Taste of Panamá

Sit down at the table with us and enjoy the 1,000 flavors we have for you. From super fresh fish and seafood to international, traditional recipes and ancestral dishes with local ingredients.

Panama City was named a Creative Gastronomic City by UNESCO in 2017 for its versatility and variety. The international communities that found a second home in Panamá brought their recipes, spices and traditions and gradually integrated them into the local offering.

Panamá's chefs have gone out of their way in their search for new flavors, which highlight the importance of our local ingredients. Sit at the table of the best, following the Latin America’s Best guide where you'll find 3 city restaurants in the top 100. Or visit Boquete to have lunch with one of the country's most renowned chefs or at the restaurant that Nat Geo recognized on its Restaurants at the End of the World.

Don't leave without trying our most traditional dishes. In the central provinces, get to know the best of the typical food, visit our fondas and discover the carimañolas, hojaldres, ropavieja, ñame, yuca and a good arroz con pollo.

On the Caribbean coast, Bocas del Toro and Portobelo, be amazed by the mixtures of hot spices with a coconut sweetness, eat a fried fish with crispy patacones, a stewed octopus, a snail or a lobster, all very fresh and with an incredible explosion of flavors.

Visit our indigenous communities and discover the flavors of ingredients that have always been in this soil, many grown in a traditional way and without pesticides. Eat an ensalada de helecho rabo de mano, a pixbae-based dgösho or a local fruit platter while learning about the country's oldest traditions. In addition to eating super tasty food, in some communities you can go on traditional fishing tours and collect your own food, just like our ancestors did.

Visit our organic farms with specialized farm-to-table restaurants and learn about more than 70 varieties of fruit or the more than 40 varieties of natural honey that are produced in the province of Chiriqui. Live a rum tasting experience, visit a tea or artisanal cacao farm and, of course, visit our coffee farms, where you'll see the Geisha coffee variety, listed as one of the best. Their prices at the Best of Panamá auction have surpassed those of any other. In Boquete and Tierras Altas, you can learn much more about our varieties and taste one of the best cups of coffee in the world.