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How to find good Colombian food

Colombian food is regional to a degree that surprises people: the coast eats coconut rice and fried fish, Bogotá eats a chicken and potato soup with capers and cream, and Medellín eats a platter with nine components and a fried egg on top.

What separates a good one from a bad one

Arepas made there — Colombian arepas are thinner and less stuffed than Venezuelan ones, often griddled and topped rather than split. Made fresh they are soft inside.
Three potatoes in the ajiaco — The Bogotá soup depends on using several potato varieties, one of which dissolves to thicken it. One potato means a shortcut.
Guascas — The herb that makes ajiaco taste like ajiaco. Hard to source and its presence signals a serious kitchen.
A bandeja paisa that is genuinely excessive — Beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, morcilla, steak, plantain, avocado, arepa and a fried egg. If it looks reasonable, something is missing.
Fresh juices — Lulo, maracuyá, guanábana, mora. A long fruit-juice list is standard and its absence is notable.

What to order

Bandeja paisa — Once. Bring an appetite and expect to fail.
Ajiaco santafereño — Chicken and potato soup with corn, capers and cream. The best thing on most Colombian menus.
Arepa de choclo — Sweet corn arepa with cheese. Different from the plain ones and worth ordering separately.
Sancocho — Weekend stew, regionally variable, always substantial.
Lulo juice — A citrus you will not have had. Ask for it in water rather than milk the first time.

How Savor Scout looks for it

Colombian searches read for regional dish names and for bakery and juice-bar language, since a lot of Colombian food is sold from panaderías rather than restaurants. Ajiaco and guascas mentions are treated as strong signals of a kitchen cooking the Bogotá tradition rather than a general Latin menu.

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