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( 2360-3035; 11a Calle 3-36, Zona 10; mains Q100-200; 12pm-1am Mon-Sat, noon-6pm Sun; )
With a
beautiful courtyard setting, this is widely regarded as the city's best Italian restaurant. The
menu features a huge selection of antipasto, pizza, pasta, meat and seafood dishes.
FUSION
Tamarindos $$$
( 2360-2815; 11a Calle 2-19, Zona 10; mains Q110-180; 12:30-2pm & 7:30-10:30pm Mon-Sat; )
A chic
and delicious Asian/Italian restaurant with a Guatemalan twist. There's an inspiring range
of salads on offer and some very good Japanese and Thai-inspired dishes. The decor is
stylish and service prompt but friendly.
Drinking & Nightlife
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6
Zona 1
Staggering from bar to bar about the darkened streets of Zona 1 is not recommended, but
fortunately there's a clutch of good drinking places all within half a block of each other
just south of the Parque Central.
KNOWING EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE
Guatemala City, like (almost) all Guatemalan towns, is laid out on a logical street grid. Avenidas run north-south;
calles run east-west. Each avenida and calle has a number, with the numbers usually rising as you move from
west to east and north to south. Addresses enable you to pinpoint exactly which block a building is in, and which
side of the street it's on. The address 9a Av 15-24 means building No 24 on 9a Av in the block after 15a Calle; 9a
Av 16-19 refers to building No 19 on 9a Av in the block after 16a Calle; 4a Calle 7-3 is building No 3 on 4a Calle
in the block after 7a Av. Odd-numbered buildings are on the left-hand side as you move in the rising-numbers dir-
ection; even numbers are on the right.
In addition, most cities and towns are divided into a number of zonas - 25 in Guatemala City, fewer in other
places. You need to know the zona as well as the street address, for in some places the numbers of avenidas and
calles are repeated in more than one zona. Beware, too, of a couple of other minor wrinkles in the system. Short
streets may be suffixed 'A,' as in 14a Calle A, which will be found between 14a Calle and 15a Calle. In some
smaller towns and villages no one uses street names, even when they're posted on signs.
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