Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Medellín from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Medellín
These places give Medellín’s more ambitious dining side its clearest shape, with tasting menus, wine lists and chef-led kitchens.
Carmen is a Modern Colombian restaurant in Medellín with tasting menu and à la carte formats, a wine list, and sommelier-led drinks. Its Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in South America placements include #53 in 2026.
X.O. in El Poblado is built around a 10 to 15 course tasting menu that moves through Colombia’s regions and biodiversity. It has an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led drinks.
Boro in El Poblado is a research-led Colombian restaurant with both a la carte and tasting menu formats. Its wine list sits alongside a kitchen built around corn, masa, tubers, river fish, and tropical fruit.
These picks show Medellín’s range beyond tasting menus, from local bistro cooking to French service and long-running paisa food.
Sambombi Bistró Local in Provenza is a modern local bistro with a frequently changing menu, seasonal ingredients, and shareable dishes. It has a wine list and a calmer tone than much of the neighbourhood around it, with a compact bistro format built around Colombian produce.
Café Le Gris in Poblado is a contemporary French bistro with an extensive wine list and a wine program. The restaurant has 38 years of history, with buffet and à la carte formats.
Mondongo's in Poblado is an institution for traditional Colombian Paisa cuisine. Open since 1976, it focuses on mondongo, the region’s tripe stew, with a la carte and family-style service. The namesake dish is mondongo soup.
El Poblado is the main neighbourhood in our guide for wine lists. It holds 23 venues and includes X.O., Boro, and Mamba Negra. Provenza adds Sambombi Bistró Local, and Poblado adds Café Le Gris.
Medellín has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Carmen serves modern Colombian cuisine with tasting menu and à la carte formats, a wine list and sommelier-led service. X.O. in El Poblado holds The Best Chef One Knife (2025).
Carmen, X.O., and Boro are the tasting-menu restaurants in our Medellín guide. Carmen is in Medellín, while X.O. and Boro are in El Poblado. X.O. is the most explicitly structured, with a 10 to 15 course tasting menu, while Carmen and Boro also offer tasting menu formats.
Medellín has no Wine Spectator awards in our guide. Carmen, X.O., Boro, and Sambombi Bistró Local have wine lists. Carmen and X.O. also have extensive wine lists and sommelier-led service.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Medellín.
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Carmen sits in Medellín’s contemporary dining tier, where Colombian ingredients are treated through a more international restaurant language rather than a purely traditional one. Its repeat placement on Opinionated About Dining’s Top Restaurants in South America list, #37 in 2024 and #42 in 2023, gives it a clear external benchmark for travelers comparing Medellín’s higher-end tables.
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Sambombi Bistró Local gives Medellín’s ingredient-led dining scene a compact bistro expression: Colombian cooking filtered through weekly market change, hyperlocal sourcing, and a calmer Provenza mood than the neighborhood’s louder restaurant circuit. The appeal is not spectacle; it is the way a small-format dining room can make regional produce feel current without turning dinner into a lecture.
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A co-chef partnership between Mateo Ríos and Sebastián Marín, X.O. sits on Carrera 36 in El Poblado at the sharper end of Medellín's contemporary dining conversation. The kitchen draws on Colombian ingredients and technique within a format that positions the restaurant alongside the city's most ambitious modern tables, rather than its more casual neighbourhood spots.
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Positioned on Carrera 37 in El Poblado, 37 Park occupies a neighbourhood where Medellín's contemporary dining scene has consolidated over the past decade. The address places it inside a competitive block of ingredient-conscious kitchens, making it a useful reference point for understanding how the city's sourcing culture has evolved beyond the traditional locro and bandeja formats.
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On Calle 8 in Medellín, Ajiacos y Mondongos keeps faith with the two dishes that define Andean Colombian home cooking: the herb-dense chicken soup known as ajiaco and the slow-braised tripe stew mondongo. In a city increasingly oriented toward tasting menus and international references, this address functions as a reliable anchor for traditional paisa cooking at an accessible price point.
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Boro brings Medellín into Colombia’s regional tasting-menu conversation, with a Colombian format that spans the Pacific, Amazon, and Andes. The useful way to read it is through foundation ingredients and technique: corn, masa, tubers, river fish, tropical fruit, and regional memory handled as a contemporary dining structure rather than folkloric display.
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Café Le Gris sits inside Centro Comercial Oviedo, one of El Poblado's most established commercial anchors, placing it within easy reach of Medellín's densest concentration of mid-to-upper dining options. The café format signals a particular kind of ambition in Colombia's second city: ingredient-conscious, accessible in tone, and positioned where retail foot traffic meets a more considered eating culture.
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Cambalache Parrilla Argentina brings the Río de la Plata grilling tradition to El Poblado, Medellín's most concentrated dining corridor. The format follows the Argentine parrilla playbook: wood or charcoal fire, extended cooking times, and cuts served without elaboration. For Medellín diners who want to understand what South American beef culture looks like outside Colombia's own asado tradition, this is a direct reference point.
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Cambria occupies a quiet address on Carrera 43E in El Poblado, Medellín's most concentrated dining corridor. The restaurant draws from a city that has built serious culinary ambition over the past decade, placing it among a growing tier of El Poblado venues where the meal itself, its pacing, its structure, its ritual, is the point. Expect a considered dining experience in one of Colombia's most restless food cities.
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Chapati Halal sits inside the Vega10 commercial centre in El Poblado, Medellín's most internationally trafficked neighbourhood. It occupies a niche that most of the area's restaurant scene leaves largely unaddressed: halal-certified dining in a district better known for steakhouses, ceviche bars, and Colombian fusion. For visitors whose dietary requirements rule out much of Poblado's standard roster, the address is a practical and specific fix.
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Halong Vietnamita brings Vietnamese cooking to El Poblado, Medellín, operating within a city dining scene that has grown increasingly receptive to Southeast Asian cuisine over the past decade. Located on Cra. 43F in one of the neighbourhood's more active dining corridors, it occupies a niche that few Colombian restaurants have moved into with any seriousness. For visitors building a broader Medellín itinerary, it represents a clear departure from the parrilla and criolla formats that dominate the area.
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Mamasita occupies a corner of El Poblado that captures Medellín's shift from neighbourhood institution to destination dining address. Positioned among the area's more considered mid-to-upper tier restaurants, it draws a clientele that moves between local regulars and internationally aware visitors looking for something beyond the obvious parrilla circuit. The address on Cra 43D places it within easy reach of El Poblado's main dining corridor.
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A neighborhood spot on Calle 10 in El Poblado, Medellín Es Sabor-Champi sits within a dining corridor where Colombian market traditions and Antioquian ingredient culture shape how the city eats at the everyday level. The address places it among a cluster of local eateries that draw residents over tourists, and the name itself signals a menu with roots in the fungi-forward, produce-driven cooking common to highland Colombian kitchens.
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Mekong brings Southeast Asian culinary traditions to El Poblado, one of Medellín's most competitive dining neighbourhoods. The address on Calle 10b places it within walking distance of the district's main restaurant corridor, where it occupies a distinct position among the area's international kitchens. For visitors mapping Medellín's broader dining scene, it represents a category worth understanding on its own terms.
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Mondongo's at Calle 10 38-38 is one of Medellín's most recognized addresses for traditional Antioquian cooking, where the namesake mondongo soup anchors a menu built around the region's peasant pantry. The dining room draws a cross-section of the city, locals and visitors alike, drawn by cooking that treats Colombian comfort food with the seriousness it deserves.
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On Carrera 33 in Medellín's El Poblado-adjacent grid, OCI. Mde has earned a steady following among the city's more deliberate diners, the kind who return not for novelty but for consistency. The kitchen operates within a contemporary Colombian register, where the dining room draws regulars as much for what they already know as for what might have changed since their last visit.
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Restaurante Piqueo sits in El Poblado, Medellín's most active dining corridor, where Peruvian-influenced small-plate formats have built a distinct following among locals and visitors alike. The address on Cra. 32 in the southern stretch of the neighbourhood places it within reach of the area's broader restaurant cluster, making it a practical anchor for an evening of progressive eating across multiple stops.
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Yacky Chan occupies a corner of El Poblado's Carrera 35 corridor, where Medellín's casual dining scene runs parallel to its more formal restaurant tier. The address places it squarely in the neighbourhood's mid-range social circuit, where the emphasis falls on space, atmosphere, and the kind of dining that rewards repeat visits over single occasions.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Medellín.
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Elcielo Hotel occupies the upper tier of Medellín's luxury hospitality scene, combining 28 suites of modern design with a restaurant whose sibling in Washington D.C. earned a Michelin star in 2021. Set in El Poblado behind articulated metal screens and a verdant atrium, the property reads less as a hotel with a good restaurant than as a serious gastronomic address that happens to offer rooms.
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A Michelin Selected property on Carrera 37 in Medellín's El Poblado corridor, Celestino Boutique Hotel represents the smaller-scale, design-conscious tier that has defined the city's premium accommodation offer over the past decade.
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In the heart of Provenza, Medellín’s hippest neighborhood, Hotel El Zarzo makes a striking first impression. Lush greenery spills luxuriantly from its high-arching windows, creating the illusion that the brick facade is a towering vertical garden, fitting for a futuristic boutique hotel where minimizing environmental impact is as essential as the modern interior design. Sleek guest rooms with native wood paneling and slate-tiled bathrooms are divided into three categories, all named after classic cocktails available at the gorgeous rooftop bar, and feature king-sized beds, espresso machines, and Marshall speakers. Polished Caribbean-inspired dishes are served at the hotel’s stylish restaurant, and the sixth-floor terrace doubles as an open-air breakfast venue.
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Hotel Quinta Ladera holds a Michelin Selected distinction in Medellín's 2025 hotel guide, placing it among a small group of properties the Guide considers worth singling out in Colombia's second city. Located in the city's residential southern belt at Calle 5g, the hotel operates in the quieter, design-conscious tier of Medellín accommodation, a counterpoint to the high-rise business hotels that dominate the Poblado corridor.
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A Michelin Selected hotel in Medellín's El Poblado corridor, Marquee Medellin sits at the intersection of the city's design-led hospitality shift and its expanding international profile. The address on Carrera 38 places guests within reach of the neighbourhood's restaurant density and nightlife without sacrificing the quieter registers that boutique properties in this tier tend to prioritize.
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Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, The Click Clack Hotel Medellín sits in El Poblado at Calle 10B # 37-29, placing guests within walking distance of the neighbourhood's restaurant corridor and green spaces. The property belongs to a cohort of design-conscious city hotels that have repositioned Medellín as a credible destination for travelers who treat the hotel itself as part of the itinerary, not just a base.
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Wake BioHotel occupies the Tesoro district of Medellín, positioning itself within Colombia's growing tier of design-led, wellness-oriented properties. Every space is conceived around balance between built environment and natural materials, placing it alongside a small cohort of intentional hotels that treat the physical setting as central to the guest programme rather than incidental to it.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Medellín.
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Ranked #81 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2025, Mamba Negra occupies El Poblado's after-dark circuit as one of Colombia's most-awarded drinking destinations. Located on Calle 2 in El Poblado, it operates at the intersection of Latin American cocktail ambition and curatorial depth.
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