Fodor's Expert Review La Choza

The mood, music, and menu are strictly Ecuadoran in this restaurant. It's across the street from Quito's World Trade Center and draws a large business clientele. There's a garden dining area if you prefer outdoors to indoors. Pastry stuffed with lobster, ricotta, and spinach—baked and topped with fresh mussels, clams, and prawns and covered with a tomato-cream sauce—is one of the mouthwatering specialties here.