El Peñascal — Restaurant in Cobán

Whenever I visit Cobán, I never miss the opportunity to have dinner at the Peñascal. With its nice and clean atmosphere it is the best place to enjoy the local cuisine. You can try the Kaq Ik which is the most famous and delicious local dish. It is a tasty turkey stew served with chile cobanero and tamales made of white corn dough. It is accompanied by kakaw, a bitter hot cocoa beverage served in calabash husks. Also the steak in cardamom sauce and the sub'anik (stew with four meats) are very typical and delicious dishes. It's true that also in the capital these dishes are served, but only in Cobán you'll get the...

It was expensive and they didn't even served natural orange juice. My plate was a simple chicken with rice and it was like 8 dollars, for guatemalan people that's overpriced for foreigns Idk, and in the end when they brought the bill they wanted to charge me like 3 more dollars, luckily I checked the sum instead of just paying, I hope that's not something they do in a regular basis. The 4 star review has a...

The food in Coban is different from other regions in Guatemala. Definitely different from in the Capital

I started with a gourd of Cacao. Cocoa to us but with soft chewy chunks of cacao in it. Thinner than what we are used to, made with boiling hot water, sweet and Delicious. Made from the cacao bean, not powder.

With the cacao they serv a flavorful sauce called Teu that you put on or dip...