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Top food to try in Bogotá

6 dishes to eat in Bogotá, what is in them, and where they belong.

Last updated 2026-08-08

1. Ajiaco

Ajiaco
Photo: Mauricio Giraldo from Bogotá, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source

A Bogotá chicken and potato soup with three potato varieties, corn and the herb guascas, with cream and capers.

2. Bandeja paisa

Bandeja paisa
Photo: Edgar Zuniga Jr. · CC BY 2.0 · source

A platter of beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, egg, avocado and plantain. From Antioquia, eaten everywhere.

3. Arepas

Arepas
Photo: Peter Angritt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Grilled corn cakes, split and filled or eaten plain with cheese and butter.

4. Exotic fruit

Exotic fruit
Photo: Surukuku - (Nelson Ramos-Lopes) · CC BY 3.0 · source

Lulo, granadilla, feijoa, curuba, mamoncillo — a range that exists almost nowhere else at this price.

5. Chocolate santafereño

Chocolate santafereño
Photo: Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Hot chocolate with a piece of fresh cheese dropped in to melt. Genuinely local, and better than it sounds.

6. Empanadas with ají

Empanadas with ají
Photo: young shanahan · CC BY 2.0 · source

Fried corn-dough turnovers with potato and meat, dipped in a fresh chilli and coriander sauce.

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