Restaurants

Bolivian Breakfast

Most hotels in Bolivia serve eggs and toast for breakfast. But if you want to feel like a local, you really should be eating salteñas (either chicken or beef, spiced with onions and raisins and wrapped up in a doughy pastry shell). True salteña eaters buy their breakfast from vendors on the streets, but if you're a bit squeamish about eating food from street vendors, not to worry: Al Pazzo Salteñas, Capitán Revelo 2019 (at the corner of Calle Goytia), is a tiny little storefront that sells nothing but salteñas. Once you place your order, the owner picks up a phone and calls her kitchen. Her workers -- who have perfected her grandmother's recipe -- will make your salteñas to order. Remember, salteñas are served only for breakfast, so this place closes down around 1pm. The Pastelería La Regina, right below the Restaurant Surucachi at Av. 16 de Julio 1598, also serves a mean salteña.