This is the best, healthiest food in Oruro. All vegetarian and simple/tasty - Highly recommended. Very inexpensive too!

This restaurant stands alone in an otherwise meat eating culture. It has, however, an excellent Almuerzo del Dia, consisting of a soup main dish, bread, drink and dessert. All prepared deliciously and nutritiously and served in a very friendly atmosphere. A pleasant surprise in this...highland city!More

I ate in this restaurant tonight. As the guy was giving me the menu I sensed something was a little unusual about the way he was looking among the menus available. I speak Spanish and the menu was in Spanish. I dismissed it as nothing...and ordered plato vegetariano. It was only shredded vegetables and a soya burger on top with some chips. To drink I had a fruit juice. Before I paid the bill I asked to see one of the other menus (they are different colours) and the prices on the tourist menu (it was red) are 50% higher than that the locals pay. I was suspicious as there were about 10 other tables new seated while I was eating and nobody else got the red menu. When I challenged them they gave me the lower price. If you like being ripped off and paying 50% more than others for crap food eat here. PS Most restaurants in Oruru have the two menu system whereby tourists pay up to double price. To avoid this I now only eat somewhere where the price is displayed clearly for all to see and wont eat anywhere they hand me a menu. If you can just avoid the place its a dump.More

We went to Govinda on the back of a recommendation in the Lonely Planet, and can honestly say it was the worst food we ate in the entire time we were in Bolivia. Our party of five ordered eight dishes between us and each and...every one was bland, unimaginative and greasy, delivered with surly service too. Oruro is hardly a culinary hotspot, but there are far better places than Govinda in town.More