North Coast
Wonderful beachside spot offering an unlikely menu of Puerto Rican favorites alongside Uzbek dumplings and meat wraps. However, the best thing about this…
Must-see restaurants in Puerto Rico
San Juan
A chocoholic's delight, this family-run company squeezes chocolate into – almost – every dish. Fancy a chocolate grilled cheese or churrasco with a…
San Juan
Down-home cooking has been the order of the day at this low-key cafe for decades. Locals, including chefs, come from far and wide to kick back at the…
Vieques
This small market has a good selection of gourmet goodies, artisanal bread, Angus-beef steaks and cheeses. Toward the back, there's a small sit-down cafe…
San Juan
The personal vision of James Beard Award–winning chef Peter Schintler, Marmalade was one of the first restaurants to bring real foodie recognition to Old…
San Juan
Juan José Cuevas is the Puerto Rican, Michelin-starred executive chef at the Condado Vanderbilt fine-dining flagship restaurant. He champions local…
San Juan
This relaxed restaurant celebrates the island’s produce and dishes while giving them a gourmet twist. The Puerto Rican chef's farm-to-fork dinner menu is…
San Juan
An abandoned lot has been turned into a gourmet food park where you can feast alfresco on everything from fried chicken at Hen House, to slow-roasted…
San Juan
In a one-of-a-kind oceanfront mansion with a terrace smack bang in front of Condado Beach, this cool and contemporary restaurant-bar serves up just-caught…
Vieques
This upscale restaurant is the oldest on the malecón, with a spectacular menu of updated Caribbean classics, and a focus on seafood and fresh, local…
Vieques
Every weekend, food trucks set up shop at the parking lot facing El Blok at the eastern end of town. You'll find cheap, delicious eats including criollo,…
Culebra
With an expansive deck and a prime spot on Hwy 250 overlooking the bay, Tiki's Grill serves the island's biggest, juiciest burgers in 20 different ways…
San Juan
This boho cafe's eclectic menu can take you through the day, starting with coffee, banana pancakes and the breakfast salad (sunny-side-up eggs on a bed of…
Vieques
For the finest Puerto Rican and criollo food on the island, head to this two-truck food park behind the gas station off Hwy 200. Early risers can snap up…
San Juan
Chicken rules the roost at this quirky resto, where locals come for a taste of Puerto Rican and Korean fusion. Choose drumsticks or wings, add a sauce –…
Culebra
Beautifully presented gourmet Puerto Rican fare, this Culebra favorite curates a rotating collection of crowd-pleasing dishes, including fresh seafood…
San Juan
The focus of this food truck in Lote 23 is firmly on pork, especially pernil, filling Puerto Rican pork-shoulder sandwiches with homemade mayo, lettuce…
San Juan
Freshmart is Puerto Rico's take on Whole Foods. A market dedicated to organic food and products, it also has a mezzanine-level cafeteria with a great…
San Juan
Gourmet Mexican cuisine is the theme at this cool and cozy restaurant-lounge. Start with delectable coconut margaritas or opt for fruity alternatives like…
Vieques
A stone's throw from the entrance of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, this small and friendly food truck packs a big flavor punch. Don't miss the bumper…
San Juan
This tiny, family-owned pizza place has been serving exceptional pies for more than 20 years. And its more recent inventions – such as coconut-crusted…
Vieques
From the parking lot at the eastern end of the strip, Lizzy serves up insanely good tacos: fish, vegetable, chicken, shrimp and out-of-this-world lobster…
San Juan
Tucked into Ocean Park’s residential enclave, Kasalta is the sort of authentic Puerto Rican bakery and diner that you'd cross town to visit. The coffee…
San Juan
The striking dining room – cathedral-high ceilings, exposed wood beams – leaves no doubt that you're in Old San Juan. Except that Pirilo is all about…
San Juan
This historic diner shines with Tiffany stained-glass windows, marble-top tables and a gleaming bronze coffee machine. Even the waitstaff are gussied up…
San Juan
Cocina Abierta takes pride in its eclectic seasonal menus inspired by global culinary influences. Think zucchini pakora, octopus causa or seafood green…
Puerto Rico
‘Snowbirds Welcome’ reads the sign out front, but those four-seasoned spring-breakers from Minneapolis you’ve just spied on the waterfront deck aren’t the…
Central Mountains
Who says you need to make it out to that renowned strip of lechoneras (restaurants specializing in smoky, spit-roasted suckling pig) at Guavate when this…
Aguadilla
The Reef is a relatively upmarket deli on the Hwy 110 strip, offering delicious, well-prepared dishes and a friendly Puerto Rican welcome. As for the sit…
Puerto Rico
This salt-of-the-earth grocery-store and cafe, stocked with fresh-baked goods and opulent hampers, has been in Mayagüez for more than 150 years and is…
Rincón
Cafe 413 could have coined the phrase 'surfer chic': you would think it, to look at their no-expenses-spared decor, where surfboards and images of VW…
North Coast
These folks make an art out of barbecue, but to sample it you'll have to go to more effort than usual in Isabela – this place is 1km up the hill from…
Puerto Rico
Right by the sea, Costa is a jewel at the otherwise slightly underwhelming Mayagüez waterfront. Buffeted by icy air-con, affluent residents chill in a…
North Coast
Farm-to-table is the oft-repeated mantra at the newly rebranded restaurant of the Royal Isabela resort. Dishes at this exquisite dining destination atop a…
Puerto Rico
The Ricomini bakery and deli has been on this corner for well over a century. With a lunch counter, some tables and basic groceries, this is a de facto…
Villa Dorada d’Alberto Seafood Restaurant
North Coast
With linen napkins and waiters in black ties, this classy joint serves seafood platters to a soundtrack of schmaltzy elevator music. On the weekends it’s…
Ponce & South Coast
The Capitan – right on the waterfront – is arguably Salinas’ best place to eat. Chefs plate up red snapper, a good seafood-stuffed mofongo and tangy mojo…
Ponce
Located in a hidden courtyard, this is one of Ponce's most celebrated and best-value restaurants and one that seems to stay tourist-free. There are…
Puerto Rico
Discerning fans of Mexican gastronomy may be slightly underwhelmed by the cheese-covered Puerto Rican/Tex-Mex fusions here, but this cantina, located on…
Puerto Rico
El Gato Negro is one of Playa de Joyuda's most locally popular joints and chowing down on the seafood here feels somehow like a very authentic Puerto…
