Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Quito from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Quito
Tasting menus in our Quito guide follow Ecuadorian ingredients, from endemic produce at Nuema in Bello Horizonte to regional cycles at URKO in La Floresta and mestizo cooking at Casa Gangotena in San Francisco Plaza.
Nuema in Bello Horizonte serves an avant-garde Ecuadorian tasting menu from chefs Alejandro Chamorro and Pía Salazar, using endemic ingredients from the sea, the mountains, and the Amazon. The wine list includes natural wine. The restaurant ranked 61st on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025.
URKO in La Floresta serves a modern Ecuadorian tasting menu that follows Andean Raymi cycles, using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients from Ecuador's four regions. The wine list is extensive. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant 89th among its top restaurants in South America for 2026.
Casa Gangotena in San Francisco Plaza is a hotel restaurant serving modern Ecuadorian mestizo cuisine, with a tasting menu and an a la carte menu. Chef José Tamayo runs the kitchen in a neoclassical mansion. Craft cocktails are poured. It received a Relais Chateaux award in 2026 and was named Ecuador's Best Hotel Restaurant for 2025 by the World Culinary Awards.
The one exceptional wine program citywide is in La Mariscal, a Star Wine List for 2026 is in Iñaquito, and a hotel bar pouring conventional wine is in Centro Histórico.
Zazu in La Mariscal holds the one exceptional wine program citywide: an extensive, sommelier-led list in a planetarium-shaped, 8-meter-high cellar. The kitchen serves modern Peruvian-Ecuadorian cooking as a tasting menu and a la carte, including a full vegetarian option. The restaurant received a Relais Chateaux award in 2026.
Cardó in Iñaquito cooks modern Mediterranean dishes with Ecuadorian ingredients. Argentinian chef Adrián Escardó runs the kitchen in a multi-level room with its own huerta. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List for 2026. The meal is a la carte and a tasting menu, with craft cocktails.
El Bar at Casa Gangotena in Centro Histórico is a wood-paneled hotel bar with a wine program of conventional wine, plus craft cocktails, classic cocktails, gin tastings, and zero-proof drinks. The Fiesta menu uses Andean cacao, Amazonian spices, coastal palo santo resin, and the September corn harvest. Food & Wine named it third among its Top 10 Global Hotel Bars for 2026.
Quito has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide and no Michelin stars in total. Those figures cover the citywide selection in our Quito guide, which includes 23 restaurants across the city.
La Mariscal holds the one exceptional wine program citywide, at Zazu, an extensive sommelier-led list in an 8-meter-high cellar. Iñaquito holds Cardó, which has a Star Wine List and a wine program. Foch Square area holds JW Marriott Quito, which also holds a Star Wine List for 2026. La Floresta holds URKO and QUITU, both with wine lists, URKO's extensive and QUITU's sommelier-led.
Tasting menus in our guide include Nuema in Bello Horizonte, Zazu in La Mariscal, Casa Gangotena in San Francisco Plaza, URKO and QUITU in La Floresta, Cardó in Iñaquito, Somos in Bellavista, and El Salnés in Maldonado. Shibumi in Las Casas serves omakase as well as a la carte. Nuema, URKO, and QUITU serve only a tasting menu.
Wine-list styles in our Quito guide include an exceptional sommelier-led list at Zazu in La Mariscal, natural wine on an extensive list at Nuema in Bello Horizonte, and a Star Wine List at Cardó in Iñaquito. QUITU in La Floresta is sommelier-led. El Bar at Casa Gangotena in Centro Histórico pours conventional wine with gin and craft cocktails.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Quito
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Ranked 61st on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in both 2024 and 2025, Nuema is where Quito's contemporary dining conversation is most seriously happening. Chefs Alejandro Chamorro and Pía Salazar run a seasonally driven tasting menu that maps Ecuador's biodiversity through angular plating, bold colour, and layered flavour. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Sunday and Monday.
Quito, Ecuador
Ranked No. 68 on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 extended list, Tributo is Quito's most focused expression of fire-based cooking, built around dry-aged Ecuadorian beef and hyper-local sourcing. Chef-owner Luis Maldonado anchors the menu in nose-to-tail technique and Andean terroir, from a 120-day dry-aged cut raised at 4,000 metres to a 48-hour smoked rib broth. Among Quito's growing tier of serious dining rooms, it occupies a distinct position.
Quito, Ecuador
Zazu sits at the summit of Quito's contemporary Ecuadorean dining tier, ranked #48 and #51 in Opinionated About Dining's South America rankings for consecutive years. The menu architecture moves through local ingredients with clear structural intent, supported by a full vegetarian option and one of the city's most serious wine collections housed in an 8-metre-high cellar.
Quito, Ecuador
Casa Gangotena occupies a listed neoclassical mansion on Quito's San Francisco Plaza, one of the historic centre's most commanding positions. The property pairs Art Deco-styled rooms with a panoramic terrace facing the Avenue of the Volcanoes, and its restaurant under Chef José Tamayo brings Ecuadorian fine dining to one of the country's most architecturally significant addresses.
Quito, Ecuador
Clara operates from La Floresta, Quito's most creatively active neighbourhood, as a restaurant and bar built around a clear, ingredient-led approach to Ecuadorian cooking. The kitchen, led by chefs Ana Lobato, Ángel De Sousa, and Felipe Salas, earned the Latin America's 50 Best One To Watch Award in 2024, placing it among the more closely followed addresses in the country's emerging dining scene.
Quito, Ecuador
On Av. La Coruña in Quito's Mariscal district, Cardó earns its following through a wine list that punches well above the city average and a room that settles into warmth rather than formality. Reviewers consistently single out the service and the bottle selection as the reasons they return. For wine-focused dining in Quito, it sits in a small peer group at the summit of the conversation.
Quito, Ecuador
Chef Danile Maldonado works within a format rooted in Ecuadorian produce and technique. For the city's contemporary dining scene, it represents one of the more consistent arguments for what local ingredients can do at a serious level.
Quito, Ecuador
A Vietnamese sandwich counter on the Andalucía corridor in Quito's La Floresta district, Banh Mi brings one of Southeast Asia's most architecturally precise street foods to a city more often associated with Andean grain bowls and ceviche. The format is fast, the flavours direct, and the address places it within walking distance of Quito's most concentrated stretch of independent dining.
Quito, Ecuador
Botánica Restaurant belongs to Quito’s growing ingredient-led dining conversation, where Andean produce, coastal supply lines, and Amazonian pantry traditions increasingly shape the city’s serious tables. With its position on Avenida Francisco de Orellana and Avenida Amazonas, it fits a north-central Quito circuit that rewards diners interested in Ecuadorian sourcing rather than generic international polish.
Quito, Ecuador
Chez Jérôme occupies a measured position in Quito's evolving French-inflected dining scene, operating from an address on Whymper in the Mariscal district where European culinary tradition meets Ecuadorian context. The format rewards patience: this is a restaurant where the pacing of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate. For visitors cross-referencing the city's more prominent contemporary tables, it represents a different, quieter register.
Quito, Ecuador
Ciré occupies a quiet address on Cumbayá's central park, positioning it closer to Quito's suburban dining evolution than to the historic centre's fine-dining corridor. The restaurant sits within a neighbourhood that has drawn serious kitchen talent away from the city's traditional restaurant axis, making it a useful marker for understanding where contemporary Quito dining is heading.
Quito, Ecuador
El Salnés serves Modern Ecuadorian Gastro-Picantería in Quito, with local sourcing, organic ingredients, and signatures like suckling pig, spicy chorizo, and paiche fish broth.
Quito, Ecuador
La Briciola sits on Av. Isabel la Católica in Quito's Mariscal Sucre district, where Italian-inflected cooking meets the Andean supply chain that defines the city's better independent restaurants. The address places it within easy reach of the capital's most active dining corridor, making it a practical base for exploring what Quito's mid-tier Italian scene actually looks like on the plate.
Quito, Ecuador
Located on Av. Isabel la Católica in Quito's Mariscal Sucre district, Noe occupies a dining tier where Ecuadorian ingredients meet contemporary technique. The address places it within reach of the capital's most active restaurant corridor, where a new generation of kitchens is reframing highland and coastal produce for a more internationally fluent audience. Book ahead and arrive with appetite for the broader conversation this part of the city is having with its own food culture.
Quito, Ecuador
Nubori occupies a corner address in Quito's González Suárez corridor, a neighbourhood that has become the reference point for the city's more considered dining options. The restaurant sits within the Bristol Parc building on Catalina Aldaz and Portugal, placing it firmly inside the zone where Quito's restaurant scene has been quietly consolidating its more serious ambitions over the past decade.
Quito, Ecuador
On a quiet stretch of José Bosmediano in Quito's northern residential belt, QUITU positions itself within the city's growing tier of contemporary Ecuadorian dining rooms that treat native ingredients with the same precision international kitchens apply to European traditions. For visitors working through Quito's serious restaurant scene, it sits alongside names like Nuema and Casa Gangotena as part of a conversation about what Andean cooking looks like at table.
Quito, Ecuador
Rincón de Francia occupies a quiet stretch of the Mariscal Sucre district, bringing a French culinary tradition to Quito's increasingly self-confident dining scene. The address on Vicente Ramón Roca places it within easy reach of the capital's broader restaurant corridor, where European cooking formats have found a durable foothold alongside the city's new wave of contemporary Ecuadorian kitchens.
Quito, Ecuador
On Ruiz de Castilla in Quito, Shibumi occupies a corner of the city's dining scene where Japanese restraint meets Andean geography. Details on format, pricing, and booking remain tightly held, which places it in a category of venues that rely on word-of-mouth rather than digital visibility. For those tracking Quito's quieter dining addresses, it warrants attention alongside the city's more documented contemporary tables.
Quito, Ecuador
On Avenida Eloy Alfaro in Quito's northern residential belt, Somos operates in a city that has quietly become one of South America's more interesting dining destinations. The address places it within reach of the creative restaurants reshaping Ecuadorian cooking, and the venue draws visitors who approach the city's dining scene with some planning already done.
Quito, Ecuador
On Av. La Coruña in Quito's La Floresta district, ZFOOD occupies a stretch of the city where independent restaurants have gradually displaced older commercial tenants. The address places it in a neighbourhood defined by creative dining rather than tourist convenience, making it a reference point for Quito's evolving midscale and contemporary dining conversation alongside peers like Nuema and Tributo.
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Quito, Ecuador
A 31-room boutique hotel on Quito's San Francisco Plaza, Casa Gangotena occupies a listed neoclassical mansion rebuilt between 1918 and 1926. Rates from US$279 per night place it in the upper tier of Old Town lodging, with Art Deco interiors, a panoramic rooftop terrace, and a restaurant programme built around Cocina Mestiza, the blend of Ecuador's indigenous and Spanish culinary traditions.
Quito, Ecuador
A MICHELIN Selected property on Sebastián de Benalcázar, Carlota Sustainable Design Hotel occupies a considered position within Quito's emerging tier of design-conscious boutique accommodation. The hotel's sustainability framework and architectural identity set it apart from both the colonial heritage houses and the international chain properties that have historically dominated the city's premium lodging market.
Quito, Ecuador
A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a restored colonial house in Quito's Centro Histórico, Casa El Edén sits on Calle Esmeraldas at the intersection of preserved Baroque architecture and the neighbourhood's working street life. The property places itself among a small cohort of heritage boutique stays in the historic core, where the physical fabric of the building is the primary credential.
Quito, Ecuador
GO Quito Hotel holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction in Ecuador's capital, positioning it among a compact tier of recognised properties in the Gonzalez Suarez district. The address on Eloy Alfaro places guests within reach of Quito's financial corridor and the green corridors leading toward the Guápulo ravine, making it a practical base for both urban movement and quieter recovery.
Quito, Ecuador
A Michelin Selected boutique hotel in Quito's La Mariscal district, Cultura Manor by Café Cultura occupies a restored colonial-era house on Jorge Washington, where understated service and an intimate atmosphere place it among the city's more considered small-property options.
Quito, Ecuador
A Michelin Selected boutique hotel on Benalcazar street in Quito's historic centre, Hotel Casa Gardenia places guests within walking distance of the colonial core that UNESCO recognised in 1978. Among Quito's small-scale design properties, it occupies the quieter, independently operated tier rather than the international-brand segment, making it a practical base for travellers who want neighbourhood access over lobby scale.
Quito, Ecuador
A MICHELIN Selected boutique hotel occupying a colonial-era building in Quito's Centro Histórico, Illa Experience Hotel sits at the intersection of heritage architecture and considered hospitality. Its address on Junín, steps from the Baroque churches and plazas that define one of Latin America's most intact historic centres, makes it a natural anchor for travellers who want the old city as a lived experience rather than a day-trip backdrop.
Quito, Ecuador
A Star Wine List-recognised address on the Avenida Amazonas, JW Marriott Quito occupies a distinctive pyramid-shaped building at the intersection of the city's financial and diplomatic corridors. The hotel places guests within reach of both the colonial Historic Centre and the Mariscal Sucre district, with Andean skylines framing almost every public space. It operates as one of Quito's most consistent full-service addresses for business and leisure travellers alike.
Quito, Ecuador
Sitting on Avenida República de El Salvador in Quito's González Suárez corridor, Le Parc Hotel, Beyond Stars holds a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, one of a small number of Quito properties to earn that recognition. The hotel positions itself in the design-led, boutique tier of the city's accommodation market, where architecture and atmosphere take precedence over chain-format scale.
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Quito, Ecuador
El Bar at Casa Gangotena gives Quito’s cocktail scene a strong Ecuadorian argument: national celebrations, regional ingredients, and bar technique treated as cultural interpretation rather than garnish. Its Fiesta menu draws from Andean cacao, Amazonian spices, coastal palo santo resin, and the September corn harvest, making it a sharp choice for travelers who want Ecuador in the glass rather than another international hotel-bar template.
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