Arte Sano cafe new location at Playa Alicia

[Abuela]

Have you been missing Arte Sano cafe in Plaza Colonial? It's relocated, same great pastries & coffee but also a full menu. They are now at Playa Alicia the former Steven restaurant. What a fabulous location for them, we wish them well, such a hard working and talented couple.

 

[Seamonkey]

Have you been missing Arte Sano cafe in Plaza Colonial? It's relocated, same great pastries & coffee but also a full menu. They are now at Playa Alicia the former Steven restaurant. What a fabulous location for them, we wish them well, such a hard working and talented couple.

Do they offer a full breakfast menu?

 

[Abuela]

Yes there was a breakfast menu

 

[tiguerita]

Where is Playa Alicia?

 

[ctrob]

Where is Playa Alicia?

Sosua, Calle Rosen. Go past Rockys, go straight thru the intersection at Bon Ice Cream, keep going till you hit water.
It's the only restaurant down there. Very nice people, I think they are going to do well there.

Breakfast 8 to 12.

 

[Seamonkey]

Sosua, Calle Rosen. Go past Rockys, go straight thru the intersection at Bon Ice Cream, keep going till you hit water.
It's the only restaurant down there. Very nice people, I think they are going to do well there.

Breakfast 8 to 12.

At USD$3000 per month rent, he better sell a lot of food.

 

[Timotero]

At USD$3000 per month rent, he better sell a lot of food.

Wow! Let’s say he makes 50 pesos profit on each cup of cafe, he would have to sell 3,180 cups a month just to cover the rent.

 

[Seamonkey]

Wow! Let’s say he makes 50 pesos profit on each cup of cafe, he would have to sell 3,180 cups a month just to cover the rent.

Exactly. Nobody is Sosua can survive with a high rent.

 

[USA DOC]

went there 2 evenings this week for dinner... great fish..red wine a huge glass.. pastry is great.....

 

[Meemselle]

YES! It is fabu. Same view as Waterfront, better food, way better prices. Good luck to them!

 

[etolw]

Good to know. Will visit for a breakfast today then, Cabarete is atm crowded with slow service sometimes. Playa Alicia has a nice view, good spot agree.

 

[etolw]

Sosua, Calle Rosen. Go past Rockys, go straight thru the intersection at Bon Ice Cream, keep going till you hit water.
It's the only restaurant down there. Very nice people, I think they are going to do well there.

Breakfast 8 to 12.

You owe me one! Did not pay much attention since you said there were only one restaurant there. Well, my menu had Waterfront printed on it. But the Waterfront special breakfast and the view were fantastic, so no worries.

I will find Arte Sano the next time, on the left when on the parking lot, looking out to the ocean?

 

[badpiece33]

Had breakfast there a week ago, good food and great views. little expensive for breakfast but I will be back , just not on a daily basis, but will definitely go back to spoil myself once in awhile

 

[chrisgy]

At USD$3000 per month rent, he better sell a lot of food.

3,000 a month? Even with the views that's not sustainable unless owner has deep pockets, is thinking long term and not looking to turn a profit in the short term

 

[Meemselle]

Yes, the on dit is that their rent is very high.

However, they have the same view as Waterfront. The food is way cheaper; breakfast is wondair. It's the old Arte Sano (sp?) crowd that used to be in the little bowtie park in front of Banco Popular. Lots of Italians, who know from breakfast. Great coffee, fabu pastries, much friendlier service than Waterfront. I've not visited for lunch, but I know that Giovanni, who used to cook at Margot, is in the kitchen for dinner. He was the one who gave Margot a bit of an international/sometimes Indian twist. They are still working out some cocktail hour/dinner svc issues.

I do freely admit that I have a close friendship with his wife, Isabella, who has been helping at the bar. They are a really wonderful couple, hard-working, honest, friendly, and beautiful to look at. The food is much less expensive than Waterfront. Fewer mosquitoes. Giovanni, if you remember his work at Margot, is a very talented cook.

Not to take anything away from Waterfront, where I also have pals, but Waterfront, over the years, has been wildly inconsistent and very expensive.

I'm really rooting for Steven's or ArteSano, or whatever it's called, to make it. If you get there early enough in the morning, you pretty much always get a rainbow, too!

 

[etolw]

I'm really rooting for Steven's or ArteSano, or whatever it's called, to make it. If you get there early enough in the morning, you pretty much always get a rainbow, too!

I was maybe late, no rainbow or breakfast for us.

At 10:45 I was seated and asked for the breakfast menu. Decided for eggs, the Campusino dish, I am usually not keen for the sweeter pastries Mediterranean style.
When the waiter comes back 15 minutes later, he said they were out of ingredients for breakfast.We went to another place, but the pastries looked great.

 

[etolw]

Did you make a disparaging comment as you exited or just some mean mug nasty faces on the way out. Did they try to stop you and say Noooooooooo, don't Goooooooooooooo!

No, but I heard the owner asked the waiter, «que paso» on our way out. I may have had an unintentional mug face because I was hungry:laugh:

It happened fairly quickly with no drama, **** happens. I will have the Waterfront smoked salmon and poached eggs next time at Playa Alicia though. For coffee and pastries and maybe a Campesino breakfast another time at Arte Sano, nice place absolutely.