Best Italian Restaurant in Cabarete/Sosúa

[windeguy]

Besides the off topic NY tips, you all forgot Tuva at Sea Winds for great Roman cuisine.

Looks lovely and not one "red sauce" dish is pictured. Has that "French" style of Italian food. Could be what you mean by Roman cuisine? (Only been to Rome once. )
(The Italians from my area must have been "southern Italians". )

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[David B]

Go to Playero. Buy pasta. Boil it. Add EVOO, sautée'd garlic, salt and pepper. Make some garlic bread.

Best Italian meal you will ever eat.

Do that most nights. I like to get out of the house occasionally for a change of scenery, even though you can always make it better and far cheaper at home.

 

[jinty05]

Certainly the most expensive classic Italian is Tuva

 

[Big]

Certainly the most expensive classic Italian is Tuva

for sure. Service is another one of my favorite things about Bliss. The boss lady (think she is the chef's wife) takes your order, offers recommendations and see's to it that the evening runs smooth. Its the premiere fine dinning joint in the area

 

[tempo]

Opinions and recommendations, please!

As someone commented here, that if you are from the US, Pizza and pasta with some ketchup thrown on top is (used to be) known as Italian....like for example, a chain restaurant called Olive Garden. Or in my neck of the woods, you could go to "Little Italy" and find that all the cooks are from central America, so much for Italian and then of course there is the "Italian steakhouse" - which I have never seen in Italy.

In Sosua, the only (and I use the word after serious due diligence), Italian restaurant ( as in what the real italians eat), used to be the restaurant run by GianLuca, a chef and an extremely convivial person, at the New Garden hotel. The restaurant space was almost always full. He later moved back to Italy and after a year or so, when he came back, he started a place called - "Beachside" in Cabarete. When I visited his restaurant 10 days back (Yes, I recently visited the DR), he was open but is considering re-locating. Like all tourist dependent business, his place will have suffered. Having said that, the location is fabulous.

I wanted to attach a few pictures but apparently I cannot.... Try out Beachside, it is not exactly cheap but it is classy as well as genuinely Italian.

https://beach-side-italian-restaurant-cabarete.business.site/

 

[windeguy]

As someone commented here, that if you are from the US, Pizza and pasta with some ketchup thrown on top is (used to be) known as Italian....like for example, a chain restaurant called Olive Garden. Or in my neck of the woods, you could go to "Little Italy" and find that all the cooks are from central America, so much for Italian and then of course there is the "Italian steakhouse" - which I have never seen in Italy.

In Sosua, the only (and I use the word after serious due diligence), Italian restaurant ( as in what the real italians eat), used to be the restaurant run by GianLuca, a chef and an extremely convivial person, at the New Garden hotel. The restaurant space was almost always full. He later moved back to Italy and after a year or so, when he came back, he started a place called - "Beachside" in Cabarete. When I visited his restaurant 10 days back (Yes, I recently visited the DR), he was open but is considering re-locating. Like all tourist dependent business, his place will have suffered. Having said that, the location is fabulous.

I wanted to attach a few pictures but apparently I cannot.... Try out Beachside, it is not exactly cheap but it is classy as well as genuinely Italian.

https://beach-side-italian-restaurant-cabarete.business.site/

Another lovely place that seems to serve nothing like the Italian food I am used to from back home.

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[cavok]

Another lovely place that seems to serve nothing like the Italian food I am used to from back home.

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I guess I'm looking for the same kind of Italian restaurant as you. I grew up in the suburbs on the south side of Philadelphia - plenty of red sauce Italian restaurants that were excellent. Must have been all southern Italians(?). None of them had those dishes I saw a Bliss and the meals were huge - not those dinky little servings that I saw on the Bliss menu that were lost in the middle of the plate and looked more like an appetizer to me, and I'm not a really big eater. I think I'd need two of most of the entrees I saw in the pics.

Someone said the lasagna at the Pizza and Spaghetti House in Cabarete is good. I'll have to try it. I went to Bologna in Sosua many years ago because it was so highly recommended and ordered lasagna. Big disappointment. Frozen Stouffers lasagna at Publix is better.

 

[Mcinbrass]

Does he use Pecorino and real pancetta?

Lol

 

[Fulano2]

Lol

Leche Carnation and pica pica probably.

 

[windeguy]

I guess I'm looking for the same kind of Italian restaurant as you. I grew up in the suburbs on the south side of Philadelphia - plenty of red sauce Italian restaurants that were excellent. Must have been all southern Italians(?). None of them had those dishes I saw a Bliss and the meals were huge - not those dinky little servings that I saw on the Bliss menu that were lost in the middle of the plate and looked more like an appetizer to me, and I'm not a really big eater. I think I'd need two of most of the entrees I saw in the pics.

Someone said the lasagna at the Pizza and Spaghetti House in Cabarete is good. I'll have to try it. I went to Bologna in Sosua many years ago because it was so highly recommended and ordered lasagna. Big disappointment. Frozen Stouffers lasagna at Publix is better.

Badabing, badaboom: I chalk those recommendations up to people that never had great lasagna.

Yes, I guess it is a northeast kind of Italian style where the Sicilians settled. Our pizza was way better, rectangular and baked in a cookie sheet than that New York City flop over and eat style as well.

The kind of tangy red sauce (gravy as they called it) of cooking just does not exist here in the DR in any restaurant.
Might as well be trying to find good Mexican or Indian food.

 

[ctrob]

Badabing, badaboom: I chalk those recommendations up to people that never had great lasagna.

Yes, I guess it is a northeast kind of Italian style where the Sicilians settled. Our pizza was way better, rectangular and baked in a cookie sheet than that New York City flop over and eat style as well

Tony: What part a the boot you from Hon?
Dr. Melfi: Doctor. Melfi.

 

[KyleMackey]

Go to Playero. Buy pasta. Boil it. Add EVOO, sautée'd garlic, salt and pepper. Make some garlic bread.

Best Italian meal you will ever eat.

I use spicy ground pork for meatballs, garlic salt and pepper for seasoning and of course garlic bread, love it.

 

[Fulano2]

It’s getting better and better 👍🏻

 

[Big]

clearly some possess the culinary intellect which would make them more comfortable at an all you can eat A.I buffet , not that there is anything wrong with that

 

[windeguy]

clearly some possess the culinary intellect which would make them more comfortable at an all you can eat A.I buffet , not that there is anything wrong with that

Traveling for years and eating on expense account in good restaurants, I will always miss the Italian food from "back home". Just can't get anything close to it here. I hate A.I's.

 

[El Rey de Mangu]

Traveling for years and eating on expense account in good restaurants, I will always miss the Italian food from "back home". Just can't get anything close to it here. I hate A.I's.

The shortcuts and other methods needed to achieve such large and diverse quantities of food would sicken most humans if they had to witness the preparation and tour the walk-ins

 

[David B]

As someone commented here, that if you are from the US, Pizza and pasta with some ketchup thrown on top is (used to be) known as Italian....like for example, a chain restaurant called Olive Garden. Or in my neck of the woods, you could go to "Little Italy" and find that all the cooks are from central America, so much for Italian and then of course there is the "Italian steakhouse" - which I have never seen in Italy.

In Sosua, the only (and I use the word after serious due diligence), Italian restaurant ( as in what the real italians eat), used to be the restaurant run by GianLuca, a chef and an extremely convivial person, at the New Garden hotel. The restaurant space was almost always full. He later moved back to Italy and after a year or so, when he came back, he started a place called - "Beachside" in Cabarete. When I visited his restaurant 10 days back (Yes, I recently visited the DR), he was open but is considering re-locating. Like all tourist dependent business, his place will have suffered. Having said that, the location is fabulous.

I wanted to attach a few pictures but apparently I cannot.... Try out Beachside, it is not exactly cheap but it is classy as well as genuinely Italian.

https://beach-side-italian-restaurant-cabarete.business.site/

Same in Southeastern PA, although the owners may still be Italians, all the cooks are Guatemalens.

 

[David B]

I guess I'm looking for the same kind of Italian restaurant as you. I grew up in the suburbs on the south side of Philadelphia - plenty of red sauce Italian restaurants that were excellent. Must have been all southern Italians(?). None of them had those dishes I saw a Bliss and the meals were huge - not those dinky little servings that I saw on the Bliss menu that were lost in the middle of the plate and looked more like an appetizer to me, and I'm not a really big eater. I think I'd need two of most of the entrees I saw in the pics.

Someone said the lasagna at the Pizza and Spaghetti House in Cabarete is good. I'll have to try it. I went to Bologna in Sosua many years ago because it was so highly recommended and ordered lasagna. Big disappointment. Frozen Stouffers lasagna at Publix is better.

Gotta love the red sauce done well. La Tarappa in Puerto Plata makes a delicious red sauce for their pizza. The crust is done well, too. Their pasta dishes, however, are mediocre.

 

[aarhus]

I find generally Italian restaurants are good in the DR as many are run by Italians and a more authentic. I was told that Pasta Alfredo is a dish invented in the US. Maybe there is an americanized type Italian food that many of you are used to. With pizza I definitely like the thin Italian crisp ones better than the deep pan stuff from the US chains. Having said that I know Italian restaurants can be very good in the US.

 

[El Rey de Mangu]

I find generally Italian restaurants are good in the DR as many are run by Italians and a more authentic. I was told that Pasta Alfredo is a dish invented in the US. Maybe there is an americanized type Italian food that many of you are used to. With pizza I definitely like the thin Italian crisp ones better than the deep pan stuff from the US chains. Having said that I know Italian restaurants can be very good in the US.

Oh John. Alfredo's is in Rome and he invented the dish when his old lady was preggos. He added lots of butter and cheese for sustenance. There was no cream. There still isn't. Real Alfredo is good pecorino, the best butter, a tiny bit of pasta water.