Meet the Foodie Heroes of Medellin.
A selection of the healthiest local foodie experiences in Medellin, Colombia. Local businesses with close links to local farmers, who treat their suppliers well and worry about food waste. If you need help planning your foodie travels contact one of our team.
Medellin Foodie Experiences.
Making our food healthy again is one of the principal ways we can restore our relationship with the planet. This Is Travel works with local businesses that are committed to strengthening the food chain in Colombia. As well as paying fair trade prices to their suppliers and taking care of their staff, these businesses are focused on improving the lives of local farmers, restoring soil quality by buying organic produce and responsibly managing their food and packaging waste in the process.
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20Mission Cerveza & Gastropub
Since 2019, 20Mission Cerveza has become one of the most popular bars in Medellin. Located in an expansive warehouse in barrio Manila, this giant gastropub and craft brewery has a creative co-working as one of the reasons for their unstoppable success.
Metropole Beer Lab
Serving up a superb variety of west coast pale ales and session IPAs for a hipster crowd near Parque Poblado, Metropole Beer Lab has been changed the craft brew game in Medellin.
Cerveceria Maestre
Defined as a Brew Pub, this petite purveyor of craft brew happiness in the heart of Poblado sits on a little side street between Calle 10 and Calle 10a and has been promoting a new way to drink beer since 2017.
Cerveceria Libre
One of the pioneering micro-breweries in Medellin, Cerveceria Libre, has been brewing its way into the hearts of Medellin’s craft beer fans since 2014. Its built a strong stable of IPAs since it hit the scene with its beers debut, Libre IPA, Libre Pasion, and Libre Avellana.
The Corner Bar Medellin
The big names from Europe’s beer powerhouse and a broad selection of the best local brews are available in The Corner Bar Medellin, a tiny temple to craft brewing from all over the world, serving up a spectacular selection of up and coming craft beers from the US.
Bipolar Brewing Co
Bipolar Brewing Co is a top-notch micro-brewery with a regular rotation of pale ales. They have created a convenient craft brewpub crawl with 20Mission in Barrio Manila, ideal for beer lovers who go crazy with their 15 taps of the best craft beer in Medellin.
Tres Cordilleras
Tres Cordilleras is the enormous pride for the city’s beer lovers in Medellin. This pioneer in the Colombian craft brew market has become one of the most successful “artesanal” brewers in an industry-led by Bogotá Beer Company (BBC), Colombia’s biggest “little” brewery.
Carmen Restaurante
Carmen’s sophisticated tasting menu, sensational collection of craft cocktails, and a devilish attention to detail have helped this El Poblado culinary landmark hold off an army of upstarts for the title of the best restaurant in Medellin for more than a decade.
Oci.Mde
Born in 2013, this culinary icon from Medellin serves up comfort food that’s slow-cooked to perfection in an award-winning architectural setting at the upper end of Provenza’s best-tasting street.
ElCielo Medellin
ElCielo’s creator-in-chief, Juan Manuel Barrientos, was the first to put Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià-style molecular tricks on the menu in Medellin, when he unleashed his heavenly fine-dining experience on El Poblado in 2006.
La Provincia
La Provincia is where the heavyweight cheque books of Medellin’s old money go-to power lunch and to break bread with their loved ones on special occasions.
Ajiacos y Mondongos
It’s been this way since 1991 with little changing in the interim. An obligatory pitstop for out-of-town celebrities when they’re in Medellin, this ultra-traditional eatery close to Parque Poblado offers the best ajiaco in town.
Mondongo’s
This culinary landmark has two incredibly popular venues on two of the most emblematic streets in Medellin, La 10 and La 70 in Poblado and Laureles. Both are brilliant for observing the ultra-traditional paisa families and couples in their natural habitat.
Restaurante Hatoviejo
It’s not always great when a restaurant becomes a tourist attraction but the city’s most famous traditional Colombian restaurant, Restaurante Hatoviejo, hasn’t let fame go to its head and continues to do what it has been doing so well since it first opened in 1982.
Restaurante Justo
Veganism has taken to the next level for plant-based practitioners that have had enough laboring over their lentils and want to pick up some new tricks from celebrated chef Anthony Rincon.
Kaime Restaurante
Since it opened it has done more than any other restaurant to move the needle in the right direction for vegan and vegetarian food in Medellin.
Mija Artesanal
Owing to its remote location, the place gets little footfall but it’s a little gem that’s well worth the trek up the hill. Enjoy world-class sourdough sandwiches, deli-style quiches, and artesanal soups that will warm your soul.
Lenteja Express
Lenteja Express isn’t trying too hard to be anything other than a down-to-earth plant-based restaurant delivering delicious lentil, chickpea, or quinoa burgers on vegan burger buns.
Verdeo
Found in the bohemian Manila neighborhood, Verdeo has been fine-tuning its particular brand of superior vegetarian and vegan fare for almost a decade.
Pergamino
Designed to trap tourists and digital nomads for the day, the first store opened in 2013 with a winning formula of high-speed internet, savvy branding, stylish interiors, and an airy terrace by architects, and cappuccinos, and americanos that are a cut above, of course.
Rituales Cafe
Established to support 40 families in La Sierra, one of the most troubled areas on the edge of the city, Rituales, Rituales has been roasting its award-winning Paraiso brew in situ, since 2017.
Café Velvet Medellin
Cafe Velvet Medellin occupies the ground floor of Medellin’s first experiment with co-working making it a popular meeting place for some of the city’s most creative types.
Hija Mia Coffee Roasters
Roasted on-site, Hija Mia’s Rebelde blend, uses beans of the highly sought after Caturra and Bourbon varieties from farms in Santa Maria in the department of Huila.
Café Revolución
A bulwark of Medellin’s coffee scene since 2014, Café Revolución now has two branches in Laureles serving coffee and tasty treats that attracts a blend of locals and tourists that’s as uplifting as an espresso from one of their freshly roasted bag of beans.
Urbania
You get coffee with a conscience when you charge up at one of Urbania’s three venues in Poblado and Envigado. Urbania’s founder, Ricardo Restrepo, is passionate about his caffeine fuelled mission to bring peace to Colombia through brewing great coffee.
Al Alma
Translating as ‘straight to the soul’, Al Alma is a tasty venue with a heartfelt following amongst locals that enjoy their cappuccino with a slice of cake.
Pergamino
Translating as ‘straight to the soul’, Al Alma is a tasty venue with a heartfelt following amongst locals that enjoy their cappuccino with a slice of cake.