The 1912 picada that invented the terremoto, reborn on Avenida Condell after 112 years beside Estación Central.
El Hoyo opened in 1912 beside Estación Central as a railway warehouse that learned to cook, and it spent the next 112 years becoming the most storied picada in Chile. The historic San Vicente site served its last table in December 2024, and the house reopened in July 2025 at Avenida Condell 818 in Barrio Italia with more tables and longer hours, a move The Clinic covered closely.
You come for the things this room gave the country: the terremoto, invented here, and a kitchen Anthony Bourdain praised on camera in 2010. The address changed. The point of the place did not.
The new room trades the uneven colonial floors that named the original for a bigger Barrio Italia space, but the long shared tables and the wall of history made the journey. The owner told The Clinic the goal was to keep the spirit of the picada intact, down to the same prietas and cazuelas.
Come at midday for the full lunch theater. The room is loudest and best when the pernil starts landing on tables.
Lunch brings multigenerational Santiago families and office tables that stay too long. Evenings lean younger now that Barrio Italia foot traffic passes the door.
La Hora reported regulars celebrating the reopening within days. Expect a wait on weekends; the room seats more than the old house but the name draws accordingly.
What to order
- 01
A terremoto
- 02
Pipeño by the jug
- 03
Arrollado and pernil