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Puerto Rico's great selection of restaurants offers a variety of award winning international cuisine. This is a marvelous way of introducing your guests to a rich and varied culture.

We have designed our dine-around programs to be comprehensive enough to provide a wide selection of restaurants and flexible enough to be customized to any budget and group size. We can assist in pre-planning your group's menus, or let individual diners choose from "a la carte" menus. We have over 30 restaurants to satisfy your requirements. Please inquire about special group menus and other pertinent information.

Formal

Augusto's

Winner of the prestigious Gold Fork Award for six consecutive years as the best restaurant in San Juan, Augusto's offers a creative menu of continental contemporary cuisine prepared with the freshest available ingredients. The restaurant is noted for its European professional service and careful attention to detail. This personal touch, along with excellent food and award-winning wine list, makes Augusto's Cuisine the first choice to eat.

Location: San Juan Metro Area
Dress code: Formal
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max
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Palm

The same great steak, seafood, and Italian dishes are found here as at the Palm's sister restaurant in New York. The caricatures of local and international celebrities that adorn the walls set the atmosphere.

Location: El San Juan Hotel - Metro Area
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Back Street of Hong Kong

Back Street Hong Kong will delight your senses with its exotic Far East ambience and succulent Chinese cuisine. Appetizers include delicious cold sesame noodles, hot and sour seafood soup, and corn soup with Alaskan king crab.

Location: El San Juan Hotel - Metro Area
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Yamato

"Konbanwa irasha imase" (Good evening and welcome) to this, the grandest of Japanese restaurants. Yamato offers an excellent selection of typical entrees from the menu or authentic teppan yaki prepared at your table. The sushi bar offers a wide selection of fresh fish, presented by San Juan's most creative sushi chefs.

Location: El San Juan Hotel - Metro Area
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

La Piccola

Tastefully decorated with classic Italian style and charm, La Piccola Fontana offers only the best of the Italian cuisine. The charming owner, Mr. Carlo Picchetto and his chef Julio Pacheco, have been working together since 1965 and have established a reputation of quality and style which was awarded by the "Golden Fork" for the best Ambassador of Italian cuisine.
On the menu you'll find a wide variety of pastas, veal, beef and seafood, all with that special Italian flavor. For dessert, the Tiramisu is absolutely a must.

Location: El San Juan Hotel - Metro Area
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Jose - Jose
This restaurant is a dream, the culmination of a long career dedicated to the administration of "the good table" for two Joses", Jose Garden and Jose Abreu. Both have worked for many years in diverse facets of the industry. For instance, Garden, who is the Maitre D' worked at Ramiro's, Compostela and La Chaumiere. Prior to that, he performed in the same capacity aboard a cruise line.

Abreu, the chef of the two, studied under a leading Spanish chef and thus consolidated the knowledge that he had acquired in different restaurants and hotels.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Ramiros
When it comes to fresh foods, exquisitely prepared and beautifully presented, Ramiro's is unsurpassed. Internationally renowned Chef Luis Ramiro, whips up a delightful array of haute cuisine dishes, and daily specials, all prepared with a personalized, creative touch.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Pikayo

The innovative Chef Wilo Benet, has made Pikayo's a landmark in gourmet San Juan dining. Contemporary touches add excitement to such Puerto Rican favorites such as monfongo with shrimp and land crab pionono, and Chef Benet whips up French, Californian and Caribbean ingredients into an intriguing "fusion" cuisine. The setting is casual, the service is sophisticated, and cigar smokers are welcomed.

Location: San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Cobia's

A unique Caribbean tapas bar and seafood grill specializing in tapas, cocktails, a seafood raw bar, and the freshest fruits of the sea, Cobia overlooks the Condado, San Juan Lagoon from its panoramic windows. Mouth watering aromas waft out the kitchen, anticipating a superb dining experience in a fun, casual ambiance.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 200 pax max

Antonio's
The extensive international menu includes duck breast with mango sauce, grilled grouper with caviar sauce and Spanish gourmet specialties in a polished setting.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 225 pax max

Chef Marisol

Heralded as offering the "Best U.S. Meal" by the Chicago Sun Times, Chef Marisol makes your dining experience an unforgettable event. Marisol Hernandez, graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, interior decorator, and winner of several gold medals in culinary competitions, oversees every aspect of the restaurants operations. Fine dining reaches new heights in the romantic patio setting.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 100 pax max

Il Perugino

This intimate restaurant set in a 200-year-old building serves Old San Juan's best Italian cuisine. Classic carpaccios; scallops with porcini mushrooms and other exotic salads; homemade pastas such as black fettuccine with crayfish and baby eels; hearty main courses including rack of lamb with red wine sauce and aromatic herbs; and desserts like a killer tiramisu make it a must for gourmets..

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: No, 40 Max

La Casona
Your will not find a more beautiful setting for dining anywhere in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean than in this gracefully restored Spanish mansion that has been the home of La Casona since 1972. Over the years. La Casona has set high standards, not only in its exquisite Spanish and international cuisine but also with its unique facilities.

It offers a choice of seven dining area with settings for intimate couples or private parties. La Casona also has an underground wine cellar, available for private meetings.

Location: San Juan Metro Area
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 300 pax max

Compostella
Contemporary Spanish food and a 10,000-bottle wine cellar are the draws here. The restaurant, with its bright interior and many plants, is honored yearly in local competitions for specialties such as mushroom pâté and port pastelillo (wild mushroom turnover), grouper fillet with scallops in salsa verde, rack of lamb, duck with orange and ginger sauce, and paella.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

La Belle Epoche

This French bistro strikes a perfect balance between classic and contemporary French Cuisine. Its elegant, cozy wine cellar, with more than 1,000 wine bottles from around the world, is ideal for food and wine pairing. The Smoker's terrace features fine cigars , whiskeys, Porto's, cognacs and armagnacs.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: Casual elegant
Private dining area: Yes, 85 pax max
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Ajili Mojili

This restaurant serves traditional Puerto Rican food prepared with a flourish and presented in an attractive plantation setting. Sample the fried cheese and yautia dumplings with the house sauce - a tomato, herb, garlic, and shaved almond concoction. The mofongo, a mashed plantain casserole with a seafood or meat stuffing, is wonderful, as are the plantain-encrusted shrimp in white-wine herb sauce.

Location: Condado, San Juan
Dress code: Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 100 pax max

Parrot Club

Located in Old San Juan is the brightly colored Parrot Club, which is exactly the kind of place you'd hope to find here. It's awash in tropical colors, brilliantly hued, with a great bar and wonderful folk art and Chef Robert Trevino's cooking mirrors the surroundings. His food bursts with color, from the appetizers, like tamarind chili-glazed baby back ribs.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 75 pax max

La Mallorquina

Founded in 1848, La Mallorquina is San Juan's oldest restaurant. Set in a colonial building complete with arches and courtyard in the heart of Old San Juan, the restaurant is decorated with antique mirrors, vases and clocks, and an old-fashioned wooden bar running the length of one wall. Sample the best in typical Puerto Rican food - garlic soup, corn sticks, asopao ( a rice dish with chicken, lobster or shrimp), beef tenderloin Puerto Rican style and home made caramel custard.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Casual
Private dining area: No, 85 pax max

Café Amadeus
A trendy crowd enjoys the nouvelle Caribbean menu here. The front dining room is attractive - whitewashed walls, dark wood, white tablecloths - but go through the outside passage to the romantic back room with printed cloths, candles, and exposed brick. The roster of appetizers includes buffalo wings and plantain mousse with shrimp. Escargots, cheese ravioli with a goat-cheese-and-walnut sauce, and Cajun-grilled mahi-mahi are a few of the delectable entrées a trendy crowd enjoy the nouvelle Caribbean menu here. The front dining room is attractive - whitewashed walls, dark wood, and white tablecloths - but go through the outside passage to the romantic back room with printed cloths, candles, and exposed brick. The roster of appetizers includes buffalo wings and plantain mousse with shrimp. Escargots, cheese ravioli with a goat-cheese-and-walnut sauce, and Cajun-grilled mahi-mahi are a few of the delectable entrées.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 100 pax max
Very Casual
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The Butterfly People
An oasis in the Old City, featuring fresh baked baguette sandwiches, filled croissants, quiches, salads and many refreshing tropical drinks to beat the heat while you choose the butterfly design that will fly home with you.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: very casual
Private dining area: Yes, 40 pax max

Hard Rock Café

Located in historic Old San Juan, and minutes away from the San Juan Pier, Hard Rock Cafe San Juan combines classic Hard Rock food (sizzling fajitas, juicy burgers, mouth-watering desserts). Customized function menus, music and museum quality memorabilia in the best, life - loving atmosphere.

Location: Old San Juan
Dress code: Very Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 225 pax max

La Parrillada Barilloche

An extensive menu includes Argentine favorites, churrasco and house specialty steak Diane flambéed tableside with Tio Pepe Sherry. Voted best Argentinean food by San Juan City Magazine.

Location: Isla Verde, San Juan
Dress code: Very Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 130 pax max

Al La Banda

At this waterside eatery you can sit in a dining room with nautical decor or on a terrace overlooking the marina. Steaks and poultry figure on the menu, but the seafood is where the kitchen excels.

Location: Fajardo
Dress code: Very Casual
Private dining area: Yes, 65 pax max


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