by Gonzalo Mena
For those of you who have already visited Valparaíso, you know that aside from the
culture and sightseeing, there is one other thing that draws tourists and residents alike to its small venues and shops: the food! Valparaíso is a a culinary hotspot for completos and chorrillanas, anticuchos from street vendors, coffee places with scented beverages, and restaurants and boutiques with new culinary inventions mixedwith traditional Chilean cooking. What’s not to like?
Valparaíso has even more good news for Chilean food lovers. The city will host the 5th Annual Once Completa Contest, in honor of the Chilean answer for dinner.
The competition will determine which venue in the city serves the best once. Café del Jardín will defend its title against six new contenders on this occasion, offering their visitors the best possible once combinations. Sandwiches, coffees, eggs, emapandas, manjar and other goodies can be found for CLP$4000 each. This is your chance to try out all those places you’ve been thinking of visiting, and of course, enjoy one of Chile’s most respected traditions.
The follow venues will participate. See you there!
Plan
Café del Puerto (Embrujados)
Cochrane 823, Valparaíso
Hours: Monday- Friday, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Traditional once:
Hot chocolate with vanilla, tea or coffee
Natural juice of the day
Sandwich: chicken with pepper or avocado
Choice of pancake, chocolate or cherry
One side: Coconut anjar coco, nut manjar, traditional manjar
Cerro Alegre
Café del Jardín
Urriola 564, Valparaíso
Hours: Sunday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 9:00 a.m.-Midnight
Traditional once:
Coffee or tea, milk optional
Cold mate, can come hot
Scrambled eggs with bacon
Assortment of goat cheese, tomato, oregano and olive oil
Basket of bread (pan amasado) and cookies
Fig jelly with nuts
House desserts: Brazilian chocolate cake, fruit mousse and condensed milk pudding
Cerro Concepción
Restobar Bijoux
Abtao 561, Valparaíso
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.-11 p.m. Tuesday, Sunday, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
Traditional once:
Loose-leaf tea, coffee, hot chocolate
Natural juice from seasonal fruit
Two homemade dinner rolls
Cheese and spinach omelette
House butter and jelly
Nut and anise cake with rosemary
Cerro Concepción
Café Brighton
Paseo Atkinson 151, Valparaíso Hours: Monday-Thursday, Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-midnight, Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 a.m.
Traditional once:
Tea or coffee with milk
Homemade cake
Fig empanada
Toast
Eggs with ham
Sopaipillas pasadas
Cerro Concepción
Café con Letras
Almirante Montt 316, Valparaíso
Hours: Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-10:00 p.m., Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Traditional once:
Hot chocolate, tea or coffee (with milk or espresso)
House juice
Basket with sweet bread and salty bread and two scones
Side of quince jelly, cheese and butter
Cerro Concepción
Café de Iris
Paseo Atkinson 110, Valparaíso
Hours: Monday-Sunday, 4:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Traditional once:
Specialty coffee
Porteñitos
Sandwich “Iris”
Merengue chirimoya cake
Cerro Concepción
Sabor Color
Templeman 561, Valparaíso
Hours: Monday-Sunday, 5:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Traditional once:
Tea with milk or coffee with milk
Juice of the day
Bread (pan amasado) with avocado
Chilean cake
Chirimoya ice cream
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