Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos has been impressing diners in Medellin and Bogota for years with his surprising version of sensory meals that combine neuroscience and food, mixing in Colombian ingredients and techniques. The tasting menu takes you through Barrientos’ unique view of food that challenges you to apply all your senses to your dining experience. The twenty course tasting menu moves you through a world of flavors, textures, and pleasures for your taste buds as well as your eyes and even your ears (some of the courses smoke, crackle and do other unexpected things). It’s not surprising that El Cielo made it to number 46 on the World’s Best Restaurants List for Latin America in 2014. Now he’s taken his creativity to Miami with a new restaurant, but there’s nothing like coming to where it all started – right here in the posh El Poblado neighborhood of Medellin.