Food and Drink
Cuisine in La Paz is both native Bolivian and international. Try all the local dishes, and try a snack of salteño, or tucumano, empanada-like pasties originating in Argentina.
Order the special of the day which is usually reasonable in cost and consists of soup, entree and dessert, sometimes with an added salad and coffee. You'll probably have one of the foods mentioned in these
Recipes from Bolivia. Lunch, or almuerzo,
is the main meal of the day, followed by a light dinner with anticuchos, or skewered beef hearts as a favored appetizer.
In addition to tea, coffee and maté, paceños drink soft drinks, Paceña Beer, chicha in several forms, such as
Chicha de mani, and for breakfast, a sweetened corn and cinnamon drink called api.
Bolivian wines aren't as good or as popular as Chilean and Argentine wines, but
do try them.
Try a chuflay cocktail, a mix of 7Up, lemon and singani, a distillled grape liquor.
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