La Bombonera
PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended
ADDRESS: Calle San Francisco 259
CITY: San Juan
COUNTRY: Puerto Rico
PHONE 1: 787/722-0658
This place offers exceptional value in its homemade pastries, well-stuffed sandwiches, and endless cups of coffee -- and it has done so since 1902. Its atmosphere evokes turn-of-the-20th-century Castille transplanted to the New World. The food is authentically Puerto Rican, homemade, and inexpensive, with regional dishes such as rice with squid, roast leg of pork, and seafood
asopao (a thick rice soup). For dessert, you might select an apple, pineapple, or prune pie, or one of many types of flan. Service is polite, if a bit rushed, and the place fills up quickly at lunchtime.
Copyright: Excerpted from
Frommer's Puerto Rico, 9th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

San Juan
, Puerto Rico