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Nightlife · Bogotá

Andrés Carne de Res, Chía

6 hoursMax 12Easy

Before you book this one

Chía is around 45 minutes outside Bogotá and this finishes very late. A pre-booked return car is included for good reason — do not plan to find one at 3am.

A restaurant the size of a village, built out of scrap metal, fairy lights and about four decades of accumulated madness, where dinner turns into dancing on the tables at some undefined point. There is nothing else like it anywhere.

What you do

  • A menu that runs to dozens of pages and is partly a joke
  • Grilled meat that is genuinely excellent under all the chaos
  • Live bands, roving performers, total sensory overload
  • Dancing, eventually, everywhere, including on furniture

As a private booking

Table booked in the section you actually want, a host through the evening, and a private car for the 45-minute run back into Bogotá.

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Practical notes for Bogotá

  • Altitude is real. At 2,640 m the air holds about a quarter less oxygen than at sea level. Give yourself 24–48 hours before anything strenuous, drink more water than feels necessary, and go easy on alcohol the first night. Altitude sickness is uncommon here but not unheard of.
  • It is colder than you expect. People pack for the Caribbean and shiver. Bogotá sits at 8–19 °C. Bring a warm layer and a rain shell — the weather changes within an hour and the rain is sideways.
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