Bogotá Foodways

Bogotá, D.C.

City

The capital at 2,600 m on the Sabana, cold and rainy, on the territory of the MUISCA. Its own food: AJIACO SANTAFEREÑO; CHANGUA, the milk-and-scallion breakfast soup with an egg dropped in and stale bread; puchero; the CHOCOLATE SANTAFEREÑO drunk with a lump of fresh cheese dropped in to melt; almojábanas and pandeyuca; the tamal santafereño on Sunday; and the fritanga. Beyond the local: Bogotá is where every Colombian region eats, so the city holds Paisa, costeño, llanero, Pacific and Nariñense restaurants, plus the largest immigrant and Venezuelan food scene in the country and the plazas de mercado — Paloquemao above all.