Cocina al Fondo

Restaurant · San Juan

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"After shutting down her Miramar restaurant when the pandemic hit, chef Natalia Vallejo returned with a bigger space at Cocina al Fondo, where she quickly earned a James Beard Award. A charming renovated house with an ample backyard provides a stunning setting for her updated, vegetable- and seafood-forward takes on Puerto Rican cuisine, skipping over well-known staples like mofongo to focus on deeper cuts. Vallejo serves a terrine of beet and goat cheese with toasted bread, pastelillos (or empanadas) filled with pumpkin, ají dulce (a local sweet pepper) fried tempura-style, buñuelos of mashed root vegetables, perfectly cooked catch of a day, a vegetarian pastelón, and much more on the newly expanded menu. Dessert, a cocktail list by Karla Z. Torres, and a thoughtful wine selection aren’t afterthoughts, but complementary to Vallejo’s cooking." - Paulina Salach Antonetti, Alicia Kennedy

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658 C. San Juan, San Juan, 00907, Puerto Rico Get directions

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