Mafe & Stef City Guide 🍔🍸🎉🌇
Food Favs🤤
Best of local gastronomy!
Stunning place with 100/10 pasta, protein & cocktails inspired in an Italian city 🤌🏼 Cool luxury vibes, perfect for a date or friends! Live music on weekends. Everything is exquisite. Personal fave: Pistachio Straciatella 🍝
Restaurante Battuto
Stunning place with 100/10 pasta, protein & cocktails inspired in an Italian city 🤌🏼 Cool luxury vibes, perfect for a date or friends! Live music on weekends. Everything is exquisite. Personal fave: Pistachio Straciatella 🍝
This gastrobar has NO bad plate😍 Everything is just EXQUISITE and a pleasure to eat. Top cuisine, but with affordable prices! Try: Their burguer with Philadelphia cheese won Best Burguer In Town! And their version of the Mac n Cheese is something to die for. 🤤 The Tataki Tuna is incredible also.
Rudo Cocina Irreverente
This gastrobar has NO bad plate😍 Everything is just EXQUISITE and a pleasure to eat. Top cuisine, but with affordable prices! Try: Their burguer with Philadelphia cheese won Best Burguer In Town! And their version of the Mac n Cheese is something to die for. 🤤 The Tataki Tuna is incredible also.
Experience a taste of the Amazon Jungle! From sushi, to steaks, delicious rices and my personal fav: tataki tuna! Music, sometimes they have live dancing and cool mood!
Amazónica
Experience a taste of the Amazon Jungle! From sushi, to steaks, delicious rices and my personal fav: tataki tuna! Music, sometimes they have live dancing and cool mood!
Artisan Pasta! 😍🍝 Glass kitchen so you can see the whole preparing process and the dishes are heavenly! Their sauces are unique.
Buona Pasta
Artisan Pasta! 😍🍝 Glass kitchen so you can see the whole preparing process and the dishes are heavenly! Their sauces are unique.
In Bucaramanga, we eat our burgers and fries with tartara sauce and pineapple jam. Try it together and you’ll see!
Extra tip: ask for bacon jam + chicken tartara in your burguer! 👌🏼 The place is colorful, lively, full of art! And even has a cool rooftop 🌇🍸🍔
La Gloriosa Hamburguesería | Cabecera
53-12 Carrera 35In Bucaramanga, we eat our burgers and fries with tartara sauce and pineapple jam. Try it together and you’ll see!
Extra tip: ask for bacon jam + chicken tartara in your burguer! 👌🏼 The place is colorful, lively, full of art! And even has a cool rooftop 🌇🍸🍔
STELLA Carnes y Vinos
54-32 Cra. 36Chicken Box Rotisserie
55-124 Cra. 35aFor chicken lovers!!! 😍
A fancy Italian restaurant with exquisite pasta & steaks🤌🏼 And don’t leave without the official dessert: Esfera de chocolate! A giant chocolate ball that Melts when they pour hot chocolate fudge, revealing a delicious brownie with some more chocolates and strawberries!!! Unforgettable.
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Mia Nonna
#52 - 97 Cra. 35A fancy Italian restaurant with exquisite pasta & steaks🤌🏼 And don’t leave without the official dessert: Esfera de chocolate! A giant chocolate ball that Melts when they pour hot chocolate fudge, revealing a delicious brownie with some more chocolates and strawberries!!! Unforgettable.
Amaaazing Korean food. Enjoy the experience of sitting barefoot to share delicious plates! The ramen is awesome and there’s a slow cooked pork to die for!!!
Bobby & Friends
Amaaazing Korean food. Enjoy the experience of sitting barefoot to share delicious plates! The ramen is awesome and there’s a slow cooked pork to die for!!!
Want something lighter? This place has the best and biggest (and cheapest) salads of the city. We enjoy a lot the Mexican one. Caesar and Zuggar are also good. Actually, all of them 😂 Also, try the tomato & cheese soup, it’ll change your life! Pizzas are awesome too!!! (Our personal favs Samba and Barbacoa). Lunch combos are a great deal!!!
Pepper Gourmet
#33 - 31 Calle 42Want something lighter? This place has the best and biggest (and cheapest) salads of the city. We enjoy a lot the Mexican one. Caesar and Zuggar are also good. Actually, all of them 😂 Also, try the tomato & cheese soup, it’ll change your life! Pizzas are awesome too!!! (Our personal favs Samba and Barbacoa). Lunch combos are a great deal!!!
Not your typical hot dog!!! Our fave? Golden retriever. Yes, the hot dogs have breed names🤪 The burguers are FABULOUS too!!! There are many Jackos in the city, best one for the views: Jackos Ruitoque. Only by prior reservation.
Jacko's
52-114 Carrera 37Not your typical hot dog!!! Our fave? Golden retriever. Yes, the hot dogs have breed names🤪 The burguers are FABULOUS too!!! There are many Jackos in the city, best one for the views: Jackos Ruitoque. Only by prior reservation.
Near Cañaveral. Only for wild burger eaters with an open mind! Try the special of the week, they are always creating new ones with the most crazy and delicious ingredients!
Homies Artesanal
26 24 Carrera 11Near Cañaveral. Only for wild burger eaters with an open mind! Try the special of the week, they are always creating new ones with the most crazy and delicious ingredients!
Inside Cacique shopping mall, Maki has great rolls for sushi lovers. Get around the mall too! Has a great offer of shops, cinema and a pretty terrace in the last floor.
Maki Sushi Wok Teppanyaki
34-99 Transversal 93Inside Cacique shopping mall, Maki has great rolls for sushi lovers. Get around the mall too! Has a great offer of shops, cinema and a pretty terrace in the last floor.
BarTaco Taqueria
#52-25 Carrera 35aDon’t miss the birria quesadilla 🤩
The burrata pizza is INCREDIBLE😍 The panzerottis are called panettos and are great too. Pasta is delicious as well!!! Beautiful cozy place 💕
Venetto
47-24 Cra 29The burrata pizza is INCREDIBLE😍 The panzerottis are called panettos and are great too. Pasta is delicious as well!!! Beautiful cozy place 💕
SIMONA Pizzeria
53-51 Cra. 37Cozy place, pizza and cocktails!!!
On the road, 1 hr apart from Bucaramanga (San Gil- Bucaramanga road) All the food is amazing!!!! Typical santanderean food, even the burgers are great!!! Generous, delicious plates with a spectacular view of the canyon!!!
Rincón del Chicamocha
On the road, 1 hr apart from Bucaramanga (San Gil- Bucaramanga road) All the food is amazing!!!! Typical santanderean food, even the burgers are great!!! Generous, delicious plates with a spectacular view of the canyon!!!
Great place to try typical food from Santander!!! Try cabrito, carne oreada, caldo de costilla and calentao, empanadas are also delicious!!!
Chiflas
29-15 Carrera 33aGreat place to try typical food from Santander!!! Try cabrito, carne oreada, caldo de costilla and calentao, empanadas are also delicious!!!
Cocktails kinda mood 🍸
Good cocktails and music!
Oh, The views of this bar!!! Visit at sunset, The Bucayba sky bar of the Holiday Inn Hotel is breathtaking! Perfect for friends or a date! Or a drink for yourself with inspiring views. Open for everybody, not only guests of the hotel.
Holiday Inn Bucaramanga Cacique
Oh, The views of this bar!!! Visit at sunset, The Bucayba sky bar of the Holiday Inn Hotel is breathtaking! Perfect for friends or a date! Or a drink for yourself with inspiring views. Open for everybody, not only guests of the hotel.
Hidden treasure! It’s a bar inside a wine cellar. The store is called bartending, it works also as a liquor store but ask for the hidden bar: Five Points Speakeasy
BARTENDING LIQUOR STORE
46-53 Carrera 35aHidden treasure! It’s a bar inside a wine cellar. The store is called bartending, it works also as a liquor store but ask for the hidden bar: Five Points Speakeasy
Gorgeous luxury bar. Often has live music! Located in the most expensive hotel of the city “Punta Diamante” with incredible views.
IF Ruitoque
Gorgeous luxury bar. Often has live music! Located in the most expensive hotel of the city “Punta Diamante” with incredible views.
Peregrina gastrobar is beautiful!!! Amazing views, great cocktails and food from the heights! The golden hour hits just right there.
Sonesta Hotel Bucaramanga
Peregrina gastrobar is beautiful!!! Amazing views, great cocktails and food from the heights! The golden hour hits just right there.
Cafés with great coffee 🇨🇴☕️
Cozy and green coffee spot. 🍃 The coffee is awesome, we also buy it to prepare it at home.
Has also a great hostal, you can visit it and play ping pong or games. Every coffee preparation is wonderful and they talk you through the process!
Bajo Sombra Coffee shop
54-109 Carrera 35Cozy and green coffee spot. 🍃 The coffee is awesome, we also buy it to prepare it at home.
Has also a great hostal, you can visit it and play ping pong or games. Every coffee preparation is wonderful and they talk you through the process!
You GOTTA try the empanadas. Our fave ones are Ricotta cheese or Shrimp. Coffee is amazing!!!
Cafetopía
34-46 Calle 46You GOTTA try the empanadas. Our fave ones are Ricotta cheese or Shrimp. Coffee is amazing!!!
From breakfast, to brunch, to lunch, to a coffee break, to dinner - this place is one of our favorites! It’s a no brainer in terms of croissants and pastry. And the burgers are a YES!!!
PANARTE Boutique de Pan
#48-58 Carrera 40From breakfast, to brunch, to lunch, to a coffee break, to dinner - this place is one of our favorites! It’s a no brainer in terms of croissants and pastry. And the burgers are a YES!!!
Perfect for a quick caffeine break if walking around Cabecera. Also… try the carrot cake ✨
Forestal - Café Artesanal | Edificio Ecopetrol
28-40 Calle 48Perfect for a quick caffeine break if walking around Cabecera. Also… try the carrot cake ✨
Sweet cravings 🧁🍦🍭
The ice cream here is yogurt based and DELICIOUS. And the best is: it’s sugar free!!! Banana melt is our fave. 🍌 Their cheesecake is a must too. There are many Yogur around the city but the prettiest one is the one in Giron.
LA YOGUR
34-99 Transversal 93The ice cream here is yogurt based and DELICIOUS. And the best is: it’s sugar free!!! Banana melt is our fave. 🍌 Their cheesecake is a must too. There are many Yogur around the city but the prettiest one is the one in Giron.
Incredible and different donuts! All of them are amazing. Créeme brûlée, nutella, milo. Great for brunching too!
Snob Premium Donuts
35a-33 Cl. 54Incredible and different donuts! All of them are amazing. Créeme brûlée, nutella, milo. Great for brunching too!
Most delicious tres leches ever: the one and only GENOVESA!!! You can’t stop eating it, no joke. Soft, moist, delicious texture. Great place also for getting big cakes for birthdays.
Don Jacobo Postres y Ponqués
Most delicious tres leches ever: the one and only GENOVESA!!! You can’t stop eating it, no joke. Soft, moist, delicious texture. Great place also for getting big cakes for birthdays.
Kakahuat
Close to you and delicious!
Party🎉
Every night a different show! Different genres, artists, djs, performances, look them up on insta to check their shows: @municipal.musicaviva
Municipal - Música Viva
#48 - 56 Carrera 35Every night a different show! Different genres, artists, djs, performances, look them up on insta to check their shows: @municipal.musicaviva
Great party, cool place, they bring artists often! From Tremenda, the following blocks are the most lively ones in the city’s night life!
Tremenda Disco
Great party, cool place, they bring artists often! From Tremenda, the following blocks are the most lively ones in the city’s night life!
Vintrash Bar
35A-33 Cl. 49Great music, cool vibes! ❤️🏳️🌈
LA CHISMOSA BUCARAMANGA
27-59 Calle 64A night club styled like a traditional Colombian town
Sightseeing
Catch a sunset up here! Stunning of the city, cocktails, different restaurants for all cravings, even sweet. Pretty full on sundays.
Palonegro Ecoparque
Catch a sunset up here! Stunning of the city, cocktails, different restaurants for all cravings, even sweet. Pretty full on sundays.
A must! Ride at night to see the lights by the longest hanging bridge in South America!!!
Reeser Str. 106, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Γερμανία
A must! Ride at night to see the lights by the longest hanging bridge in South America!!!
Beautiful and most luxury neighborhood of the city on a mountain top, a fancy hotel and a golf club. Only way to enter there without being a guest of the Hotel Punta Diamante or actually living there, is having a reservation in any of the restaurants there: Inti (Peruvian), If (chef’s courts menu), Jackos, Mamba (fast food), Wasabi (Sushi).
Ruitoque Golf Country Club
Beautiful and most luxury neighborhood of the city on a mountain top, a fancy hotel and a golf club. Only way to enter there without being a guest of the Hotel Punta Diamante or actually living there, is having a reservation in any of the restaurants there: Inti (Peruvian), If (chef’s courts menu), Jackos, Mamba (fast food), Wasabi (Sushi).
Girón is a magical little town 20 minutes away from Bucaramanga, close to the airport, where seems like time stopped and got caught frozen in time. Try in the Peralta Park the maracumix, a local dessert with ice cream inside a real passion fruit (maracuyá) and condensed milk. Visit also Parque de las Nieves and parque principal!
Parque peralta
Carrera 28Girón is a magical little town 20 minutes away from Bucaramanga, close to the airport, where seems like time stopped and got caught frozen in time. Try in the Peralta Park the maracumix, a local dessert with ice cream inside a real passion fruit (maracuyá) and condensed milk. Visit also Parque de las Nieves and parque principal!
Great for taking a morning walk or sweat! Amazing views, exotic trees and plants. Free entrance, no pets allowed.
La Flora Ecological Park
Great for taking a morning walk or sweat! Amazing views, exotic trees and plants. Free entrance, no pets allowed.
Metropolitano Bosque Encantado Park
219 Carrera 41Beautiful park for taking a walk!!! Pets allowed, free entrance.
Cultural 🎭
A breathetaking historical theater in the center of the city. Check their program at @teatrosantanderbga (Insta) or their official website.
Teatro Santander
# 18 – 60 Cl. 33A breathetaking historical theater in the center of the city. Check their program at @teatrosantanderbga (Insta) or their official website.
Don’t forget to check their socials to see what events are hosting by the time you visit!
Centro Cultural del Oriente
31 - 73 Cra. 19Don’t forget to check their socials to see what events are hosting by the time you visit!