Our local gastronomy and meals service

Ayacara cuisine springs directly from the cornucopia of locally-produced seafood and agricultural products. The most representative dish is curanto, a hearty catch-all stew traditionally cooked in a hole in the earth.

Our gastronomy has great variety in menus, ingredients and regional cuisine elements, without sophistication, though taking special care to preserve the natural tastes and flavors.

We offer wide variety of meats (cow, pork, also poultry), so much linked to the local traditions. Upon request we serve also vegetarian meals cooked with organic grown vegetables at our garden and greenhouse.

If you are fond of seafood you will greatly enjoy discovering the diversity of shellfish and fishes collected on the shore by the lodge which is undoubtedly free of any pollution. The richness in seafood originated a typical regional dish "curanto."

We have our own organic garden and a greenhouse, with a great variety of fresh vegetables and an apple orchard.

Chile has become one of the world biggest wine exporters so Chilean excellent wine quality is now worldwide known. We have a rich wine cellar with tasty Chilean wines which go greatly with our meals, we offer also good national beers option.

At the beginning of the day, before we set off for the adventure outdoor sports, we offer hearty breakfast with delicious homemade bread and German patisseries, influence of the German settlers in Southern Chile.

In Ayacara there in no restaurants available so at the El Avellano lodge we offer full boarding service.

Try the local specialties:
· Cancato - grilled fish stuffed with a variety of vegetables, cheese or sausage.
· Curanto - various meats and sausages, fishes, mollusks and crustaceans, potatoes and corncobs cooked in an earthen pit overlaid with leaves. It's also prepared in a kitchen in a large earthenware pot. However cooked, it is eaten in layers, and usually reserved for major fiestas and holidays with Chilean wine, of course!

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