Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Venezuela in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Venezuela
Caracas holds the country’s clearest cluster of serious dining, with tasting menus, wine lists, and the strongest concentration of award-recognised venues.
Cordero serves a lamb-focused tasting menu in Los Palos Grandes, sourcing its lamb exclusively from partner farm Proyecto Ubre. Its multi-course cooking earned recognition in Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants and The Best Chef Two Knives in 2025.
An Altamira restaurant with tasting menu and à la carte formats, a wine list, and contemporary Venezuelan cooking led by Chef Carlos García. It holds The Best Chef One Knife in 2025.
El Bosque Bistró has a wine list in Chacao, with craft cocktails, small plates and à la carte dining. Its contemporary Venezuelan cooking includes asado negro and pastel de chucho, served on a terrace.
La Casa Bistró serves Venezuelan bistro cooking in Los Palos Grandes, using vegetables from its own garden, freshly baked bread and house-made ingredients. It has a standard wine programme and holds Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants recognition in 2025.
These cities contribute contemporary Venezuelan bistro cooking, open-flame grilling and American burgers, with wine at El Bosque Bistró and a minimal wine programme at Casa Tarbes Restaurant.
El Bosque Bistró serves contemporary Venezuelan cooking in Chacao, with a wine list, small plates and craft cocktails. Its terrace setting accompanies dishes including asado negro and pastel de chucho, reworked in a contemporary bistro format.
Brasero Restaurant is a grill restaurant in Municipio Sucre with a comfortable setting and a diverse clientele. Its brasero cooking centres on open-flame grilling over live coals within a structured restaurant setting.
Casa Tarbes Restaurant serves American burgers in Mañongo with a minimal wine programme and an à la carte menu. Its blue cheese Angus burger is a speciality, served in a conversational dining room.
Pampatar, Municipio Urbaneja, Vargas Municipality and Municipio Naguanagua contribute pizza, Spanish seafood and coastal cooking to the guide, with standard wine programmes across these picks.
Portarossa is an AVPN-certified Neapolitan pizzeria in Old Town Pampatar, led by pizza chef Yoselin Maria Tavares. Sourdough leavening and San Marzano tomatoes feature alongside an Italian drinks list, colonial architecture, rustic stone walls and an airy outdoor section.
Tasca Restaurant El Moroco serves Spanish seafood and steak in Lecheria, with a standard wine programme and an à la carte menu. The tasca-style restaurant combines fresh seafood, generous portions and a luxurious dining room.
Casa Pakea serves Venezuelan coastal cuisine in Vargas Municipality, with an à la carte menu and a standard wine programme. The restaurant has a relaxed beachside setting that accompanies its focus on coastal cooking.
Casa Vintage Restaurant serves Caribbean beach dining in Municipio Naguanagua, with a standard wine programme and an à la carte menu. Its quiet, casual setting includes beachfront sunset views and a nightly bonfire.
Caracas restaurants hold recognition from Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants and The Best Chef, spanning lamb-focused tasting menus, contemporary Venezuelan fine dining and bistro cooking.
Cordero holds Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants recognition and The Best Chef Two Knives in 2025. In Los Palos Grandes, its lamb-focused tasting menu uses lamb from Proyecto Ubre in preparations extending from cured jerky to cheese.
Alto holds The Best Chef One Knife in 2025. Its dining formats include a tasting menu and an à la carte option, and the restaurant has a wine list.
El Bosque Bistró holds The Best Chef One Knife in 2025. The Chacao restaurant serves contemporary Venezuelan bistro cooking on a terrace, with small plates, an à la carte format, a wine list and craft cocktails.
La Casa Bistró holds Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants recognition in 2025. Its Los Palos Grandes kitchen uses vegetables grown in its own garden, freshly baked bread and house-made ingredients, with a standard wine programme and à la carte dining.
Caracas has the largest concentration of venues in our Venezuela guide, with 5 venues across restaurants and a hotel. Its restaurants offering tasting menus include Alto in Altamira and Cordero in Los Palos Grandes.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Venezuela guide. That count covers Caracas, Municipio Valencia, Vargas Municipality, Sucre, Pampatar, Municipio Urbaneja and Municipio Naguanagua, the cities included in the guide's country-wide Michelin totals.
Alto in Altamira and El Bosque Bistró in Chacao have wine lists. Alto offers tasting-menu and à la carte dining, while El Bosque Bistró serves contemporary Venezuelan bistro cooking with small plates and craft cocktails.
Cordero, La Casa Bistró, Alto, El Bosque Bistró, Portarossa and Cayena-Caracas hold third-party recognition. These include Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants, The Best Chef and 50 Top Pizza awards, alongside Michelin Selected status and Leading Hotels of the World membership for Cayena-Caracas.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Venezuela
Selected entries from the current guide for Venezuela.
Pampatar, Venezuela
Portarossa brings Neapolitan pizza tradition to Pampatar with sourdough leavening, San Marzano tomatoes, and an Italian drinks list that few kitchens on Isla de Margarita attempt with this level of discipline. Pizzaiola Yoselin María Tavares Urdaneta shapes a menu that covers both classic red and white formats, served in rooms with rustic stone walls and an airy outdoor section.
Caracas, Venezuela
Ranked No. 29 on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025, Cordero is a Caracas tasting-menu restaurant built around a single protein: lamb sourced exclusively from partner farm Proyecto Ubre. Chef Isaam Koteich's multi-course format moves through lamb in forms most kitchens would never attempt, from cured jerky to cheese, placing it among the more focused and credentialed tables in Venezuela.
Caracas, Venezuela
Alto sits at the upper tier of Caracas fine dining, with Chef Carlos García bringing a level of technical discipline rarely found in Venezuelan restaurants. Located in Los Palos Grandes, the address has become a reference point for serious dining in the city. For anyone tracing the development of contemporary Venezuelan cuisine, Alto is where that conversation tends to start.
Caracas, Venezuela
In Los Palos Grandes, one of Caracas's more composed dining neighbourhoods, El Bosque Bistró operates under chef Iván Garcia as a reference point for the city's contemporary bistro format. The address on Avenida Los Palos Grandes places it within walking distance of several of the capital's more serious dining options, making it a logical anchor for an evening in the area.
Caracas, Venezuela
La Casa Bistró occupies a residential stretch of Los Palos Grandes, one of Caracas's more composed eastern neighbourhoods, where garden-to-table cooking and house-made ingredients set the register. The kitchen draws on fresh produce from its own garden, working within a bistro format that prioritises clean flavours over spectacle. Among Caracas dining options at this tier, it reads as a neighbourhood anchor rather than a destination showpiece.
Sucre, Venezuela
Brasero Restaurant operates within the commercial Centro Comercial El Marqués corridor in Caracas, serving a city where fire-driven cooking has long anchored the informal dining tradition. The brasero format, open-flame grilling over live coals, sits at the centre of Venezuelan culinary identity, and this address puts that tradition into a structured restaurant context. For visitors tracking the Sucre dining circuit, it represents a useful reference point in the capital's mid-tier grill category.
Vargas Municipality, Venezuela
The Road to Galipán and What It Signals About Venezuelan Highland Cooking The ascent to San Antonio de Galipán along Vía Galipán is one of the more disorienting approaches to a meal in Venezuela. Within thirty minutes of leaving the coastal heat...
Valencia, Venezuela
Casa Tarbes Restaurant serves American Burgers, with a blue cheese angus burger on the menu and a conversational room that suits breakfast through dinner.
Municipio Naguanagua, Venezuela
Casa Vintage Restaurant serves Caribbean Beach Dining at Calle callejón Mañongo, número 2 urbanización Mañongo, in Municipio Naguanagua. Quiet, casual, and set for leisurely dinner service.
Municipio Urbaneja, Venezuela
A tasca-style restaurant on Avenida Bolívar in Lechería, Municipio Urbaneja, El Moroco fits into the Spanish-inflected dining tradition that has long shaped Venezuela's coastal Anzoátegui region. With sparse publicly available data, the kitchen's sourcing from a coastline rich in Caribbean seafood positions it within a regional dining culture that rewards direct engagement before visiting.
Venezuela
Selected entries from the current guide for Venezuela.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Venezuela.
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Venezuela
Selected entries from the current guide for Venezuela.
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