Zona T

This guide to Zona T in Bogotá starts at the bar Andrés D.C., where a menu running past sixty pages sets the tone for a district whose name is just the plain T-shape its streets trace underfoot. You'll hear how a car-choked intersection got closed to traffic in the 1990s and turned, almost by accident, into one of the city's densest strips of restaurants and rooftop bars, and how one theatrical restaurant built four floors around a loose telling of heaven and hell. Listen for how staff shape a night around the occasion you tell them.