Corner "The Pipeño."
In 1962, the train is still undergoing Santiago City by cutting the current Placer Street in the neighborhood of Franklin, there on the edge of the former slaughterhouse district. That year, a block of railway lines, marriage Pérez-Alarcón opened a bar that was destined to be one of the most important of our metropolis. First bare floor and walls with obsolescent, there in the proximity of the famous Persian Biobío their pīpene Maule area have given national fame and prestige that only share the best local food and drinks typical of Chile.
Much has changed in this neighborhood since then, the trains no longer pass through it, several factories have been closed and trade shifted more towards the side of Grand Avenue. However, the restaurant and bar "The Pipeño" is there in the corner of Tocornal 2207, Biobío street, behind that metal door that earned him the nickname "The Gate of Tin", as it was known until recently years when those doors closed at night to leave all your enfiestados saved people.
As before there were a number of casks of wine at the local level (today only a few), also called "The Pipe", although we know there are other famous venues in San Francisco street, on Avenida Macul and Einstein street that already have this name. These pīpene have such a rate that in the same block as separate sales and distribution company with a liquor store right across the room, in Tocornal 2240, where they sell wine, chicha, spirits and products from the commended Viña Santa María de San Javier, property also the owners of this bowling. A little further on, is also the repair of pipes, so this whole block is taken by the aromas of sweet and crystalline Pipeño traded there.
Access, Tocornal street.
The "earthquake" "The Pipeño."
One of those classic glass bottles for milk, which is used on site to serve some drinks to customers.
The two rooms of the restaurant-bar "The Pipeño" is a site of worship, with some occasional presentations cuequeros and other musicians. The kitchen is seen behind a glass, the bar extends outside the entrance, under the supervision of a painting of the Virgen del Carmen. Its most popular foods are pork, ribs, hams, firm, legs of pork, rolled and sausages. It would be a nightmare for some non-Christian religions although there are pots, and beef tenderloin to poor , Sanguchito several , empanadas and complete . The drinks are equally chilenazos: Pipeño, red wine, chicha, chicha, and the usual Pipeño "earthquake" , in this restaurant is known for being one of the best and most famous in the capital. All at very attractive prices and convenient.
Its current owner Dona Ana María Pérez, served personally on the premises, giving a characteristic of closeness with the audience that has always preserved. In 2003, remodeled much of the site and leaving it more dignified some characteristics of its older and more rustic look when it was "The Gate of Lata" receiving since then several hundreds of customers every day, from ten in the morning until eleven at night, approximately. According to a report in the newspaper "The Fourth" have been loyal customers of The Pipeño "the illustrious Caupolicán Peña, Carlos Bombal, Victor Hugo Castaneda and Martin Vargas.
of rolled sandwiches.
View bar (with the "pattern" of the inn).
Main Hall of The Pipeño. "
Preparation "earthquakes" at the bar.
My friend John, tour guide ideal for urban trekking in the main room.
From the time the local access was decorated with various pipes, only two barrels of remembrance near the entrance. However, the business still retains much of the historic decor that has always characterized typically Chilean. The owners retain certain distinctive fetishes: wine served in beautiful bottles of milk that existed before, such that they can cover soft. They also accompany all with a tasty feasts of pebre potecillo or chili.
the local front, the distributor of spirits, also makes a kind of symbiosis with the bar: it is a sanctuary of the vine and even has the same name: "The Pipeño." Looks more like a wine museum with antique bottles and a huge jug which is usually filled to the top of sparkling chicha for thirsty throats, especially in times of national holidays. Calculation to be about 50 or more gallons of brew. On the floor were piled quantities of bottles of red and white. An occasional barrel also decorate this place and their huge warehouses.
There is "The Pipeño" then, waiting with their refreshing luxury wines your visit. Do not miss it!
liquor store and distributor of the front, across the street.
Carafes of red and white wine for sale.
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