Casa del Lago Café Cultural

Location:
Moises Brito and Juan Montalvo, near Laguna Las Ninfas
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador

Restaurant

V!VA User‘s Description

The Casa del Lago Cafe Cultural was opened in 2004 by former guide and Imbabura resident Elena Albarado to provide a space for local artists, performers, movie screenings and festivals, special events, and other cultural activities. The cafe serves organic coffee grown on the islands and fantastic coffee drinks, perfectly complemented by helados de paila, homemade ice cream, Enrique Gallo. It also serves tasty and inexpensive breakfasts and vegetarian dishes, including healthy soups, salads, middle-eastern food, and bagels, those "panes raros" (strange breads) that U.S. tourists constantly crave. Internet, musical instruments, and board games are available for short-term use, and paintings and wooden crafts created by local elderly residents Come and enjoy participating in a socially responsible, delicious, and eye-catching (picture windows face the Laguna Las Ninfas) production.

Price Description: Meals in the restaurant start from $4.

Menu Features:
Vegetarian menu

Contact Information:
Phone: 593-098-51-40-15 // 598-09-971-4647
E-mail: galapagoscultural(at)remove-this.hotmail.com
URL: www.galapagoscultural.com

Traveler Reviews of Casa del Lago Café Cultural

Steev Mackaub

Rating: 100%

Exelent

By V!VA User from EEUU, Sep 04, 2005

great coffe place.....

Rating: 100%

I really enjoyed to be in that place, the location is beautiful (close to the Ninfas Lake), the food, the music, to read books .....what I more like is the home made ice cream . I recommend to everybody this place , is unic in this style.

By V!VA User from Alemania, Sep 12, 2005

Sorry, Do not come here for the food.

Rating: 25%

The atmosphere is great, but unfortunately form doesn{t always follow function. The breakfast is much overpriced at $5. The coffee tasted burnt and old and was served cold. The orange juice was extraordinarily sour. The pancake was drizzled with sickening sweet fruit syrup. The tiny fruit salad was nothing to write home about and was served in a tall glass so it was impossible to mix the yogurt and granola throughout the salad. The chairs look really neat but are tiny and uncomfortable. The road is noisy nearby.

By David McLoda, May 24, 2006