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

Food in La Ceiba blends everyday Honduran cooking with Caribbean and Garifuna flavors: coconut, plantain, seafood and fresh fish. Here are the dishes you have to try and where to find them.

Dishes you have to try

Honduran baleada with beans, cheese and cream — **Baleada**A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, crumbled cheese and Honduran cream. Order it plain or add egg, avocado or meat. It works for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Fried fish with sides — **Fried fish**A whole fried fish served with plantain, cabbage salad and lime. The classic meal by the sea.

Garifuna hudutu (mashed plantain) — **Garifuna hudutu**Fish in coconut broth with machuca: green and ripe plantain pounded in a wooden mortar. Try it in the Garifuna villages along the coast.

Typical Honduran plate with meat, sausage and plantain — **Typical plate**Grilled beef, sausage, beans, cheese, cream, fried plantain, avocado and corn tortillas. A bit of everything on one plate.

Pork chop with fried plantain chips, Honduran style — **Tajadas**Thin slices of fried green plantain topped with fried chicken or pork chop, cabbage and sauce. Honduran-style fast food.

Typical Honduran breakfast — **Honduran breakfast**Eggs, beans, sweet plantain, cheese, cream and tortillas, with a good cup of Honduran coffee.

Also look for

Conch soup (sopa de caracol): a coconut-milk broth with conch, cassava and green plantain, typical of the Caribbean coast.
Coconut bread and casabe: sweet coconut bread and crispy cassava flatbread from the Garifuna communities.
Seafood: shrimp, lobster and ceviche, especially near the beach.
Licuados and fresh juices: mango, pineapple, watermelon or passion fruit, perfect for the heat.
Honduran coffee: Honduras is one of the major coffee producers in the region.

Where to eat in La Ceiba

Zona Viva: the city’s restaurant, bar and nightlife district, near the beach.
The boardwalk and beach: for fried fish and seafood with an ocean view.
Downtown: local eateries, coffee shops and baleada stands at good prices.
Corozal and Sambo Creek: Garifuna villages east of the city, great for hudutu, conch soup and fish straight from the sea.

Restaurants in the directory

Super BaleadasRestaurants & Food Sabor CubanoRestaurants & Food Super Pollo ExpressRestaurants & Food Restaurante La PalapaRestaurants & Food · Avenida 15 de Septiembre, La Ceiba, Atlántida Al CorralRestaurants & Food ApplebeesRestaurants & Food Aqui SopasRestaurants & Food ArenasRestaurants & Food · Sambo Creek y Corozal, Atlántida Asadería NaniRestaurants & Food Asados El GordoRestaurants & Food AvelarsRestaurants & Food Baleadas La DoñaRestaurants & Food

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Coffee shops

The BrewCafés & Bakeries TRÍO CaféCafés & Bakeries · 22 Calle, La Ceiba, Atlántida Trío Café – SolisCafés & Bakeries · Avenida San Isidro, La Ceiba, Atlántida Bay CafeCafés & Bakeries Cafetería DanyCafés & Bakeries Cafetini Muelle de CabotajeCafés & Bakeries

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — Honduran baleada with beans, cheese and cream: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0; Fried fish with sides: madmack66, CC BY 2.0; Garifuna hudutu (mashed plantain): Ted Obermayer, CC BY 2.0; Typical Honduran plate with meat, sausage and plantain: Aleksi Pihkanen from Helsinki, Finland, CC BY 2.0; Pork chop with fried plantain chips, Honduran style: Senchin11, CC BY-SA 4.0; Typical Honduran breakfast: Luis Alfredo Romero, CC BY-SA 4.0.