Our Take on Bar Las Tejas
For 102 years Bar Las Tejas held a corner of Calle San Diego, long enough for actor Daniel Muñoz to baptize it the Palacio del Terremoto and for the name to go up in big letters over the bar. La Tercera covered the 2022 closure and the move a few blocks west to Paseo Bulnes, at the corner of Alonso de Ovalle.
The new room trades the old Teatro Roma building it had occupied since 1942 for a brighter, gastronomy first format. What survived the move: the terremoto, the chorrillana, and a clientele that treats both as national heritage.
Reading the Room
Paseo Bulnes is the monumental pedestrian axis south of La Moneda, government architecture on both sides, and the bar's tables now spill onto it. Inside, the memorabilia compresses a century into one room. BioBioChile recorded that the San Diego building fell to real estate development; the spirit relocated intact.
The Menu, Edited
Who Shows Up, and When
Prices stay picada level: this remains one of the cheapest serious lunches within five blocks of La Moneda, and portions assume you skipped breakfast.
Office workers and ministry staff fill the lunch hours; afternoons bring the faithful from the San Diego era. The cumbia bands that started here, Chico Trujillo and Santaferia among the names the press cites, no longer fit the new format, but the jukebox memory lingers.
The Word on the Street
- La Tercera's Finde section greeted the Paseo Bulnes reopening as the return of a classic with all its flavor and tradition.
- BioBioChile recorded the San Diego farewell under the headline the Palacio del Terremoto moves.
- Mango Merken lists it among Santiago's heritage picadas worth protecting.
Go, or Skip
- First timers who owe themselves a terremoto in its birthplace
- A lunch near La Moneda with a century of backstory
- Avoid if you want craft anything; this is heritage drinking
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