PaloSanto Restaurante | Cartagena de Indias image

PaloSanto Restaurante | Cartagena de Indias

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👍👍 Delicious coffee and appetizers! We enjoyed a private coffee tasting session. #TravelDivas People often mention service, good, dinner, ceviche, music, restaurant, excellent,


Address

Cra. 2 #36-86, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Website

palo-santo.cluvi.co

Contact

+57 310 6019117

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (554 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Sunday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Monday: (Epiphany (Observed)), 12 to 10 pm, Hours might differ
  • Tuesday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Wednesday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Thursday: 12 to 11 pm
  • Friday: 12 to 11 pm
  • Saturday: 12 to 11 pm

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: service (11) good (7) dinner (6) ceviche (6) music (6) restaurant (6) excellent (6)
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  • 5/5 Carolyn G. 2 years ago on Google
    Delicious coffee and appetizers! We enjoyed a private coffee tasting session. #TravelDivas
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Diana Marcela Molina I. 1 year ago on Google
    The food was delicious, and the service was exceptional; I highly recommend this place.

  • 5/5 Maria Linda B. 6 months ago on Google
    We had an amazing dinner at Palo Santo. We got a bottle of malbec, shared the fish of the day plato and the maracuyá dessert. The musician was phenomenal as well. 100% would recommend for anyone!

  • 5/5 Lindsay A. 3 months ago on Google New
    Such a great night! The solo guitar player was fantastic, the food was incredible and they prepared a special table for us with rose pedals. Would definitely recommend. 100%.

  • 4/5 Richard S. 2 months ago on Google New
    We had our farewell dinner here for our Gate ! Colombia tour which lasted 11 days. Both the food and service were very good. They gave a house welcoming wine cocktail. Then we had options for appetizers, pork tacos or a mushroom ceviche. For mains, we had a choice of pork or beef or a vegetarian dish. Dessert was a pound cake with ice cream.

  • 5/5 Pamela P. 8 months ago on Google
    Excellent pulpo, fish ceviche better than all the others I've had, Quiet latin-music atmosphere. We'll be back!!

  • 5/5 Juan O. 8 months ago on Google
    Magic birthday night with my beautiful girlfriend, no doubt my best choice. Highly recommended for special occasions and formal dinner.

  • 5/5 Samantha K B. 6 months ago on Google
    The ambiance, service, attention to detail, and live music were everything and more. I highly recommend this restaurant.

  • 5/5 Liliana D. 7 months ago on Google
    The food was delicious. My very picky teenagers enjoyed traditional Cartagenian food. Lovely atmosphere; the live music was excellent. The restaurant is located in a colonial bulding at least 3-4 hundred years old inside the walled city, which is inside the city fortress. I must say that the service was outstanding. Excellet choice for a traditional dinning experience.

  • 4/5 Minh H. 7 months ago on Google
    Overall, we enjoyed the place. It has a nice understated atmosphere. There was a acoustic guitar player the night we came. The service is friendly and efficient. The food is above average. There's a very broad menu and it's a little hit or miss. Our appetizer shrimp in calamari was really just a bunch of butter on top of the protein. On the other hand, my fried fish was excellent.

  • 5/5 Rod Thompson, M. 9 months ago on Google
    In light of writing several reviews, but this being Cartagena... food was awesome. No synonyms needed. I was supposed to meet someone but they didn't show up. Their loss. Decent wine selection, but the wines they had were very good. Food was excellent. Service was great, they even add a little something if you're on a date...

  • 5/5 orley o. 1 year ago on Google
    Pretty nice place to have a lovely dinner with my wife. Absolutely wonderful live music and of course the food was amazing. We tried ceviche and posta cartagenera, so delicious. 100% recommended if you visit Cartagena.

  • 5/5 Divna E. 1 year ago on Google
    SO delicious omg🤤🤤

  • 5/5 Georgette W. 2 years ago on Google
    The food was delicious, and the service was awesome

  • 5/5 Yvvi A. 1 year ago on Google
    I found myself in this amazing restaurant by the mere chance of talking to someone on the street who was offering something else, but I told him I’m hungry so he legit escorted me to Palo Santo and told me it’s the best food. Ohmygoodness, he was not lying. Bible, the best welcome dish to Cartagena. Definitely go in, amazing service and food is just unholy. Thank you 😊

  • 5/5 Rodolfo C. 1 year ago on Google
    A very cozy little restaurant that is good food and spirits. Located inside the historic walls of Cartagena.

  • 5/5 Alex 1 year ago on Google
    OMG. I so highly recommend this place , food was incredible and service was even better. We love it and we will be coming back. Prices were good too

  • 5/5 Jorge G. 1 year ago on Google
    The food was really good. The service was excellent and very efficient.

  • 5/5 Mark C. 1 year ago on Google
    If a restaurant is empty I tend to pass it by but in this case, I am glad I didn’t. During my entire meal from 6:30-7:30 on a Thursday evening, I was their only customer. I can only assume it is because of the lack of foot traffic in their location. The food was excellent! The atmosphere is somewhat upscale but still chill. I started with a fish ceviche. It was a delicately flavored traditional preparation but perfectly executed. It had crunchy corn- something I developed a love for in Peruvian ceviche. My second dish was described as Cartagena’s traditional cheese soup. I have never had anything quite like it but I would describe it as a potato and cheese soup. That really doesn’t do it justice because I don’t even know if potatoes are in it and like the ceviche, the flavors were delicate. I would say this is a perfect spot for just after watching the sunset.

  • 5/5 Quentin van den H. 4 years ago on Google
    Excellent stylish seafood and meat restaurant. Slightly more expensive than at other places, but once you taste it you know why... a must go

  • 5/5 Ivan O. 5 years ago on Google
    We came to this place through Carlos and Marcela that run Guided tour and five star traditional dinner. We had an excellent time. There was live music, the food was great and the service was outstanding

  • 5/5 Cary H. 2 years ago on Google
    Good food, service was a little slow but they had 2 large groups.

  • 4/5 Pam R. 2 years ago on Google
    Great meal. Greater music!

  • 1/5 Felicia C. 2 years ago on Google
    Our tour guide took us there for our good bye dinner . The food was absolutely horrible. Bad quality & bad cooking . The fish was a grey looking color , overcooked, it looked old . . The rice had a bad taste , the desert was slimy . The chicken was dry / over cooked, tasteless . The pork was mostly fat & also overcooked . The plantain chips were dry / old & the dip was tasteless. I think they had the food cooked & reheated . In 2 weeks in Colombia every place we ate was great , this was such a disappointment. The live music was very good .


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Happy-hour food
    • ✓️ Happy-hour drinks
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Drive-through
    • ✓️ Kerbside pickup

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