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Susan
Guest
Just got back from DR with some restaurant advice:
1) La Meson Caoba Restaurant- 109 El Conde, Colonial District, Santo Domingo. New restaurant with European/Spanish bent; small, intimate, and extremely wonderful food! Run by 2 Spaniards named Pedro. Three of us ate dinner with wine for about $10 US per person. Not alot of fried plantains here, but well worth it. Tell em the Sloans from Portland sent you.
2) Restaurant Starling in Hotel Sanchez in Sanchez (on the Samana Peninsula on the way to Samana). Alejandra makes the best comida criolla I tasted anywhere, and it's safe for gringos. Extremely cheap prices cuz it's a hangout for locals and the decor is scary to tourists. Nevertheless, I loved it!
3) El Conuco, in Santo Domingo, is touted in alot of tourist mags as the place to go for authentic comida criolla and showing of Dominican culture. Don't you believe it. The restaurant has a big buffet of substandard Dominican food extremely overpriced. We went early in the evening but still had to wait nearly 2 hours for our dinners when we didn't take the buffet. It's also the one place we ate where we all had stomach problems after. Avoid this place. You can do better.
Susan
1) La Meson Caoba Restaurant- 109 El Conde, Colonial District, Santo Domingo. New restaurant with European/Spanish bent; small, intimate, and extremely wonderful food! Run by 2 Spaniards named Pedro. Three of us ate dinner with wine for about $10 US per person. Not alot of fried plantains here, but well worth it. Tell em the Sloans from Portland sent you.
2) Restaurant Starling in Hotel Sanchez in Sanchez (on the Samana Peninsula on the way to Samana). Alejandra makes the best comida criolla I tasted anywhere, and it's safe for gringos. Extremely cheap prices cuz it's a hangout for locals and the decor is scary to tourists. Nevertheless, I loved it!
3) El Conuco, in Santo Domingo, is touted in alot of tourist mags as the place to go for authentic comida criolla and showing of Dominican culture. Don't you believe it. The restaurant has a big buffet of substandard Dominican food extremely overpriced. We went early in the evening but still had to wait nearly 2 hours for our dinners when we didn't take the buffet. It's also the one place we ate where we all had stomach problems after. Avoid this place. You can do better.
Susan