Top Ten Latin American Countries With the Best Food

The Top Ten
1 Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America, bordered by Colombia and Ecuador to north, Brazil to east, Bolivia to south-east, Chile to south and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Peru is mostly known for being where the Inca people originally came from. The capital of... read more

If you're alive, you're in luck to eat Peruvian food!

Peruvian food has the oldest ingredients from the ancient times in South American. As traditions and countries evolved, the same food tactics around the continent stayed and started to create a lot of different food varieties.

I'm a student and hoping to buy a home soon, and the first thing I'm going to learn is cooking Peruvian food.

The food is fantastic, the ingredients are sometimes hard to find depending where you live, and it doesn't take too much time once you get used to making these incredible plates.

I recommend you to find a Peruvian restaurant around your area but make sure it has good reviews for best taste results!

2 Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a federal republic located in North America. The country is located between the U.S. and Central America, and is known for its Pacific and Gulf of Mexico beaches and its diverse landscape of mountains, deserts, and jungles.

People that have tried mexican food and call it overrated usually have only had bad tacos and burritos and think that they've had the best mexican cuisine has to offer. Mexico is the home of Chocolate, Corn, Tomatoes, Avacados etc the sheer amount of variety in food from a dozen different types of Mole which is a blend of spices and chocolate and meat to a dozen different type of tamales (Corn mass with meat inside) is stagering. Not to mention mexico is huge, what you eat in the deserts of sinaloa is not what they eat in the jungles of chiapas or the urban spawl of Mexico city.

It doesn't make sense to place Mexico fourth since all latin American food has a foundation in Mexican food, we are the home of chocolate, tomatoes, corn, Chiles, and so on it doesn't make any sense.

I'm sorry but I think that Mexican food is not as great as what you thought. Some people love it some people don't, like every type of food. And by the way most of latin American food does't have foundation in Mexico.

It taste good but that's about it...on the other hand, Peru has more flavors and variety of dishes. It appears than half of the Mexican population do not agree that their food is the best.

3 Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately 181,034 square kilometers (69,898 sq mi) and has a population of an estimated 3.51 million, of whom 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo.

All the immigration from Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany etc...brought all the best from those nations to Uruguay. I grew up eating pasta, cabbage rolls, asado, tortilla espanola, shepherd's pie, casoulet, schnitzel...what's not to like?

4 Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Colombian food is by far the best because I am from there

Colombia has the best food of South America

Colombian food is terrible. Sorry.

Colombian food will always top

5 Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers (3,300,000 sq mi) and with over 214 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; as well as the most populous ...read more.

Brazil is so huge you can find absolutely different dishes from south to north. The only difficult thing to find out is which one is more delicious.

Brazilian food is unknowned for the vast majority of people. That's why is not considered the first.

Look, Ceviche sucking Peru, oily tortilla Mexico, no culture Uruguay, and meh Colombia, no country beats Brazil. we’re the only country that speaks anything but Spanish in Latin America and have the BEST food. Don’t assume..

Very diverse country so theres all kinds of food and cultures

6 Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, ...read more.

The Uruguayan Culture and its gastronomy is the one of Argentina...

Che uruguay stole argentina

Were the best

7 Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Underrated and even comparable with Peru! So varied that there's a different traditional plate and drink by region

Best variety. Excellent

Incomparable very good

Best food ever

8 Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America.

The food is trash

9 El Salvador El Salvador, officially known as the Republic of El Salvador, holds the distinction of being the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.

The country is renowned for its numerous volcanoes, delectable cuisine, and charming small towns and villages... read more

The best gastronomic country because of the fresh Vegetables

Food is so diverse and flavorful

10 Dominican Republic

Dominican cuisine is comprised of many inheritance. Its food is predominantly made up of a combination of Spanish, indigenous Taíno, and African influences. As well as many Middle-Eastern and Asian dishes have been adopted into Dominican cuisine which makes this cuisine quite unique.

It's is good casue the beans are task and and they season the chicken and meat with real things

Good food, similar to Puerto Rico. a lot of fried potato and banana

The Contenders
11 Nicaragua

The rice is very well done. El bajo is to die for gallo pinto vigoron. La fritaga hands down the best from central america

12 Bolivia Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is located in western-central South America.

Bolivian food has so much variety and its very tasty, one of the best soups tried in my life was sopa de mani

13 Honduras Honduras is a country in Central America that became an independent nation on September 15, 1821. Unfortunately, this country has been plagued with extreme poverty and violence. These conditions have forced its citizens to flee, making it unwelcoming and disliked by many.
14 Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a transcontinental country in Central America and South America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan ...read more.

It has better food than colombia

15 Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

Complex flavors from chilies, seeds, and cacao combined with a variety of meats and vegetables. The mayan heritage of food is highly underrated, perhaps to the limited authentic restaurants outside the country.

Really good food, Best Latino country ever!

My home country'

16 Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
17 Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a sovereign state comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

Cuban food in Miami is the best food.

They have... food?

18 Costa Rica
19 Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica; occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 ...read more.
20 Haiti

Haiti isn't a Latin American country.

Haiti is a latin country

There's no food in Haiti

21 Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.
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