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1. Boragó

Contemporary Chilean tasting menu$$$$Vitacura

Rodolfo Guzmán's Vitacura restaurant serves the Endémica tasting menu of 12 to 18 preparations built on native Chilean ingredients from coast to desert.

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2. Carmen

Contemporary Colombian$$$$El Poblado

The El Poblado restaurant opened in 2009 by Carmen Ángel and Rob Pevitts, serving contemporary dishes built on Colombia's biodiversity, with a tasting menu and a creative bar.

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3. Celele

Contemporary Caribbean cuisine$$$$Getsemaní

Chef Jaime Rodríguez's acclaimed Getsemaní restaurant, reinterpreting the produce and traditions of Colombia's Caribbean region; No. 48 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025.

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4. Central

Contemporary Peruvian tasting menu$$$$Barranco

Virgilio Martínez and Pía León's tasting-menu restaurant in Barranco, named the world's best restaurant in 2023, built around ingredients from Peru's coast, Andes and Amazon.

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5. Don Julio

Argentine parrilla (steakhouse)$$$$Palermo Viejo

Palermo's celebrated parrilla, holder of a Michelin star and Green Star, serving dry-aged Angus and Hereford beef from a cellar-backed corner house.

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6. El Chato

Contemporary Colombian$$$$Chapinero Alto

Álvaro Clavijo's contemporary Colombian restaurant in Chapinero Alto, opened in 2017 and named No. 1 on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025.

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7. MIL Centro

Andean tasting menu$$$$Moray, Maras

Virgilio Martínez's restaurant and research centre beside the Moray terraces, serving a lunch tasting menu of Andean ingredients at around 3,600 metres.

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8. Rancho Português

Portuguese$$$Ipanema

An Ipanema Portuguese restaurant opened in 2014, known for 17 salt-cod dishes in sharing portions and named the city's best Portuguese restaurant in 2026.

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9. Tuju

Seasonal tasting menu$$$$Jardim Paulistano / Pinheiros

Ivan Ralston's seasonal tasting-menu restaurant, one of the first two in Brazil to win three Michelin stars, with menus that change four times a year.

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10. Ambrosía

Contemporary seasonal cooking$$$Vitacura

Carolina Bazán's Vitacura restaurant cooks a constantly changing seasonal menu from produce chosen each week at La Vega, with a wine list of small and natural producers.

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11. Carmen

Contemporary Colombian cuisine$$$$Ciudad Amurallada

A refined restaurant in a historic house on Calle del Santísimo, serving contemporary cooking inspired by Colombia's biodiversity and Caribbean produce, with craft cocktails.

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12. Elcielo Medellín

Colombian tasting menu$$$$El Poblado

Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos's flagship in his home city, serving multi-course tasting menus inspired by Colombian biodiversity inside the Michelin Key-rated Elcielo Hotel in El Poblado.

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13. Evvai

Italian-Brazilian tasting menu$$$$Jardim Paulistano

Chef Luiz Filipe Souza's three-Michelin-star restaurant, serving a single Oriundi tasting menu that explores the meeting of Italian and Brazilian cooking.

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14. Leo

Colombian biodiversity tasting menu$$$$Chapinero Alto

Leonor Espinosa's fine-dining restaurant in Chapinero Alto, built around a tasting journey through the cultures and biomes of Colombia.

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15. Maido

Nikkei tasting menu$$$$Miraflores

Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei restaurant in Miraflores, ranked first on The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2025, serving a 12-course tasting menu that blends Peru and Japan.

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16. Mauka by Pía León

Contemporary Andean cuisine$$$$San Blas

Chef Pía León's restaurant inside Palacio Nazarenas, celebrating Peru's farmers and landscapes with native grains, trout, alpaca and Sacred Valley herbs.

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17. Oro

Creative Brazilian cooking over fire$$$$Leblon

Felipe Bronze's two-Michelin-star restaurant a block from Leblon beach, where fire is the heart of creative menus rooted in Brazilian cooking.

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18. Pizzería Güerrín

Buenos Aires pizzeria$San Nicolás

A pizzeria on Avenida Corrientes founded in 1932 by Genoese immigrants, famous for thick pizza al molde and open until late every night.

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19. Chicha por Gastón Acurio

Regional Peruvian cuisine$$$Plaza Regocijo

Gastón Acurio's Cusco restaurant on Plaza Regocijo, reinterpreting regional dishes such as adobo, trout ceviche and alpaca, with an open kitchen and pisco bar.

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20. D.O.M.

Contemporary Brazilian$$$$Jardins

Alex Atala's restaurant in Jardins, open since 1999 and the first in Brazil to win two Michelin stars, built around Amazonian and other native Brazilian ingredients.

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