The culinary art practiced by restaurants in Puerto Vallarta is an orchestra for the human taste with more than two hundred and fifty fabulous restaurants to choose from. The restaurants in Puerto Vallarta offer everything from typical Puerto Vallarta seafood dishes to sophisticated international cuisine.

A few examples of the local favorites include the marlin, dogfish or shrimp skewers as well as octopus, bream ceviche, fish meatballs, and the tasty shrimp “al tequila” or shrimp in calabaza (a kind of squash) sauce. But you should not forget the drinks like coconut juice and hibiscus flower and tamarind flavored waters or even the so traditional tejuino, a carbonated drink made with corn, brown sugar, ice, salt and lemon

For sweet-toothers there are desserts like coconut and tamarind candy or the distinctive Pose, made with corn dough, sugar and prickly pears. The Cuala, a dough based sweet basically the combination of milk, sugar and coconut oil, as well as, mango cajeta (a kind of flavored caramel), coconut biscuits and candied coyules are other rich desserts from the region.

Famous for these specialties are the restaurants: Café Des Artistes, The Marlin, El Arrayan, Mestizo Restaurant Bar, Pipis and Si Señor.

On the other hand, international cuisine from countries like Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland and Spain is to be found in Puerto Vallarta since foreign chefs realizing of the potential of having a restaurant in such a tourist site, settled here and opened high-class restaurants, enriching the culinary cosmos of the region.

Among the most visited international restaurants in Puerto Vallarta we can name: Al Fresco Restaurant Bar, Kaiser Maximilian, Le Gourmet and Le Kliff, while Angelo’s Paradise Plaza, Brasil Steak House, and Frida are some of the restaurants you can find in Nuevo Vallarta. These great dining venues, together with local food spots, provide visitors with a fabulous gastronomic offer.