Fonda Lo Que Hay Panama City

Fonda Lo Que Hay sits on Calle José D. de la Obaldía in Panama City, a short drive from the historic ruins of Panama Viejo. It holds the number 64 spot on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants and ranks number 15 on La Liste.

The room runs smart and elegant, but the cooking is far less guarded than the formal labels suggest. While most of the city’s high-ranking kitchens lean heavily into rigid, continental plating, this place anchors itself in contemporary South American tradition. It is the better choice for those who want technical precision without the stiffness of the capital's more predictable fine-dining institutions. Because the kitchen finds its gravity in local, foundational flavours rather than global trends, the result feels less like a rehearsed performance and more like a precise evolution of the local vernacular.