Where to Eat in La Ceiba: Baleadas, Garifuna Food and Seafood

Eating in La Ceiba is part of the trip. The city mixes everyday Honduran cooking with the Garifuna flavors of the coast and fresh Caribbean seafood. Here is what to try and where to find it.

Dishes you can’t miss

• Baleada: Honduras’ favorite breakfast (and lunch, and dinner). A large flour tortilla with refried beans, cheese and mantequilla (Honduran sour cream); a baleada “con todo” adds egg, avocado or meat.
• Tapado: Garifuna fish and seafood soup with coconut milk and green plantain.
• Machuca: mashed plantain served with a coconut fish broth, another Garifuna classic.
• Fried fish with tajadas: a whole fried fish with green plantain chips, best eaten by the sea.
• Sopa de caracol: conch soup with coconut, so famous it has its own song.
• Pan de coco: soft coconut bread, perfect with coffee.

Where to eat

• Baleadas and Honduran fast food: Super Baleadas and Super Pollo Express.
• Something different: Cuban food at Sabor Cubano.
• Seafood by the sea: the Zona Viva in the La Isla neighborhood, and the small restaurants in Corozal and Sambo Creek.
• Authentic Garifuna cooking: in the coastal communities; read our Garifuna culture guide.
• Coffee for events: The Brew.

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Tips

• Carry cash in lempiras: many small restaurants don’t take cards.
• Drink purified or bottled water.
• Tips aren’t always included; around 10% is usual in restaurants.

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