Traditional spain

[bettyboop]

Hi there i'm off to PR on monday after reading hundreds of reviews of the island i am a little apprehensive as to whether i'm going to enjoy the place considering it seems a little bit like home from home with all the fast food restaurants and british bars.
Can anyone recommend any traditional spanish restaurants/bars in and around PR where we can get a good meal and experience some of the traditional aspects of the island.

[BIG TONY]

Excellent Spanish food can be found at the BALCON CANARIO in the main commercial centre. Although amongst all the commercialism and hustle +bustle they serve great Spanish food with cheap prices to match. Look at the Tapas available on the counter and don't be afraid to ask and point. The house lamb is huge and has to be ordered 24 hrs in advance. Never mind the tacky universal plastic sweet menu, look in their fridge for homemade cheesecake, give it a go you'll be pleasantly suprised.
There's always the more advertised places like the Acymo and Guantanamo as shown on U.K. tv holiday programmes with prices to match. Many other restaurants exist all over the place, my advice is , if you fancy a place don't dither outside get in and give it a go!!!!!!!

[swifty]

for the best traditional places to eat i find it is best to head inland or to the small villages on the coast.
either that or head to arguinian and mogan, they can be reached via ferry or bus from pr.

[bettyboop]

thanks ever so much for your info im looking forward to it and will defo wrote down your restaurant names and check them out, also will defo take the ferry over to mogan and also heard amadores is good too, thanks once again :)

[MacTaliy]

Betty, just to let you know,at Tauro beach on a sunday afternoon, a little local beach with a small bar(run by an English couple,Rose and Michael, who also do tapas snacks) have a mix of Canarian/British people with a bit canarian impromptue music then the resident duo play. Weather permitting of course! Later you can walk round to the Guantanamo restaurant for good local food and their great special coffees. They'll phone you a taxi for your return to your apt too.

[MARCUS]

Hello!:unsure:
Puerto Rico is very commercial and it has something for most people to offer.I personaly enjoy it as we have great weather in this part of the island and good for a base.The chances are that your apartment will also have a fabulous view as well.
I would recommend that you perhaps hire a car and travel out of Puerto Rico for some great traditional restaurants and tapas bars and head for the villages such as "Pueblo Mogan" and there are many more.There are some very good restaurants in both the Europa Centre and the main shopping centre of which i agree,but the setting is not quite the same as of the mountain and country villages.(and the food will be traditional and cheaper.)Whilst i lived in Las Palmas many years ago,i found some splendid (now i am talking in my Loyd Grosman accent lol)restaurants of all types and far superior to the south of the island in the way of variety and choice.
Marcus x

[bettyboop]

cheers for your reply too will defo travel to the places suggested looking forward to it now xx

[Jim Pooley]

I can also recommend Bar Pio Pio on Tauro Beach. On Sundays they only serve tapas but during the rest of the week they do traditional canarian food and being English you can ask for whatever you want and there's no translation problems. See their site http://piopiotauro.tripod.com :)

[MacTaliy]

Thanks for that,Jim, didn't know they had that new website, I'd wondered what happened to the old one.
Takes me back a bit, seeing those photos, to the great times I had there, when I used to have time to enjoy myself more! great days spent at Tauro beach with a great crowd of people!

[Jim Pooley]

You're welcome Mac. The old site is still up there but not been updated for yonks as the guy who maintained it stopped going down to Tauro when John Eaton packed up. Mike and Rose do this site themselves now. I've been down there quite a bit lately, John plays guitar and sings to tracks, Shelley does her Brenda Lee and other stuff with her husband Penrose and guests perform too, Gary who sings and plays accoustic guitar, and Norris who sings to backing tracks. No two weeks are ever the same! You never know who's going to turn up and play.:laugh:

[oor wullie]

Hi. Can you walk to Tauro Beach from Amadores Beach or do you have to take the road???

[vecino]

I completely agree with those who say you should head out of Puerto Rico (which is great for the weather and the harbour, but that's about it, unless you do want the comforts of a British seaside resort).

Puerto de Mogan and Amadores may be pretty, but they know how to milk tourists for every euro. If you want somewhere nice to visit where you can sit and look at the sea, the paseo at Maspalomas to Meloneras has some acceptable restaurants. The Casa Serafin at Meloneras Playa has good basic seafood, but often the service can be terrible, and you should read your bill carefully.

Big Tony is right to mention Acaymo in Mogan Town, as it's (imho) a lot better than the two others run by the other brothers; it's a tourist restaurant, but it's ok.

If you want the best of local ingredients from the island, and people who have a genuine interest in food, go to somewhere like Arinaga and the Nelson, which is smart but still half the price of a decent restaurant in Bath (as opposed to a chain). And it has a fantastic view. The fish restaurants at the Isleta end of Canteras Beach are also worth going to (and there are plenty more, as Marcus says).

[Top Cat]

Hi. Can you walk to Tauro Beach from Amadores Beach or do you have to take the road???

Road only I'm afraid. Best bet is a bus to Playa Del Cura, you can walk along the beach from there, passing 2 super beach bars which have been there for many years and look well worn but are really quite ok. You can sit outside with a cool beer and just relax listening to sea crashing against the rocks.


Have a nice one from The Top Cat

[BIG TONY]

If you are young and fit it's easy to walk to playa Tauro from Amadores. Just head to your right facing the sea up past the constuction work and down around the rocks onto Tauro beach. The state of the tide often matters as sometimes a wade through the water is neccessary. If you are unsure the road is the safer but longer option.