Hidden Gem · 3
- Cuchillos Artesanales Llaima (Roberto Alarcón) Melipeuco / Chile
Roberto Alarcón Navarrete is a primary-school teacher in Melipeuco, in Chile's Araucanía region — currently director of Escuela N°10 Llaima, with 35 years in that town and 38 years in teaching overall — who took up knifemaking as a craft and now runs it as a named side business, Cuchillos Artesanales Llaima. store page → · open in the atlas → - Fundación Artesanías de Chile Centro, multiple locations, Santiago
Fundación Artesanías de Chile is a nonprofit that sources handicrafts directly from artisans across the country and sells them through its shops under a fair-trade model. Its range spans Mapuche silver and textiles, lapis lazuli, pottery, basketry and wool. store page → · open in the atlas → - Venture Store Puerto Natales / Chile
Run by the Venture Experiences travel team, this Puerto Natales shop organizes Chilean handicrafts by region: Atacameno alpaca textiles from the north, colonial ceramics and leatherwork from central Chile, and Patagonian Mapuche weavings. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 3
- Fundo Los Nichos Pisco Elqui, Valle del Elqui (near La Serena)
Fundo Los Nichos is a working Chilean pisco distillery, aging spirit in niches cut into rock in the hills above Pisco Elqui instead of a conventional warehouse. The estate sells its reserve piscos and runs tastings directly, roughly an hour's drive up the Elqui Valley from La Serena. store page → · open in the atlas → - Le Mouton Vert Puerto Natales / Chile
Designer Paulina Escobar runs her Marca Chile-certified merino wool atelier and boutique from Carlos Bories 367 in Puerto Natales, turning Patagonian wool into minimalist pieces. Open daily 9am-8pm, in person and online. store page → · open in the atlas → - Parque Lavanda Frutillar Frutillar, Los Lagos, Chile
Lavanda Casa de Té grows lavender above Lake Llanquihue at Frutillar, pairing the fields with a tea house serving 36 teas, pastries and lavender goods. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 23
- Almendrar Puerto Varas / Chile
Chocolatier Paola Devoto built Almendrar around a marzipan recipe found on a trip through southern Chile, now making alfajores, volcanes and bombitas from her Puerto Varas kitchen, shipped nationwide every Monday. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arcial Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile
Arcial shapes decorative pieces from seashells at its workshop on Salvador Allende in Iquique, working largely to custom order for local buyers. The small operation sources shells along the Tarapacá coast and positions its handwork against mass-produced décor. store page → · open in the atlas → - Arte Mix (Terwarte Tejidos y Artesanías) Torres Del Paine / Chile
Arte Mix, trading as Terwarte Tejidos y Artesanías, hand-crochets and knits accessories and clothing from its Puerto Natales shop, alongside wood, metal and glass pieces, taking custom orders by phone, WhatsApp or in person. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artesanía en Madera y Telares Temuco / Chile
This Temuco craft shop sells handmade wood and metal pieces, including carved trays and decorative textile telares, from its storefront on Aillacara street. Products like picadillo trays and wall-hung telares are listed with prices and can be ordered directly through the shop's site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Autoctonitos Torres Del Paine / Chile
Autoctonitos is a wood-craft shop and workshop in Puerto Natales selling handmade wooden pieces alongside made-to-order commissions and craft workshops. The shop keeps regular weekday hours, 10am to 7pm Monday through Friday, and takes orders by phone or WhatsApp. store page → · open in the atlas → - Bazar La Pasión Valpara So / Chile
Bazar La Pasión designs and sells clothing and home objects from its shop on Almirante Montt in Valparaíso, working with sustainable, locally sourced fabrics and Chilean wool for its made-to-order coats and jackets. The full collection is also available through the shop's own online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cerveceria D'Olbek Coyhaique, Aysen
Cerveceria D'Olbek brews on Avenida Baquedano in central Coyhaique, pairing its production with La Taberna, a tavern serving food alongside the beer range. The operation runs a shop selling bottles and merchandise and hosts guided brewery visits under its Experiencia Origen program. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cerveceria Tropera Coyhaique, Aysen
Founded in 2012 by Franco Valdes and Catalina Prieto in Coyhaique, Tropera is an independent Patagonian craft brewery named for the region's cattle-driving 'troperos.' It now brews eight styles across taprooms in Coyhaique, Puerto Varas and Frutillar. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cervecería Fryderup Pucón / Chile
Descended from a family that emigrated from Hamburg to Pucón in 1927, Cervecería Fryderup brews Amber Ale, Bock, and Pilsener with volcanic water from the Huife-Caburga valley, sold through its online shop and points of sale in Pucón and Temuco. The brewery also runs a taproom for tastings by the volcano. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cerámicas Chris La Serena, Chile
Cerámicas Chris relocated its stoneware studio to La Serena, working gres clay into one-off decorative and utilitarian pieces rather than repeating a standard catalogue. Each piece is sold as a unique or limited work through the studio's own site rather than mass produced. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chocolaterie Dominique Puerto Varas / Chile
Founded by Belgian-born chocolatier Dominique Vergeynst, this Puerto Varas shop at Calle Portales 328 makes chocolate bars, pralines, and alfajores blended with wild berries from the Los Lagos region. The chocolateria sells both from its storefront and through an online shop with nationwide shipping. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chocolatería Spezialitäten Puc N / Chile
Following German chocolate-making tradition since 1996, Chocolatería Spezialitäten hand-crafts bonbons, alfajores, and marshmallow treats at its shop at Clemente Holzapfel 430 in Pucón, without industrial machinery. Its full catalog of chocolates, jams, and honey can be browsed and purchased directly through the shop's online store for direct orders. store page → · open in the atlas → - Coffee Culture Coffee Roasters Santiago / Chile
Coffee Culture Coffee Roasters sets its own floor and doesn't go below it: every lot the house sells scores 80 or above on the SCA cupping scale, sourced from Colombia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and roasted to order each week rather than held in inventory. store page → · open in the atlas → - Creaarte Temuco / Chile
Creaarte fills its Temuco storefront at Avenida Las Mariposas 4370 with handcrafted decor pieces, including custom electricity-meter housing covers, and serves customers across Temuco, Padre Las Casas, and Labranza. A recent Google reviewer praised two visits, calling the shop 'excellent' and 'better every day.' store page → · open in the atlas → - La Tetería Santiago / Chile
La Tetería opened its first Santiago location in January 2007 as, by its own account, Chile's first specialized tea store, after two of its founding partners received a blooming tea as a gift from a friend living in France and decided to bring the format to Chile. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lilis (Dulcería Lili's) La Serena, Chile
What began as a small family confectionery in La Serena has grown into a business shipping alfajores and papaya-and-white-chocolate boxes as far as the United States, still made on the same family recipes. Papaya, the valley's local fruit, runs through the range alongside classic dulce de leche alfajores. store page → · open in the atlas → - Müdolph Emporio y Chocolatería Puerto Varas / Chile
Beyond its own chocolates, Mudolph's Walker Martinez shop in Puerto Varas curates a small-producer emporium of honey, maqui berries, smoked goods, and cheeses from partner brands like Bezma and Raymapu. It ships nationwide and offers corporate discounts. store page → · open in the atlas → - Papayas Yáñez Ruta 41, La Serena, Coquimbo
Papayas Yáñez processes the Coquimbo region's signature mountain papaya into preserves, nectar, and candied fruit from its site on Ruta 41 leading out of La Serena. The business is built on a crop that thrives specifically in this stretch of Chile's semi-arid north, rarely grown at this scale further south. store page → · open in the atlas → - Peregrino Coffee Roasters Santiago / Chile
Peregrino Coffee Roasters has been turning over weekly batches of single-origin coffee from Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras since it opened in 2016, alongside its own house blends, keeping the roasting schedule tight enough that freshness stays a constant rather than a claim on the bag. store page → · open in the atlas → - Singular Coffee Roasters Santiago / Chile
In Santiago's Barrio Italia, Singular Coffee Roasters puts its roaster where customers can watch it work, turning green coffee sourced from Colombia, Ethiopia, Honduras, Kenya, Panama, and Rwanda into finished lots in full public view. store page → · open in the atlas → - Taller Fuegos Valpara So / Chile
Taller Fuegos designs and fabricates sterling-silver jewelry, often paired with copper and reclaimed hardwood, at its workshop in Valparaíso, handling the entire process from smelting the metal to the finishing details. The full catalogue of rings, earrings, and pendants inspired by the port city is sold through the studio's own online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Telares Artesanales Del Sur Puerto Varas / Chile
Working from Puerto Varas, Telares Artesanales del Sur turns reused salmon and cowhide leather donated by local saddlers, plus driftwood from Lake Llanquihue, into rings, earrings and traditional witral looms, shipped free across Chile. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tengu Roastery Santiago / Chile
Tengu Roastery treats information as part of the product: every bag carries a printed roast date, and every lot comes with the producer's name, the farm, the altitude, the varietal, and the harvest details, sourced from Colombia, Peru, and Rwanda. store page → · open in the atlas →