Via Via
Good coffee. Safe salads and some interesting mains make this a place to head for. The views and frozen Naranjada are excellent. Popular with well to do locals as well as the few gringos in these parts. Free WiFi. Nice atmosphere.
The Cafe of the University
unsh(?) is in the atrium of a lovely colonial building besides the cathedral at the plaza de armas.
Magia Negra (Black Magic)
A few blocks from the plaza de armas. serves pizza, is a bit upscale and comfortable for americans and a foose ball table
Don't miss the best hamburgers ever
Served by the street vendors near the plaza at night. perfect drunken food. you should get the 'triple'. you can get it with a cheap thin hamburger, egg, hotdogs, potatoe sticks, olive mayonase. it is recommended to get it "sin lechuga" without lettuce as lettuce is supposed to particularly harbor micro-organisms. don't eat too many.