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Where to eat Barbecue food in La Serena: The Best Restaurants and Bars
Reviews on Barbecue food in La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile including Donde el Guaton, Restaurante Martin Fierro, Fogon Del Mar, Sabor a Campo Restaurant, Restaurante Casona Del 900
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1. Donde el Guaton
Overall Ratings
4 based on 273 reviews
Comida Chilena bien Chilena - Country style Chilean food. Estimados clientes: Nuestro Restaurante se ha dedicado por más de 30 años a complacer a los exigentes degustadores de nuestra comida Chilena. Tenemos el agrado de ofrecerles una variada carta y Men
Reviewed By mitraveler16
In addition to grilled meat, they have very good traditional Chilean foods that we haven't found in other restaurants thus far. We enjoyed an excellent dinner of choclo (beef and corn casserole), fish and a large tomato and avocado salad. The restaurant is in a house from the 1840s, which has been we'll preserved and gives it a great atmosphere. The service is also attentive. It's well worth having a meal there when you're in La Serena.
2. Restaurante Martin Fierro
Overall Ratings
4 based on 201 reviews
Reviewed By CristianG3
We expected something very nice, accordingly to a previous visit. But now it wss somehow more basic.It works, but we got the impression it is cutting costs.......hence the experience
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3. Fogon Del Mar
Overall Ratings
4 based on 121 reviews
We are a restaurant dedicated to delivering new added values and obtaining the best experience, we are not perfect, but we work every day for many better services and quality. We have Smoking Terrace, access for the disabled, bathrooms for the disabled, d
Reviewed By Ben B
My wife and I went here on a Sunday during a three-day weekend. It was the last day we had together before she had to leave for a work trip. It was a sunny day and we wanted to have a nice lunch by the ocean, and, feeling a little adventurous (as such things go), we decided to try a new restaurant, El Fogon Del Mar.With a nice terrace with views to the sea and an outside brick oven, it seemed a nice place to eat. But for some reason, things started to go astray immediately. It seemed difficult for them to decide who was our waiter. And then once we ordered, the waitress began telling us one of our dishes would take twenty minutes longer to prepare than the other so we asked if we could have one first and then the other when it arrived. We would share. This seemed to confuse her, so we waited a long time before we finally flagged down another waiter and explained what we wanted. Then our order mysteriously arrived almost immediately.Also, we had to ask several times for our bread and it came without pebre. We asked for some pebre, they said the chef was making it now. It would come out as soon as it was ready. We asked again fifteen minutes later when the first round of food arrived, and got the same response. We never got the pebre. I doubt very much anyone was making pebre. This isn't that big of a deal, except that it makes you wonder about the restaurant. The first thing one should have in Chile at a restaurant is bread and pebre. It should come to you while you're still thinking about what to eat. Even the cheapest restaurants have this figured out. And Fogon del Mar is not cheap. So not having pebre was disappointing and having the waiters lie to us about it was frustrating. If you don't have pebre, just admit it. Never lie to your customers. It's extremely irritating. Our first shared platter was a ceviche de Reineta, and it was without a doubt, the highlight of the meal. The purple onions were sliced paper thin, the reineta was fresh and delicious, and the lemon juice was seasoned wonderfully. Things were really looking up. I was especially looking forward to the next dish because I am a lover of chicken and was looking forward to some nice, well-cooked pollo.Unfortunately, our second dish sealed our bad opinion of El Fogon del Mar. We ordered their appetizer special El Fogon. It is exceedingly ill conceived and not worth the exorbitant amount of money it costs. It advertises chicken, meat, french fries, shrimp, and calamari for close to 12,000 pesos. Not cheap. But it sounded good. What came was a small bowl of french fries with a few shrimp and calamari on top. They were cooked and seasoned well, but for 12,000 pesos, I would expect more. There were three shrimp, I think, and the same amount of calamari. The small bowl of french fries was done very well, but again, the serving size was lamentable. The meat was another clay bowl filled with chopped steak and sauteed peppers and onions. This was good but strange to eat. Whereas french fries and fried shrimp are finger foods, this had to be eaten with a fork or spoon. Again, there was not much to it. If there was bread served with it, there would not have been enough to make a sandwich with it. But above all, the most ill conceived part of the meal was the chicken. The chicken consisted of little bits of breast meat suspended in what I assume was mushroom soup. There were also mushrooms in this. There was no bread to spoon it on. I guess you're supposed to eat it like chicken mushroom soup. The taste was even worse than the conception. It really is a bad dish. It tastes as bland as it sounds and I ended up draining the mushroom soup and just eating the chicken, which wasn't very good either. It was such an extremely embarrassing dish, it made us wonder who on earth thought that was a good idea AND that it was worth nearly 12,000 pesos? Someone ate a spoonful of chicken and mushroom soup and pondered for a second and said, yeah, put THAT on the most expensive appetizer dish we have. And put our name to it. It's THAT good. That put us in a crisis of confidence.Here's the bottom line. El Fogon del Mar is not a bad restaurant. Some of the dishes are good while others are painfully mediocre. The service is not horrible, but it's also not very good. (No pebre? In Chile? On a three day weekend?) I just don't think El Fogon knows its business, and while it tries very hard to be fine food, it struggles to achieve mediocrity. In other areas of La Serena, this might be forgivable, but the prices are just the same as some of the best restaurants in the region, some of which are literally just next door! If you're in the area of the Caleta, spend your money at Tio Coco's or at Pica Mar Adentro. There you get outstanding service, exceptional food, and a feeling of joy and relaxation, all at the same, if not lower, cost than El Fogon del Mar. If you must try it out, please, don't encourage them. Avoid the Fogon appetizer.
4. Sabor a Campo Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 68 reviews
Somoa reconocidos por nuestra tremenda y rica Cocina y Parrilla Chilena. Más de 14 años cultivando la cocina chilena en la ciudad de La Serena, Chile.
Reviewed By David B
As mostly-vegetarians, we are not the target demographic of this restaurant, which specializes in fathomless mountains of meat. I reckon there were some vegetarian dishes whose names we did not recognize, but owing to our poor comprehension we stuck to the obvious: two salads and a âplato al pobre,â which consists of an order of French fries with caramelized onions and fried eggs. The fried eggs and French fries were fine, but the caramelized onions had a slightly off note. Given the richness of the nearby vegetable market in La Serena, the salads were surprisingly sparse. The salad of âseasonal greensâ was shredded cabbage, shredded iceberg lettuce, and chunks of tomato. The other salad, whose name I forget, consisted of hearts of palm, olives, and sliced avocado arrayed on a plate. Had these two items been sold as a single salad, I suppose it would have seemed more compelling, although Heather points out that the individual ingredients simply werenât that flavorful.What we did not realize at the time is that the beautiful Ruta de las Estrellas has many excellent roadside cafes and juice bars. Vegetarian or not, we recommend you hold out for one of these.Dear customer, first, sorry my English is not good. Second, we clearly are not a vegetarian option, our specialty is Chilean cuisine and unfortunately for a vegetarian, this is based on meat products. Another feature of the Chilean cuisine is its very hearty, Chilean likes to eat and sick. regret not being able to please them but we are not an option for vegetarians is why their criticism does not apply this time, but we respect it. Greetings.Estimado cliente, primero, lamento mi ingles, no es bueno. Segundo, claramente no somos una opción vegetariana, nuestra especialidad es la cocina chilena y desgraciadamente para un vegetariano, esta se basa en productos cárnicos. Otra caracterÃstica de la cocina chilena, son sus platos muy abundantes, al chileno le gusta comer y harto. Lamentamos no haber podido complacerlos pero no somos una opción para vegetarianos, es por eso que su crÃtica no aplicarÃa esta vez, pero la respetamos. Saludos.
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5. Restaurante Casona Del 900
Overall Ratings
3 based on 89 reviews
Reviewed By kickassbiker
We've been there many times, so far three tims this summer, and I can say that it is the best Restaurant in Downtown La Serena, I recommend La Plateada al Jugo con Papas Campesinas. Piscos Sours are very good too, depends on who's is mixing them but in general very good, a good selection of red wines as well. The gilrs that run the show are very kind, specially the ones that have been there for a while, the new ones might need a little work, just try to get an experienced one, you can tell by the uniforms or just can just ask.
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