PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

This eclectic restaurant not only serves some of the city's freshest seafood, it's also a fun place to dine. Housed in a 140-year-old home, the restaurant is owned by one charismatic Jorge "Coco" Pacheco, who gave the place its name: "Here's Coco." Coco traveled the world for several years and culled hundreds of nutty maritime knickknacks that he used to decorate the interiors, giving the place a decidedly kitsch atmosphere. But it's the fish that brings them back every time. An oversize menu offers every kind of seafood available in Chile, including hake, swordfish, cod, sea bass, tuna, and shellfish, and a host of tantalizing seafood appetizers such as crab cakes or broiled scallops in a barnacle sauce. I recommend the trout stuffed with king crab and a thermidor (lobster bechamel) sauce -- I order it every time I eat here. Attentive service and a menu in English are reasons you'll see many gringos here, but Chileans love Aquí Está Coco, too. Note that the restaurant has a good selection of meat dishes for those not fond of seafood.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Chile & Easter Island, 2nd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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