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The small Arabic community is quite culinarily active in Valledupar; both restaurants and shops will fill your craving for these goodies. Other international cuisines presented include Chinese. Otherwise, look forward to more fine Colombian cooking or pollo broaster. Comidas corrientes run $1.80-3.20. On Carrera 9, especially between Calles 9 and 11, are some very expensive gourmet and fusion-cuisine restaurants.
The city’s most central market, Galería Popular, hustles from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. (between Carreras 7 and 7A, Calles 18A and 18B). The Mercado público is at Carrera 12 and Calle 21. An Olímpica supermarket is conveniently in the heart of the city (Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday and holidays 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Carrera 9 and Calle 14).
Nightlife
Despite being the home of Vallenato music, very few nightclubs feature live bands of this genre—or live music at all, for that matter. The majority of establishments have canned music. Yes, and Vallenato is the most common, of course. As in many towns in Colombia, clubs are only open on weekends. The commonest tragos are beer, aguardiente and the liquor associated with Vallenato music, whiskey.
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Despite the name, Restaurante Nandoburguer is much more well-known on the local circuit for the hearty home-cooked meals it whips up—whether for breakfast, lunch or dinner. With two rooms of indoor seating and a few tables on the front patio, the waiters are kept hopping attending to the crowd....
Valledupar, Colombia
At Jerusalem Express, Lebanese-born Ibraham and his Colombian wife have introduced Valduparenses to healthy Middle Eastern cuisine. They prepare everything from quibbes, fatayer (meat or chicken turnovers), malfuf (stuffed cabbage leaves) and parra (stuffed grape leaves)($0.35-1.55) to stuffed...
Valledupar, Colombia
Where do Valduparenses go when the setting sun paints the sky? To Café de las Madres, tucked behind Parque de las Madres. The wrought-iron garden tables fill quickly with colleagues and couples meeting to have an Atardecer Vallenato (cappuccino and whiskey, $3.20) or one of the creative coffee...
Valledupar, Colombia
You don’t have to come to Valledupar in April to catch live Vallenato music. Any weekend night, Bartolomé is just about the only place in town in the off-season where you can catch conjuntos playing those delightfully down-to-earth melodies. Join the crowd in downing some traguitos (shots) and...
Valledupar, Colombia
Valledupar’s resident Chinese restaurant, Muralla China, has over 80 Sino dishes as well as a few international ones. Start off your meal with lumpia (eggrolls, $2.90 for two) or a seafood cocktail ($8-13.70) before moving on to one of the classic Chinese plates, in either half or full order:...
Valledupar, Colombia
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