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Your Guide to Puerto Rico's Best Restaurants

When you come to this island, bring your appetite. Puerto Ricans love to eat, and they love good food. From classic, down-home cooking to innovative global fusion, you'll find something for every palate here.
Review of Pikayo Restaurant in San Juan
A review of Pikayo restaurant, which combines some of the most inventive interpretations of Puerto Rican cooking you'll ever eat with a sexy, sleek setting at the Conrad Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan.
A Review of Budatai Restaurant in San Juan
A review of Budatai Restaurant in San Juan, the flagship eatery of star chef Roberto Treviño. Budatai combines Asian and Puerto Rican flavors in a wonderful fusion of Asian and Caribbean flavors.
Review of Toro Salao Restaurant in San Juan
Review of Toro Salao, a Spanish restaurant with Caribbean touches around the corner from swank Fortaleza Street in Old San Juan. For Old World or New World tapas, richly flavored entrees and one or two typically Spanish, and seriously decadent desserts, this is the place to be.
Review of Varita Restaurant in San Juan
A review of Varita Restaurant, a wood-burning meatlover's paradise and the brainchild of Chef Wilo Benet, one of the most inventive masters of traditional and fusion Puerto Rican cuisine.
Cheap Eats: Great Bargain Restaurants in San Juan
One of the best reasons to visit San Juan is its world-class dining, which features everything from traditional Puerto Rican cuisine to creative fusion recipes from around the world. Dining in Puerto Rico's capital can be an expensive proposition if you're willing to splurge, or it can be deliciously affordable, if you know where to go. Here are my favorite bargain restaurants in San Juan.
Intriguing International Restaurants in San Juan
One of the best reasons to visit Puerto Rico is the food. The restaurants in San Juan, in particular, offer something for everyone, from junk-food lovers to the most refined gourmands. However, for those who want a break from 'Rican cooking, these restaurants bring you exotic flavors from around the world.
The Five Most Romantic Restaurants in San Juan
Where should you take your loved one for that special evening out? Where do you want to dine to cap off a romantic island escape? Even more important, where should you book a table on the night you plan to pop the question? These five restaurants offer the ambience, intimacy, cuisine and service that you're looking for when nothing less than the best will do.
Review of Koco Restaurant in San Juan
A review of Koco Restaurant, the latest addition to the El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde. This modern Caribbean restaurant blends inventive cuisine, chic style, and a cool ambience to produce one of San Juan's hippest restaurants.
The Fratelli Combo: San Juan Nightlife in a Trattoria
A description of Fratelli, an Italian trattoria in Old San Juan which converts at night into a hopping lounge and bar.
The Dragonfly Combo: A San Juan Restaurant and Lounge
A review of one of Puerto Rico's hottest spots for a great meal and a funky late-night hangout. Dragonfly is not just a San Juan restaurant and lounge; it's a hip, happening infusion of Asian and Puerto Rican style and taste.
Aguaviva Restaurant
Aguaviva leads the vanguard of creative fusion cooking in San Juan. From its funky aquarium-cool decor to its delicious seafood creations, it's one of the freshest places in town.
The Parrot Club: A Tropical Tradition Among San Juan Restaurants
The Parrot Club is a mainstay of the Puerto Rico dining circuit. Located on trendy Fortaleza Street, it has been delighting locals and tourists alike with excellent Puerto Rican classics in a relaxed, fun, and pleasant environment.
Pikayo Restaurant
For cuisine as inspired and artistic as its surroundings in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, you can't beat Pikayo. Chef Wilo Benet's prize Puerto Rican culinary star makes for an experience for all the senses.
El Buren Restaurant
An eclectic menu that ranges from gourmet pizzas to fine continental fare (try the shrimps served in a Cointreau sauce), El Buren combines casual dining with a lounge atmosphere and a lively bar scene.
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