In Valparaiso the mafia doesn’t live on spaghetti with meatballs (as they do in the movies but not in Italy) but on sandwiches and salads. ‘La mafia come bien’ is a cheerful sandwich, salad and pasta place near Plaza Victoria. We paid CLP2.200 for a well presented and colourful tuna salad, no dressing just straight up, and had a tasty egg-ham-cheese sandwich for CLP1.600 and we enjoyed the fresh, cold and above-all not too sweet fruit juices. My ‘cafe cortado’ tasted as a cortado should but was not hot enough. Service is informal but friendly, the music loud, cheerful and jazzy and the bar and decor simple but young and attractive. A new feel good place for healthy snackers.
La Mafia come bien. Edwards 614 (near Plaza Victoria). Click here for our google map .
Update 17feb09: ‘the mafia’ seems to have disapeared. Legal problems? :-)
thanks for the review… i’ve been meaning to check this place out… and i will for a lunch sometime soon.
Unfortunately, the Mafia does not eat anymore… we went today and found the doors locked, chairs gone, the place seemed abandoned. A neighbour told us they closed down after “problems”. Too bad, it was nice new place.
Desafortunadamente parece que la mafia ya no tiene hambre: fuimos hoy y encontramos las puertas con candado, sillas desaparecidas y un lugar más o menos abandonado. Un vecino nos contó que cerraron después de “problemas”. Es una lástima, me gustó la idea.