https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/ en Independent knowledge platform for Chilean and Argentine Patagonia. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:43:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/where-to-eat-whole-king-crab-in-punta-arenas/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/where-to-eat-whole-king-crab-in-punta-arenas/ What to ask, what to tell apart and what to expect before ordering a whole king crab in the capital of Magallanes. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-or-false-king-crab/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-or-false-king-crab/ Two different species, two different prices, and a confusion one question resolves. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/restaurants-with-real-patagonian-fire/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/restaurants-with-real-patagonian-fire/ How to tell a multi-hour ember cooking from a fast grill sold under the same name. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-to-eat-before-travelling-to-torres-del-paine/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-to-eat-before-travelling-to-torres-del-paine/ The last served dinner before several days of effort in cold and wind: how to think about it. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-to-eat-after-a-crossing/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-to-eat-after-a-crossing/ Coming off the park, the boat or the ride with accumulated hunger is not the same as having an appetite. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/seafood-available-by-season/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/seafood-available-by-season/ What depends on closed seasons, what depends on the sanitation programme, and what depends only on the weather. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/how-to-recognise-an-authentic-patagonian-food-experience/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/how-to-recognise-an-authentic-patagonian-food-experience/ Five verifiable signals, none of them decorative. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/eating-morel-in-patagonia/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/eating-morel-in-patagonia/ A mushroom of weeks, not months. Where it fits in a trip and when it simply does not. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/guanaco-on-the-table-what-to-know/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/guanaco-on-the-table-what-to-know/ How it legally reaches a plate, why it leaves the menu, and how to cook it without ruining it. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/puerto-natales-the-night-before-the-park/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/puerto-natales-the-night-before-the-park/ What to expect from the last full-service town before Torres del Paine. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/which-restaurants-keep-their-menus-current/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/which-restaurants-keep-their-menus-current/ How updating works on THE WHOLE and why an old record degrades by itself. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-is-open-today-in-punta-arenas/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-is-open-today-in-punta-arenas/ Why this is the hardest question to answer honestly, and what we do about it. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/eating-to-recover-after-physical-activity/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/eating-to-recover-after-physical-activity/ What an austral table can offer someone who has just walked, ridden or sailed for days. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-king-crab-costs-and-why/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/what-king-crab-costs-and-why/ The five things that set the price, and the only published price we could actually verify. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/centolla-crab-or-king-crab/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/centolla-crab-or-king-crab/ Three names for one animal, and a confusion that spans two languages and two hemispheres. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-in-punta-arenas-or-ushuaia/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-in-punta-arenas-or-ushuaia/ The species does not change at the border. The rule changes, the season changes, and who caught it changes. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/restaurants-in-punta-arenas/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/restaurants-in-punta-arenas/ What this city has, what depends on the season, and why we do not publish a best-of list. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/where-to-eat-in-puerto-natales/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/where-to-eat-in-puerto-natales/ A waypoint town with sharp seasonality and three hours of road from its supply line. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-purchase-collusion-case/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/king-crab-purchase-collusion-case/ Seven companies, eight executives and conduct charged between 2012 and 2021, before Chile’s Competition Tribunal. No ruling. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/why-king-crab-goes-to-china/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/why-king-crab-goes-to-china/ Seven buyers take almost everything and export it. That is where the two things felt in the city come from: that there is barely anywhere to buy it, and that it is expensive. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/how-to-buy-legal-king-crab/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/how-to-buy-legal-king-crab/ What the authority requires, what to ask for, and what you are really buying when the price does not add up. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/why-legal-king-crab-costs-more/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/why-legal-king-crab-costs-more/ A formal venue buys squeezed from above and sells squeezed from below. The gap is structural, and it is worth knowing what it is made of. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/rose-and-calafate-infusions-in-patagonia/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/rose-and-calafate-infusions-in-patagonia/ One comes from a shrub that was always here. The other from a rose someone brought, which outlived the person who planted it. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/the-magallanes-morel-that-still-has-no-name/ https://thewholeofpatagonia.com/en/guides/the-magallanes-morel-that-still-has-no-name/ In January, the head of INIA in Magallanes said there might be a species unique in the world here. Seven months on it has not been described, and the fungus is still exported nameless. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT