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Eating Out
Chile is filled with smaller restaurants that are perfect for those on tight budgets. Good quality food, in clean tasty eateries. How to choose? Go where the locals are...If there is a lively local crowd, chances are the food is good.
Typical dishes
One of the most popular dishes is the empanadas, a turnover filled with onion, raisins, olives and meat come baked or fried. Try Humitas, a corn pur wrapped in corn leaf. Try them all before you have a Choclo, a delicious pastel filled with ground beef, diced onion, chicken, hard-boiled eggs, raisins and olives. Bife A Lo Pobre consists of steak, two fried eggs, fried potatoes and onions. There are many steak houses that offer grilled steaks and sausages stews served with homemade bread cooked in mud ovens.
Seafood
Chile has wonderful seafood in Santiago, you can also find many great eateries in any of the costal villages. The Paila Marina serves popular seafood stews that insulates against the cold.
Drinks
Every country has a famous drink and some share one drink with several. Here it's the Pisco Sour. Made from lemon juice, sugar and ice. Another traditional drink is apple and grape Chicha. It's made of juice that is fermented and later heated in copper pans), drank mainly during the holidays. Chile is also known for their wines. From the north they are of excellent quality and inexpensive.
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