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Restaurants owned by expats in SD
Chalet Suisso always had good food.
The owner sold out a couple years ago and it is now renamed Vienna Caribe. I ate there last year and nothing stood out..but that might be because they had a new menu and my favorite dish was no longer being served.
Always enjoyed the music...60's-80's American and on Saturday's, I think, the old owner had live music.
It is on the Malecon heading west after the University del Caribe.
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Playacaribe2
2000 pesos by person... Without drink!!!!
But the best of the best in SD in my opinion!
Maybe not most but certainly a lot of expats or immigrants: Baladi and La Libanesa are Lebanese, La Lasa?a are Italians, Falafel is Israeli, etc.
exactly, this is how i read the intention of this post as well, simply checking whether an expat can open well functioning restaurant bringing decent profits.
Go to Pat e Palo you would not regret it and you will regret it not going. Excellent food and great ambient as well as the location and yes 2000.00RD includes local drinks.
Btw, I believe a restaurant in SD an be a decent business but only if you have serious capital to invest and to survive start up time and even more important, if you know the restaurant business from vast experience elsewhere.
A family member (not an expat) bought a reknown restaurant in SD about 1,5 year ago, doesn't (didn't) know squat about restaurant business and ended up paying lots of money in partly lost investments and later consultancy fees on experts to get him on the right track. He's done a good job though but it cost him much and he IS Dominican and this restaurant, though almost bankrupt when he bought it, had a very good name since over 20 years.
Wait, do you mean a beach bar is a surefire winner? I've never had a restaurant or bar before, but it looks really easy on TV. I was seriously thinking of using my life savings and setting something up around high season in May or June. That way, it would be profitable immediately.
We'd specialize in Presidentes (a hard-to-find, premium beverage, I've heard), served by fetching ladies of somewhat dubious morality.
Whadayathink?
