Does anyone have any opinions on Escape del Mar restaurant...malecon Puerto Plata?
I am considering changing my wedding venue to here because it is has much nicer decor....ocean front...better view etc.
Has anyone eaten here that can comment on the food, service etc..?
Any info is appreciated
Thanks!
Sangria
Escape Del Mar is just a few steps away from where I live.
As a restaurant, I don't know if I do it injustice by saying that I think that it is a tourist trap that doesn't seem to work well as such either. I did NOT
eat there, but I went in there with some people... it was dinner time (noon) and besides some carpenters doing repairs (yes, during dinner time), and some personnel, we where the only ones. We sat down and looked at the menu and decided we weren't that desperate and left. From their reaction (or lack thereof) I would gather we weren't the first ones to have done this.
Yes, the setting is not just nice and romantic... it's unique. Still, the wooden building would require a lot of maintenance, maintenance it has apparently not always been blessed with.
I can't say how good the food is, but I seem to have noticed a certain lack (loss?) of interest.
I jog the malecon when ever I can, I seldom see any or much people in there.
If it is of interest to you, yes, as Miguel recommended, I would have some Dominicans contact the management and work out a deal with them.
Even Cosita Rica, next to it, may do more business and the food there lately is mediocre at best and yet too expensive. But they sell icy cold beer!
Keep in mind, in this country, places who really have a good concept and a good price-quality ratio do function... just look at Maimon: There is ONE of the fish places that is always packed with people.... and it's the "
ugliest" of'em all... still it's the best working one and the one that probably does more business than all the others around it combined.
... J-D.