La Puerta Falsa Restaurant
Centuries-old eatery beside the cathedral, known for tamales and cheese-melted hot chocolate.
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This guide to La Puerta Falsa Restaurant in Bogotá begins on July 16, 1816, when a woman remembered only as La Chozna laid out refreshments for neighbors beside the cathedral, and the parish priest objected that she hadn't asked his permission. You'll hear what he told her food belonged to, and how she answered him by buying a narrow corridor against the cathedral's side entrance. Listen for how a stubborn reply to one priest turned into a name that outlived the door itself.
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