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Eating and drinking
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Though there are several cheap
restaurants
in Colon serving the delicious local cuisine - usually seafood cooked to spicy Caribbean recipes - most are in dangerous parts of the city. In the evening, you are better off eating in or near your hotel.
Cafe Nacional , C 11 with Guerrero. Popular, with good, inexpensive food and a convenient location, which is fairly safe during the day. Closed Sun. Cristobal Yacht Club , on the seafront inside the Cristobal port enclosure. The open-air restaurant, serving decent seafood, is expensive, but the atmospheric bar, shaped like a ship's prow, is a good place to hang out if you're looking for work as a linehandler on a yacht transiting the canal or heading out into the Caribbean.
Restaurante Hotel Internacional
, on the ground floor of the hotel. Standard Panamanian and international food from about US$5, particularly good for breakfast. The rooftop bar (closed Sun), open to hotel guests only, is a good place to drink a sundowner and watch the ships lit up in the harbour at night while the city rages below. Other useful information
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Panama,
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