Frommer's Portable Puerto Rico
Chapter One
Where to Dine in San Juan
San Juan has the widest array of restaurants in the Caribbean. You
can enjoy fine continental, American, Italian, Chinese, Mexican,
and Japanese cuisines, to name a few. In recent years, many restaurants
have shown a greater appreciation for traditional Puerto Rican
cooking, and local specialties now appear on the menus of numerous
restaurants. When possible, many chefs enhance their dishes
with native ingredients.
Many of San Juan's best restaurants are in the resort hotels along
the Condado and at Isla Verde. There has been a restaurant explosion
in San Juan in the past few years, but many of the newer ones
are off the beaten tourist path, and some have not yet achieved the
quality found at many of the older, more traditional restaurants.
Local seafood is generally in plentiful supply, but no restaurant
guarantees that it will have fresh fish every night, especially during
winter, when the sea can be too turbulent for fishing. In those cases,
the chef relies on fresh or frozen fish flown in from Miami. If you
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