Tours and Activities:
The Art of Fine Food in Pucón
Mónica Pons Eduardo EpifanioA fine meal is the perfect complement for an excursion and makes the next more enticing. In Pucón, the most demanding palates will find top notch gastronomy.
Downtown Pucón offers a wide range of delightful venues for lunch and dinner. Two restaurants propose gourmet dishes: the first specializes in grilled meat while the second in seafood, pasta and pizza.
La Maga
Grilled meat, Uruguayan style, is served in a casual atmosphere. Its owners moved from the Eastern Republic of Uruguay several years ago bringing their own way of grilling meat with them. This ample, bright restaurant has charming tables and a typical counter which can be seen from the street.
The highlight of its varied menu is beef, grilled over wood fires catering to the customer’s palate. Uruguayan parrillada is really complete, including asado, sausage, black pudding, steak and tenderloin and chicken brochettes. Filet mignon, short ribs and tenderloin steak, sweetbread, chicken and salmon all smoke as they are brought to the table. Refined palates will surely enjoy cuts marinated in aromatic spices such as Dijon mustard, capers or bacon.
We recommend an appetizer while waiting for La Maga bife de chorizo (top sirloin steak) to be grilled to perfection. The restaurant’s cellar is stocked with a selection of the best Chilean wine.
Having a seal of approval, being run by its owners and watching the chefs prepare a meal make customers feel at home at La Maga .
Restaurante Buonatesta
Owing to its Italian origin, it offers great pasta al dente and a wide choice of pizza toppings. However, it also serves charcoal grilled meat and fish. Each of the two venues, on the same street, has its own décor and menu.
Eating at the tables on the sidewalk is a great option when the weather is good. Otherwise, customers will find the spacious, well-decorated restaurants quite pleasing. The wide choice of seafood needs no recommendation. Clams au gratin, shrimp pasties and salmon brochettes are but a few of the many delicious dishes on the menu whose ingredients arrive fresh from the Pacific. Wines from Chilean vineyards are the perfect pairing.
The simpler, extremely cozy and bright Buonatesta is just a block away. Italian pasta and pizza with a variety of toppings are on the menu. Whether lasagna, gnocchi, ravioli or a large mozzarella pizza are ordered, a hearty helping of homemade food is guaranteed. Craft beer, good Chilean wine or the classical pisco sour are all good complements.
These are merely three of the many options to share delicious food with family or friends in Pucón.
Contact
La Maga
Tel: +56 45-2444277
Buonatesta
Tel: +56 45-2443542
Buonatesta
Tel: +56 45-2443542
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