Best Restaurants in Santiago: 2026 Guide
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The best restaurant in Santiago for 2026 is Boragó. Editorial runners-up: Casa Las Cujas, 99 Restaurante, Olam, Karai by Mitsuharu.
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Santiago put five restaurants in Latin America's 50 Best 2025, more than any Chilean year on record, and all five sit in this city. This is the short list: six rooms that define how the capital eats in 2026, ranked, with the detail to book them.
Chilean cooking spent years exporting its ingredients and importing its prestige. That has reversed. Rodolfo Guzmán's foraging at Boragó, the Raide brothers' Pacific seafood at Casa Las Cujas, and Kurt Schmidt's valley-by-valley study at 99 Restaurante now read as a national style rather than borrowed technique.
We ranked these on the kitchen first, then the room and the value. The list runs from a CLP 180,000 tasting menu in Vitacura to a CLP 60,000 nine-course counter in Providencia, because the best table in Santiago depends on the night and the budget.
Boragó
Santiago · Contemporary Chilean · $$$$ · Vitacura
Rodolfo Guzmán's foraged Endémica menu reached No. 6 in Latin America's 50 Best 2025. Book it for the meal of the trip.
Rodolfo Guzmán runs Boragó from Vitacura, and the Endémica tasting menu changes daily around ingredients gathered from across Chile, from Atacama herbs to Patagonian seaweed. Guzmán took the Icon Award at Latin America's 50 Best 2025, the same year the restaurant ranked No. 6 on the continent.
The cooking is research-driven without being cold: a course of grilled chagual cactus, sea-urchin with milk-curd, lamb cooked in its own wool. Expect CLP 180,000 (about US$190) for the long menu before pairings, and book three to four weeks ahead for the room you want.
Casa Las Cujas
Santiago · Contemporary Chilean Seafood · $$$$ · Vitacura
The Raide brothers' seafood room took No. 14 and Highest New Entry in 2025. Book it to taste Santiago's new direction.
Brothers Juan Pablo, Max and Domingo Raide brought the spirit of the Cachagua coast to Vitacura, and Casa Las Cujas debuted at No. 14 on Latin America's 50 Best 2025 with the Highest New Entry Award. The menu is built on relationships with small fishermen from Tongoy to Quellón.
Signature plates include a king-crab tartare with green-ají leche de tigre and a hand-dived erizo served on the shell with brown butter. The tasting runs roughly CLP 75,000 to CLP 145,000 (about US$79 to US$153). Book two to three weeks ahead.
99 Restaurante
Santiago · Contemporary Chilean · $$$ · Providencia
Kurt Schmidt's fourteen-seat counter turns Chilean agriculture into nine quiet courses. Book it for a slow, talkative dinner.
Kurt Schmidt cooks for seven tables and fourteen guests at 99 Restaurante on Andrés de Fuenzalida in Providencia, and the menu reads as a valley-by-valley study of Chilean produce across nine courses. Request the chef's counter for a view of the kitchen at work.
Dinner runs two and a half to three hours, cerebral rather than ceremonial, with conversation flowing between courses. The set menu is around CLP 60,000 (about US$63), one of the better-value serious meals in the city. Book a week or two ahead for weekends.
Olam Restaurante
Santiago · Modern Chilean Seafood · $$$$ · Las Condes
Sergio Barroso's Spanish-trained seafood tapas carry a World's 50 Best Discovery listing. Book it for a measured, impressive dinner.
Sergio Barroso, trained in Spain, runs Olam on Carmencita in Las Condes as a modern Chilean-Pacific seafood programme served in a tapas-style sharing format. The restaurant carries a World's 50 Best Discovery listing and runs about thirty rotating preparations through a service.
Plates move from a sea-urchin tartlet with chardonnay sabayon to a king-crab cannelloni and a salt-baked whole flatfish for the table. A captain-led dinner of seven to nine plates runs about CLP 95,000 (about US$100). Book two weeks ahead.
Karai by Mitsuharu
Santiago · Nikkei · $$$$ · Las Condes
Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei room at the W debuted at No. 45 in 2025. Book it for the toro and the address.
Karai is Mitsuharu Tsumura's Santiago Nikkei project inside the W Hotel on Isidora Goyenechea, run on the floor by chef Sebastián Jara. Tsumura, the chef behind Lima's Maido, keeps the menu close to that lineage, and Karai entered Latin America's 50 Best at No. 45 in 2025.
The toro tuna is the dish to order, alongside a Nikkei ceviche cut with Chilean catch. The room is low-lit with counter seats facing the pass, and a full dinner runs about CLP 90,000 (about US$95). Book two to three weeks ahead.
Osaka
Santiago · Nikkei · $$$ · Vitacura
Ciro Watanabe's veteran Nikkei room still sets the city's standard, garden terraces and all. Book it for an easy, lively night.
Osaka has anchored Santiago's Nikkei scene for two decades, now on Nueva Costanera in Vitacura under Ciro Watanabe. The move to the current address brought multiple floors, two bars, and a series of garden terraces with fountains that make the outdoor tables among the most pleasant in the city.
The stone-grilled corvina is the signature, with a deep list of tiraditos and maki to share. On a warm evening with the Andes on the horizon, the terrace is one of Santiago's civilised pleasures. A full meal runs about CLP 60,000 (about US$63). Book a week ahead.
How Santiago Eats
Santiago dines late by North American standards and early by Argentine ones: dinner bookings cluster from 20:30, and the best kitchens in Vitacura and Las Condes fill on Thursday through Saturday. A 10 percent tip (la propina) is customary and usually suggested on the bill; rounding up is fine for casual rooms. Reservations for the top tables open two to four weeks out, and the serious tasting menus take a deposit.
The wine is the quiet advantage. A city this close to the Maipo, Casablanca and Colchagua valleys pours world-rank bottles at prices that read as errors abroad, which is why a room like La Misión can build the deepest cellar on the continent. Order Chilean and trust the sommelier.
Best Neighborhoods for Dinner
Vitacura is the fine-dining core: Boragó, Casa Las Cujas, La Mar and Osaka sit within a few blocks of Alonso de Córdova and Nueva Costanera. Las Condes holds the hotel rooms and the power tables, including Karai at the W and Olam on Carmencita. Providencia is the mid-city sweet spot, home to 99 Restaurante and a dense run of bistros.
Bellavista, across the river below San Cristóbal hill, is the bohemian counterweight, where Peumayén Ancestral Food rebuilds pre-colonial Chilean cooking in a century-old house and Salvador Cocina y Café hides down a side street. Downtown around La Moneda is thinner but improving. See the full Santiago dining guide for every room by occasion.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best restaurant in Santiago in 2026?
Boragó is the top pick. Rodolfo Guzmán's foraged Endémica menu reached No. 6 in Latin America's 50 Best 2025, and he took the Icon Award the same year. For the city's newest high, Casa Las Cujas debuted at No. 14 with the Highest New Entry Award, and 99 Restaurante offers the best serious meal under CLP 70,000.
Which Santiago restaurants are in Latin America's 50 Best?
Five Chilean restaurants made Latin America's 50 Best 2025, all of them in Santiago: Boragó at No. 6, Casa Las Cujas at No. 14, plus Yum Cha, Demo Magnolia and Karai by Mitsuharu at No. 45. It was the strongest showing for Chile on record, and Boragó's Rodolfo Guzmán also won the 2025 Icon Award.
How far ahead should I book a top Santiago restaurant?
Book Boragó and Casa Las Cujas three to four weeks ahead, Karai and Olam two to three weeks, and 99 Restaurante and Osaka one to two weeks. The tasting-menu rooms in Vitacura take a deposit for weekend services, so confirm the booking and the cancellation terms when you reserve.
Which Santiago neighbourhood is best for dinner?
Vitacura is the fine-dining heart, with Boragó, Casa Las Cujas, La Mar and Osaka clustered near Alonso de Córdova. Las Condes holds the power tables and hotel rooms like Karai and Olam, Providencia is the mid-city bet for 99 Restaurante, and Bellavista is the bohemian counterweight for Peumayén and Salvador.
Is Santiago expensive for fine dining?
Less than its peers. Santiago's top tasting menus run CLP 75,000 to CLP 180,000 (about US$79 to US$190), well below New York or São Paulo for comparable cooking. The wine is the real value: bottles from the nearby Maipo and Colchagua valleys are priced far lower than the same labels abroad, so a serious dinner here costs less than you expect.