The ground floor of Edificio Bacatá — the tallest tower in Colombia — has four useful stops for anyone in central Bogotá. Each is for a different errand. Here’s the breakdown.
The big café with the floral wall.
Calle 19 #5-30, Planta 1 Burbuja 7. Café Quindío is a chain rooted in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero coffee region and one of the more polished examples of a Colombian-coffee café. The Bacatá location is larger and more design-forward than most of their outlets: warm decor, generous seating, the much-photographed artificial flower wall, and a retail counter for buying whole-bean and ground coffee, gourmet products, and gifts.
Treverete vs Café Quindío — full comparison →
The small, quiet one. No posted menu.
Right next to Café Quindío. Independent, much smaller, runs as a café by day and a wine-and-music room by evening. The latte is excellent — better, in my opinion, than the latte at Café Quindío next door. Live music on select evenings (check their Instagram for who’s playing). The thing first-time visitors don’t expect: no posted menu, no listed prices. You walk in, ask what they have, ask the price, order.
Why the latte → · Why no menu →
The ice cream branch — not the full restaurant.
Crepes & Waffles is one of the most recognized Colombian restaurant brands. The Bacatá location is their Heladería — ice cream and crepe format, not the full sit-down restaurant menu. Calle 19 #5-30, Burbuja B6. Open Mon–Sun 10am–10pm.
Menu lean: sweet crepes (Nutella, dulce de leche, banana), savory crepes (ham & cheese, classic), Belgian-style waffles (with caramel, with Nutella, with ice cream), and their artisanal ice cream by the scoop or in cones. Family-friendly, brighter and busier than Treverete.
Treverete vs Crepes & Waffles — full comparison →
The supermarket. Useful for picking up something on the way out.
Carulla is one of Colombia’s upper-tier supermarket chains — a step up in selection and presentation from the everyday Éxito. The Bacatá ground-floor Carulla is a smaller in-building format suited to people working in the tower picking up groceries on the way home, but it’s useful for visitors too: ready meals, wine and beer, packaged Colombian coffee, fresh fruit, baked goods, basic toiletries.
Here’s the practical order you’d walk through them if you started at the main Calle 19 entrance:
If you have an hour: start with a latte at Treverete, then walk into Café Quindío for a bag of whole-bean coffee to take home, glance into Crepes & Waffles for an ice cream on the way out, and grab a bottle of something at Carulla if you’re heading back to an Airbnb. That’s the loop.