La Paz · Food

The old covered market beside Plaza San Francisco, rebuilt between 2008 and 2010 for more than a thousand traders. Stalls do salteñas, relleno de carne, anticuchos and api con pastel; entry is free and it runs 07:00–21:00 Monday to Saturday and 08:00–17:00 on Sunday.

The street produce market in San Pedro where much of the city actually shops, spilling over several blocks with vegetables, fruit, chicken and pork. It is a working market rather than somewhere to sit down; go for the stalls and the fruit.

The part of town paceños go out to eat in rather than shop in. Most of the city's proper restaurants are within a few blocks of the plaza, and they serve later than anything in the centre.

The salteña is a juicy baked pasty eaten standing up between about nine and noon, alongside api con pastel — hot purple maize with a fried pastry. Both are market food and both are made in a fixed quantity: when the stall sells out, it shuts.