El Rincón de Lucy
Salento's best-known budget set-menu restaurant: soup, main course and drink for under COP 20,000, with the trout main course the most recommended.
This homely eatery is on Calle 2 (4-45). It has no printed menu; staff call out the day's set menu (menú del día): a soup, a juice or lemonade, and a main course chosen from trout, chicken, sausage and similar, served with rice, beans and plantain. The menu changes daily and portions are generous. In 2025 diners reported that the set costs about COP 16,000–18,000, making it the best-value meal in town. Cash only, and tables are often shared at mealtimes. Opening hours are irregular. If the day's menu is not posted at the door, the restaurant is closed. It is about five minutes' walk from the central square.
Opening hours
Roughly daily 11:30–21:30 (weekends may be lunch only; hours vary)
Nearby sights
- Calle Real & Plaza de Bolívar, Salento
- Mirador Alto de la Cruz
- Finca Don Elías
- Finca El Ocaso
- Barbas–Bremen Reserve
- Cementerio Libre de Circasia
- Otún Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary
- Cocora Valley