Rincón Típico

Top choice in Antigua


This courtyard restaurant is always packed with locals who know a good thing when they see it. If you don't come for the huge Guatemalan breakfast, make it for the chicken cooked over coals with garlicky potatoes or pork adobado (pork marinated with paprika and pepper), served up at simple bench tables by never-stopping waitstaff.


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