE ROOTS OF OUR CUISINE BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING MORE COLOMBIAN THAN COOKING WITH COLOMBIAN PRODUCTS. (Mesa Franca s.f.)

The ambiance might be one of the biggest up sides. Relaxed, youthful atmosphere; great music, farm to table Colombian ingredients and signature cuisine. I’d say it’s the most “casual” out of the ones in its range.

Debora

#85 in the Latin-american 50 best restaurants 2025. Second time included in this list.

Whit a short menu, full of color and taste. Not no mention it has my favorite cocktails ever tasted. My favorites so far:

• Crispy pork . Beans from Montes

de María . Grilled pineapple

58.000

•Mussels . sweet chili . Coconut .

Arracacha root 54.000

•Chorizo Rice · Short Rib · Corn

on the Cob · Pork Crackling

142.000

•Palma

Destilado de passiflora.

Jerez Tomate de árbol

48 000

•Tizne

Ron Zacapa ámbar.

Cascara de café. Guayaba agria 48.000

•Jícara

Mezcal Unión. Licor de ajíes.

Curuba 52.000

Cl. 69 #4-80, Chapinero, Bogotá

Humo Negro

Fusion Colombian ingredients – Japanese techniques, this signature cuisine restaurant has a unique menu, with an alternative art deco style and also good for cocktails, give us the chance to enjoy the experience A-la-Carte, tasting-menu and mixology.

Cyborg: Mezcal Unión, tequila Don Julio Reposado, artisan chile liqueur, red tree tomato and furikake $49.000
Grilled Oysters
cream of burnt milk, seaweed $36.900

Cra. 5 #56-06, Chapinero, Bogotá

Salvo Patria
El Chato

"El Chato is a contemporary Colombian restaurant in Bogotá that, under the vision of chef Álvaro Clavijo, explores Colombia's biodiversity through constantly evolving menus crafted with regional products. Recognized as Latin America's best restaurant in 2025 by The 50 Best Restaurants, El Chato blends creativity, technique, and research to deliver an experience that celebrates and elevates Colombian gastronomic identity." (El Chato s.f.)

"For Álvaro Clavijo, cuisine is a permanent dialogue between tradition and modernity. We don't seek to replicate typical recipes, but rather to reinterpret ingredients, techniques, and culinary memories from a contemporary perspective-conscious and deeply rooted in the country. As Clavijo often says, "cooking in Colombia is an act of constant exploration." That exploration-across regions, producers, histories, and flavors-is what has transformed this project into a benchmark of Latin American gastronomy." (El Chato s.f.)

MINI-MAL

Café del este

Mediterranean and out of the G zone but not far from it near the T zone.

As they say "a contrast of places and flavor" Olives, tomatoes, sesames, just baked warm breads that will make you forget you’re avoiding gluten a full festival to your palate. Better with a reservation made as soon as you’re sold on the idea of it.