PUERTO VALLARTA RESTAURANTS

Whether it is Puerto Vallarta regional seafood dishes or fancy international cuisine, the over two hundred and fifty Puerto Vallarta restaurants can cater to your every wish.

Most Puerto Vallarta seafood restaurants will serve you specialties, including marlin, dogfish or shrimp skewers. If you would like to try more daring dishes, do not miss out on the octopus, the bream ceviche, the fish meatballs, the tasty shrimp “al tequila” or the shrimp in calabaza (a kind of squash) sauce. These dishes will always taste better if accompanied with the typical drinks like coconut juice, hibiscus flower and tamarind flavored waters and a carbonated drink made with corn, brown sugar, ice, salt and lemon, traditionally called “tejuino”.

If you must have dessert, Puerto Vallarta restaurants will resemble heaven with favorites like coconut and tamarind candy, mango cajeta (mango flavored caramel) or coconut biscuits. To experience the real flavor of Puerto Vallarta folklore, you should try the unique Pose (made with corn dough, sugar and prickly pears) and Cuala (dough made with a mix of milk, sugar and coconut oil).

Puerto Vallarta restaurants, where you can find undoubtedly these local specialties, include El Marlin, El Arrayan, Mestizo Restaurant Bar, Pipis and Si Señor.

For a romantic night, Cafe des Artistes will render the magical surroundings with its artistic inner designs, and the blend of its European and Moorish architecture. The cuisine served here, also displays a combination of Puerto Vallarta regional cookery with international fare, and it is run by Thierry Blouet, a recognized Puerto Rican French chef.

Thierry Blouet is not the only foreign chef that increased the world of PuertoVallarta restaurants. Places offering Italian, French, Greek, German, Spanish and Swiss fare are also sorted out in Puerto Vallarta. Most recommended ones are: Fresco Restaurant Bar, Kaiser Maximilian, Le Gourmet and Le Kliff, Angelo’s Paradise Plaza, Brasil Steak House, Frida and others.

Puerto Vallarta gastronomy takes more importance in November when the Puerto Vallarta Gourmet Festival is held, having all restaurants feature their most sophisticated and tasteful platters.

But you do not have to wait for November to enjoy your PuertoVallarta vacations, since the restaurants of Puerto Vallarta will be glad to share their rich cuisines any time of the year.