Gusina Garífuna

The 21 Best Restaurants in Guatemala City | Eater

"It’s a long way from the capital to Livingston, Guatemala’s Garifuna settlement on the country’s Caribbean coast, but you should at least make time for a meal at this Zona 1 restaurant by husband-and-wife team Carlos Caballeros and Karla Pacheco. Opened in 2012, the restaurant serves Caribbean and Garifuna cuisine like shrimp and fish ceviches made tangy cocktail style with a mix of shrimp stock, chopped tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and squirts of ketchup; grilled sea snail in a saffron-coconut sauce; and steamed Caribbean lobster in garlic-butter sauce. Try traditional Garifuna dishes like tapado (tapou) — a sweet, starchy seafood soup of fish, shrimp, and crab in coconut milk stock, crammed into a bowl with yucca, banano verde, and sweet plantains — or machuca, a whole fish stew of coconut milk thickened with mashed plantain, basil, and zamat, a pungent wild herb." - Bill Esparza