World's 50 Best #48 (2025) and Latin America's 50 Best #6 (2024) — chef Jaime Rodríguez's celebration of Caribbean biodiversity using ancestral Colombian ingredients in a Getsemaní colonial house. a significant restaurants in Colombia.
Why It Belongs on the List
Celele is a significant restaurants in the Americas — chef Jaime Rodríguez spent two years surveying Colombia's Caribbean territory, inventorying ingredients and techniques almost unknown to the outside world, before opening in Getsemaní in 2018. The result is a menu of extraordinary Caribbean flower salad with pickled cashews, Caribbean crab of stunning depth, confit gallina criolla, and squid with plantain dumplings — dishes that taste like the Caribbean reinvented. World's 50 Best #48 (2025); Latin America's 50 Best #6 (2024). Book weeks ahead; it sells out. The restaurant is small (12 tables), located in an unassuming Getsemaní colonial house.
What Stands Out
- World’s 50 Best #48 (2025)
- Latin America’s 50 Best #6 (2024)
- Chef Jaime Rodríguez
- Caribbean biodiversity-driven ingredients
- Caribbean flower salad signature dish
- 12 tables only — book weeks ahead
- Getsemaní location
- Most important restaurant in Colombia