2 Days in Arica

Eating around the northern Chilean port city.

Ceviches in Arica’s Terminal Pesquero. Photo: Nicholas Gill.

In the Mercado Colón, a smallish market with faded stalls and wood panel walls in the center of town, I was looking for seafood empanadas. Amidst the signs for paila marina (seafood soup) and pantrucas (flour dumplings in broth) I saw them listed, but every stall was out. When I asked in the b…