Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Guatemala in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Guatemala
The capital has the most venues in our guide, including modern Guatemalan tasting-menu kitchens with wine lists.
Sublime Restaurante in Guatemala City pairs an extensive wine list with tasting-menu and à la carte service in a modern Guatemalan fine-dining kitchen. The 12-course menu moves through seven regions and historical eras, and World's 50 Best Latin America lists it at #19 (2025).
DIACÁ in 4 Grados Norte is a modern Guatemalan fine-dining restaurant with a wine list. Seasonal tasting menus use local produce, and the room looks over the city from a tower. The menus run six or eight courses, and World's 50 Best Latin America lists it at #37 (2025).
Ana in Zona 14 serves a tasting menu with a wine list, and bar seats face an open kitchen. Each course comes with a description of the local ingredients. The cuisine is modern Latin fusion, drawing on Colombian and Guatemalan traditions. It received the American Express One To Watch Award 2025.
Mercado 24 in Zona 4 is a modern Guatemalan restaurant in a casual warehouse-style room, with a wine list. The menu follows what the city's markets have each morning, served à la carte and as small plates. World's 50 Best Latin America lists it at #42 (2025).
Quiltro in Antigua is a tasting menu with an extensive wine list. Welten Restaurant Antigua Guatemala in Antigua is à la carte with an extensive wine list, and Casa Escobar Antigua in Antigua Guatemala serves premium cuts à la carte and family-style.
Quiltro in Antigua is the city's first tasting menu restaurant, with an extensive wine list. It combines Guatemalan ingredients with global techniques from a chef trained at Noma and Mugaritz.
Welten Restaurant Antigua Guatemala in Antigua serves international gourmet cooking and Guatemalan specialties à la carte, with an extensive wine list. The candlelit courtyard has a pool, and the kitchen team comprises 10 Guatemalan female chefs.
Casa Escobar Antigua in Antigua Guatemala is a family-owned steakhouse serving premium cuts, with à la carte and family-style service. The cooking has Latin and Central American influences, and the room is candlelit. It also serves craft cocktails. It has over 30 years of tradition.
MONTICELLI in Zona 14 serves Italian cuisine à la carte with an exceptional Italian wine program and an extensive wine list. Casa Palopó and 6.8 Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó serve modern Guatemalan cooking à la carte with wine lists, and 6.8 Palopó has an extensive wine list.
Casa Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó is a boutique hotel restaurant above Lake Atitlán, with panoramic lake views. It serves modern Guatemalan cuisine à la carte using local ingredients, alongside a wine list. It holds a Relais & Châteaux award (2025).
6.8 Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó serves modern Guatemalan fusion overlooking Lake Atitlán, with volcano views, à la carte and tasting-menu formats, a wine list, and an extensive wine list. It holds Relais & Châteaux awards for 2025 and 2026.
MONTICELLI in Zona 14 serves Italian cuisine à la carte. Its Italian wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list. The restaurant has a refined atmosphere and uses artisanal products in its Italian cooking.
These hotel and regional restaurants include Villa Bokéh in San Pedro Panorama, serving garden-grown produce; La Lancha in Santa Elena, pouring Coppola estate wines; and Restaurant Don Carlos, Mazate in Mazatenango, serving parrillada and sushi.
Villa Bokéh in San Pedro Panorama serves Guatemalan nouvelle cuisine à la carte, with a wine list. The cooking is farm-to-table, using produce from its own garden, along with eggs and handmade tortillas. It holds a Relais & Châteaux award (2025).
La Lancha in Santa Elena is Francis Ford Coppola's rainforest hotel on Lake Petén Itzá, with ten rooms and a restaurant that serves Guatemalan cooking. It holds a Michelin 1 Key (2026). The restaurant serves wood-fired pizza and Coppola estate wines.
Restaurant Don Carlos, Mazate in Mazatenango is a roadside steakhouse serving international and Guatemalan cooking à la carte. The restaurant has a large dining setting, with parrillada and sushi on the menu.
Guatemala City has the most venues in our guide, with 11 restaurants citywide. They include modern Guatemalan tasting-menu kitchens and MONTICELLI in Zona 14, an Italian restaurant with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list.
Guatemala has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Michelin hotel distinctions include Villa Bokéh with two Keys, plus Casa Palopó, Posada del Angel, La Lancha and Bolontiku Boutique Hotel and Spa with one Key each in 2026.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Sublime Restaurante in Guatemala City, DIACÁ in 4 Grados Norte, Ana in Zona 14, Flor de Lis in Guatemala City, Quiltro in Antigua, and 6.8 Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó.
No Wine Spectator awards are listed for the venues named here, including MONTICELLI in Zona 14 and Quiltro in Antigua. The same applies to Welten Restaurant Antigua Guatemala in Antigua and 6.8 Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Guatemala
Selected entries from the current guide for Guatemala.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Sublime Restaurant sits in Guatemala City's Zona 14 with a 12-course tasting menu that traces Guatemalan history from pre-Columbian origins through Spanish colonial syncretism to the country's culinary present. Chef Sergio Díaz and anthropologist Jocelyn Degollado collaborate on a format that places Guatemala City on the regional tasting-menu circuit, recognised by Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Top Restaurants in North America list.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
DIACÁ in Guatemala City presents Contemporary Guatemalan tasting menus that celebrate 100% local, seasonal produce. Must-try dishes include Membrillo de la abuela, Chilacayote, and Maleta de frijol. Led by Terroir Award 2025 chef Debora Fadul, the kitchen translates microclimates and farm stories into six- or eight-course menus. Expect precise plating, bright citrus and herb notes, and warm, inviting service in an intimate 50-seat dining room. Reservations via OpenTable are recommended for this focused culinary experience that pairs inventive cocktails and regional wines with deeply rooted Guatemalan flavors.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
In Guatemala City's Cuatro Grados Norte district, Mercado 24 builds its menu entirely around what the city's daily markets yield each morning. Chef Pablo Díaz Quiñonez leads a four-person kitchen that treats availability as the menu, making each visit structurally different from the last. Among the Zona 4 dining options, it occupies a distinct niche: casual in format, deliberate in sourcing.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Ana, led by Colombian chef Nicolás Solanilla Leguizamón, earned the American Express One To Watch Award 2025 for its mestizo cuisine that draws on Colombian memory and Guatemalan culinary tradition in equal measure. Located in Guatemala City's Zone 1, it represents a new direction for the city's fine dining scene: cross-border in sensibility, deeply local in sourcing, and harder to categorise than most of its peers.
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
Positioned on the edge of Lake Atitlán in Santa Catarina Palopó, 6.8 Palopó is one of the few restaurants in Guatemala's highland lake corridor to earn recognition for expression of terroir. Under chef Jorge Peralta, the kitchen works within a Latin American frame but pulls directly from the volcanic soils and indigenous agricultural traditions that define this specific corner of the Guatemalan altiplano.
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
Casa Palopó sits above Lake Atitlán in Santa Catarina Palopó, framed by three volcanoes and serving Guatemalan-inspired fusion under chef Mario André Miralles. Access is via La Aurora International Airport, roughly 120 km away.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Clio's sits on 6A Avenida in Guatemala City's Zone 10 corridor, where the capital's contemporary dining scene is most concentrated. For travellers already mapping the city's serious restaurants, this is one address that warrants attention.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Flor de Lis occupies a notable position in Guatemala City's evolving fine dining conversation, operating out of the Casa del Aguila address in Zona 4 under chef Diego Telles. For travellers building a considered itinerary in the capital, it warrants attention.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Una sorta di gemellaggio fra Italia e Francia: la base è ovviamente la pizza tonda, ottenuta da una buona lievitazione e una attenta cottura nel forno a legna. Sopra, oltre ai classici, moltissimi ingredienti freschi a seconda della proposta, dalle verdure ai funghi, abbinati sempre con estrema precisione e conoscenza e non messi a casaccio. L’ambiente è molto bello, con un bar ricco di proposte per qualunque tipo di abbinamento, la sala è festosa, con un servizio attento e scrupoloso. Le pizze vengono servite con cura su una base di legno che spinge alla convivialità. Una realtà che punta a costruirsi una propria identità invece di replicare altri modelli. Ed è questo il pregio del progetto: fusone fra culture e stili diversi che ha alla base la gioia della pizza. A sort of twinning between Italy and France: the base is obviously the round pizza, obtained from a good leavening and careful cooking in a wood-fired oven. On top, in addition to the classics, many fresh ingredients according to the proposal, from vegetables to mushrooms, always paired with extreme precision and knowledge and not randomly placed. The atmosphere is nice, with a bar full of proposals for any type of pairing, the room is festive, with attentive and scrupulous service. The pizzas are served with care on a wooden base that encourages conviviality. A reality that aims to build its own identity instead of replicating other models. And this is the merit of the project: fusion of different cultures and styles that is based on the joy of pizza.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Set on a hillside just outside Antigua, Villa Bokéh is a secluded hacienda property where Caribbean Fusion cooking by Chef Marcos Saenz meets the volcanic highland terrain of Sacatepéquez. it occupies a category of its own in the region's dining and hospitality scene.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
On a quiet stretch of 4a Avenida Sur in Antigua Guatemala, Carlos & Carlos occupies a position in the city's mid-tier dining scene where colonial atmosphere and local ingredient traditions intersect. The address places it within walking distance of the central plaza, making it a practical anchor for visitors exploring Antigua's broader restaurant circuit.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Casa Cristal Bistro fits Antigua’s quieter dining register: a restaurant outside the colonial grid where the value lies in setting, produce logic, and the city’s access to highland farms rather than trophy credentials. It suits diners comparing Antigua’s polished hotel tables, casual town-centre restaurants, and view-led countryside meals across a longer Guatemala itinerary.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
On a quiet stretch of 6a Avenida Norte, Casa Escobar Antigua occupies a position in Antigua's mid-tier dining scene that rewards those willing to step away from the cobblestone main drag. The address places it within easy reach of the city's colonial core, and the setting reflects the Spanish Baroque architectural fabric that defines this UNESCO-listed town. A practical base for understanding Antigua's broader food culture.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Casa Escobar at Paseo Cayalá sits within Guatemala City's most architecturally coherent retail and dining district, positioning itself as the neighbourhood's flagship steakhouse. The format follows the high-end parilla tradition, where the quality of the beef and the discipline of the fire matter more than elaborate technique. For visitors exploring the city's upper dining tier, it represents a grounded alternative to the tasting-menu circuit.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Donde Mikel occupies a address on 6A Avenida in Guatemala City's Zone 1, where the rhythm of a meal follows local custom rather than imported format. The kitchen draws on Guatemala City's evolving dining scene, positioning itself among a generation of restaurants redefining what a sit-down meal in the capital can mean. Plan ahead: availability and booking details are best confirmed directly with the venue.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
El Rincon Tipico sits within Antigua Guatemala's tradition of comedor-style dining, where the ritual of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the table. The setting channels the colonial city's unhurried pace, making it a reference point for travelers seeking Guatemalan home cooking over international alternatives. A practical entry into the city's local dining culture.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
A long-running fixture on Antigua's restaurant scene, Fridas draws on the flavors and ingredients of Guatemala's colonial heartland. The setting echoes the bohemian energy the city projects to travelers, while the menu stays grounded in regional produce and tradition. For visitors piecing together Antigua's dining options, it represents one of the more characterful stops on the local circuit.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hacienda Real is one of Zona 10's most established addresses for Guatemalan beef, drawing a loyal local crowd to a dining room that reads more ranch than restaurant. The format is direct: quality cuts, consistent execution, and a setting that signals this is where Guatemala City comes to eat meat seriously. It holds its position in the zone's mid-to-upper tier without the fine-dining theatrics of some neighbours.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Ramen in a colonial Guatemalan city is an unexpected proposition, and Kombu Ramen on 3rd Calle Oriente makes a case for why it works. The address places it squarely in Antigua's historic core, where cobblestone streets and centuries-old stone facades frame an unlikely bowl of Japanese comfort. A focused concept in a city better known for its Mayan and Spanish culinary inheritance.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Luka occupies a polished address inside Edificio Zenit in Guatemala City's Zone 10, placing it within the corridor where the capital's more considered dining options tend to concentrate. The kitchen works within a broader regional shift toward ingredient-led cooking, where provenance matters as much as technique. For visitors mapping Guatemala City's table, Luka is a reference point worth holding.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Book MONTICELLI for a formal Italian meal in Zona 14 when wine, conversation, and occasion-level service matter. It is better for date nights, business dinners, and adult celebrations than for children, outdoor dining, or a casual quick bite.
San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala
Pacaya sits in San Vicente Pacaya, Escuintla, at the foot of one of Central America's most active volcanoes, a setting that shapes everything from the surrounding agricultural land to the character of a meal taken here. The volcano's fertile slopes produce ingredients found almost nowhere else in Guatemala, making the provenance question central to any serious assessment of what dining in this location means.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
On a colonial block in La Antigua Guatemala, Pappy's BBQ brings American-style smoked and grilled meat traditions to a city better known for its open-fire Guatemalan cooking. The address on 6ta Calle Poniente places it within walking distance of Antigua's central park, making it a practical stop for visitors already exploring the city's wider food scene. For context on how it fits into the broader dining picture, see our full La Antigua Guatemala restaurants guide.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
On a quiet colonial street in Antigua Guatemala, Quiltro occupies the kind of address that rewards those who look past the better-known doorways. The name, Spanish slang for a street dog, signals an unpretentious register that fits squarely within Antigua's shift toward honest, locally rooted dining. It sits among a small cohort of restaurants redefining what an evening out in this city can mean.
Guatemala
Selected entries from the current guide for Guatemala.
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
Perched above the deepest lake in Central America and framed by three volcanoes, Casa Palopó is a 15-room boutique hotel where Mayan textile traditions and contemporary Guatemalan craft shape every surface.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
A Relais & Châteaux member property set on six acres of parkland just outside Antigua's city center, Villa Bokéh occupies a restored Belle Époque villa with 15 rooms, two restaurants, a spa, and a swimming pool. Rates from US$321 per night. The estate balances heritage architecture with a contemporary design sensibility rooted in local craft and textiles.
Tikal, Guatemala
La Lancha sits on the shore of Lake Petén Itzá, ten minutes from the UNESCO-listed Tikal ruins, and belongs to Francis Ford Coppola's trio of Central American eco-lodges alongside Blancaneaux Lodge and Turtle Inn. With ten rooms, shared terraces, and a restaurant combining Guatemalan cooking with wood-fired pizza and Coppola estate wines, it trades luxury finish for rainforest setting and archaeological proximity.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
A seven-suite hotel in Antigua's old town center, Posada del Angel sits in the shadow of the volcano that defines the city's skyline. Development here halted after the 1773 earthquake, and the property leans into that frozen-in-amber quality: old-world aesthetics, 600-thread linens, a courtyard lap pool, and a rooftop terrace that frames colonial Guatemala at close range.
San Andres, Guatemala
Set on the shore of Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén lowlands of Guatemala, Bolontiku Boutique Hotel and Spa draws its name and design language from Mayan cosmology. The property sits where dense rainforest meets open water, framing a retreat that positions itself within the smaller, design-conscious tier of lakeside lodging in this part of Central America.
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
The only contemporary hotel in Antigua Guatemala, Good Hotel occupies a reclaimed colonial mansion on Calle del Hermano Pedro with Dutch-inspired interiors that set it apart from the city's colonial-reproduction norm. The property operates as a social enterprise, channelling revenue toward NGOs supporting local children. A considered choice for travellers who prefer design clarity over heritage maximalism.
Guatemala
Selected entries from the current guide for Guatemala.
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Guatemala
Selected entries from the current guide for Guatemala.
No venues found.
