Las Raices- Puerto Rico

Getting to the roots, well at least that's what this cozy restaurant in old san Juan has to offers. With vice bright colors, eclectic ambience and gracious hostesses dressed all in white, you won't find vegetables or salads here.



The colorful interior:








Appetizers included just about everything fried: fried plantains, veggie fritters, fried calamari, and other goodies.

The piniononitos, fried plantain stuffed with meat were semi sweetened bites:


The inner stuffed plantains:


The Tornado dish, skirt steak wrapped around plantains with large shrimp in an onion and mushroom sauce.. Was delicious:


Hungry paws await in the backdrop, steak tornado overflowing indeed... Fabulous..

With tasty bites, the only thing missing was a little cholula! Ironically, hot sauce is not big, and Tabasco is often brought out when requested.. Nonetheless, when walking in old san Juan and the Raices sign presents itself, a good reason to stop by. The crowds are plenty, with the place packed for lunch and dinner, you are either fighting the locals or the cruise ship passerbys!


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