Tegucigalpa - Post Report Question and Answers
What typical restaurants, food delivery services, and/or takeout options are popular among expatriates?
Popular foods here?! Eating out has been disappointing, however the highlight has been some Garifuna foods at events, and maybe a few of the breakfast options at La cuisinette and La creperia. Other than that, I don't find pupusas enjoyable and restaurants aren't flavorful. - Mar 2024
We use Hugo for meal delivery. Most of the restaurants are not very good so we sticks with a handful of restaurants we like. - Jan 2024
Hugo and Pedidos Ya are commonly used food delivery apps. However, it seems to be only a matter of time before your US credit card gets you kicked off the app and you have to go cash only. Amex does not seem to work with Hugo, even though customer service will tell you that they take it. Asian food is pretty hit or miss...they have their own Honduran-ized version of Chinese food that doesn't always satisfy. There are so many restaurant options, it's hard to start listing them all. When we want to eat out, it can be difficult to pick a restaurant because there are enough good restaurants that you cannot decide. Not amazing...but good. There is even a gluten-free restaurant and a separate gluten-free bakery to serve the community. US chains like Pizza Hut, Domino's, Little Caesar's, Popeyes, Fridays, Wendy's, McDonald's, KFC, etc seem to do really well here. - Aug 2023
Hugo is UBER EATS for Tegus. - Feb 2022
Almost all US fast food chains are here. Other U.S. chains include TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesdays, and Denny's. There are some very good restaurants (La Hacienda, La Cumbre, NiFu NiFa, some good Sushi places too) that tend to be a little on the expensive side. There are also dozens of middle-range restaurants. - Oct 2019
The food is not great, mediocre at best. The food is better up north on the coast. Everything is bland or too salty. - Jul 2018
There are options for all tastes. There are Honduran-style grill places (even a newly-opened high-end one called La Bonita that offers innovative takes on Honduran classics), all the US junk food joints (Pizza Hut, Popeyes, McDonalds, etc.), lots of excellent ceviche and seafood in general, Peruvian, US-style burger joints, Italian, French, lots of Chinese food (think New York takeout, not ultra-authentic haute Szechuan cuisine). Families like to go to junk food places or a handful of nicer restaurants that have in-house playgrounds, since public parks are scarce in Tegucigalpa. - May 2018
The food might be one of the most disappointing parts of Honduras. There is no food culture (or any other form of culture) here. The most famous plato tÃpico here is the baleada - which is just a tortilla with refried beans and cheese on it. If you get a fancy baleada you'll get some steak, egg and/or avocado on it. The food is a little better on the North coast, at least there is fresh fish and the food is more in the style of typical Caribbean/Latin American food. Restaurants in Teguc are also disappointing. Everything is over-salted, and they throw MSG cubitos into everything. A few new restaurants have opened nearby, but the quality of food is already deteriorating. You can find other ethnic food here - e.g., Indian, Thai, Chinese, but you need to have VERY low expectations, as it is the "Honduran-version" of Indian, Thai, or Chinese. - May 2018
The restaurant scene here isn't totally barren. Tegucigalpa does pizza and chicken well, otherwise the food here is boring. Arno (French), Domo Pizza, Claudio's (Italian) are some of the highlights. There is one semi-fancy restaurant with a nice view of the city - La Cumbre. Most of the restaurants will deliver but the challenge is getting a working phone number and finding a menu online. There's an online delivery service called Que Rico that works. Overall there are a decent number of restaurants, but the food is bland and even at the decent places the quality can vary from day to day. The service is also seems terrible to me; ask for a check as soon as your food arrives. After enough disappointing meals I've stopped eating out much and just cook at home. - Apr 2018
All lower level fast food chains are here. Harder to find natural quality food options. Exceptions are La Cumbre, Arnot's and Marjaba. - Jun 2016
- Most fast food restaurants are here. Below average prices. - Feb 2016
Most fast food is available, and there are nice restaurants. U.S. prices. - Aug 2015
The good restaurants are at US prices. I'm a picky eater, so I don't really go to the middle range or fast food restaurants. - Jul 2015
The good restaurants are at DC/New York prices, the decent restaurants are sometimes ok, the fast food is awful in my opinion. - Dec 2014
Almost like being in the United States; all the fast food is here. - Oct 2014
Too many fast food places :) Some very good steak places. - Sep 2014
Every single fast food place you can think of; it's fast food paradise. All cheap. Applebees, Chilis, Ruby Tuesday, Los Cebollines. Good local restaurants are few and far between but the standouts are excellent. - Aug 2014
Sadly, there are many fast food places but also a good variety of other options. - Jun 2014
All kinds of fast food is available as are some good Chinese options in addition to good sushi and steak places. - Mar 2014
Fast food - Hondurans love it. It's all here: McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, Popeye's, Dunking Donuts, and Wendy's. - Jan 2014
Almost all fast food sadly plus a couple of good steak houses and sushi and chinese places. - Oct 2013
Almost all the fast food groups are here except tacos by Bell :) Also some good seafood and steak places. - Jun 2013
Every US chain you can imagine is there. Local food is not very good, except pupusas. Not a lot of variety available. - Jun 2013
All major chains from the U.S. are here. The cost is about the same or maybe a bit more than in the U.S. - Apr 2013
All the U.S. fast and slow chains it seems. - Nov 2009
KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robins, Church's chicken, Wendy's, Subway, Chili's, TGI Fridays, Applebees, Tony Romas. There are lots of decent american chains and great local restaurants, too. There isn't a lot of ethnic food, like Indian or Thai. There are lots of terrible chinese restaurants around. We found one good one that everyone goes to. It's called the "Mongolian Restaurant". - Oct 2009
