Las Terrenas Restaurants

Local foods include (in addition to beans and rice) yami, yucca, platinos. The main dish will not only be chicken, pork or fish, but also goat and various kinds of seafood including lobster, shrimp, crab, conch (lambi) and octopus.

For a snack you can have mangoes, pineapple, bananas, guava, chinola, and "coco frio"- fresh, chilled, still-in-the-shell coconut milk.

According to the Samana website, there are more restaurants in Las Terrenas, then any other parts of Samana peninsula for the simple reason, more independent tourist visit and stay in Las Terrenas, then any other parts of the Peninsula.

According to the second edition of The Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic by Harry S. Pariser. (This is not the most current information), some of them are: Posada Chez Paco is a good seafood and French cuisine restaurant . French-owned La Salsa is a thatched roof beach restaurant. main road food and dining: High priced La Gateria offers deli type food and take out items. Cafeteria des Artes is an attractive French-run place offering local food and atmosphere. "El Capitan" (tel. 552-7593) is a bar and restaurant near Sánchez. Portillo road dining: Excellent places to eat breakfast are at Los Pi˜os and at (lower budget) Do˜a Nina's. El 28 is a small Spanish restaurant on the beach near the beginning of the El Portillo road; it has fish and paella. Comedor La Escala is on the road towards Portillo. "La Canne á Sucre" serves pasta, salad, and crepes at inexpensive prices (starting at US$1.75 for crepes). Casablanca is an attractive bar which has a restaurant in season. enroute to and near the beach: La Chicha serves inexpensive creole food. Rincon de Fleur is on the water. Near La Louisiane, La Orquidea serves moderately-priced French food. serves Basque food. "La Tita" is another Italian restaurant. Specializing in Basque and French food, Restaurante Jikako is off the road to the beach. Near the beach, Dinny's features a reasonably priced restaurant. Zuni's has good seafood. The French-owned Tropic Banana features gourmet cuisine. "Finchen" Restaurant serves Dominican and German food; itÍs also a very popular watering hole. Down the road, you can also dine at Kanesh and the attractive Las Cayenas Hotel. PalococoÍs Los Canarios is the classiest place on the main road.

We didn't eat at any of them, although I did take a picture of the "Rockin' Pirati" sign (photo 2)

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