Restaurants, Cafés and Taco Stands

Cocina Mexicana-creative award winning chef, try their romantic patio

Next to the Apaches Martini Bar, this great new bistro brings a european flair to food on Olas Altas.

Archie was John Huston's personal chef and he opened this famous place several years ago. Now run by his widow, Archie's features oriental food from various cuisines (Thai, Chinese and Filipino). Nice specials along with an excellent regular menu. The sauces are subtle, a rarity in Mexico, and the Thai dishes are not overpoweringly hot. Try the Thai ice-tea! Archie's desserts are really nice, too. Warm atmosphere, excellent service and rather reasonable prices.

Voted Best New Restaurant of 2006! Located above the famous Choco Banana, this new restaurant is a delightful addition to the neighborhood.

Wonderful view and food at this excellect Tapas restaurant located north of the usual neighborhood. Well worth the short cab ride.

New concept featuring International Latin Cuisine. Has take-out, catering, and fabulous garden space available for private parties and special events. Closed Sunday.

OUR SPECIALTY:JUST SHRIMP...Features the largest, highest quality, and best flavored shrimp brought from both the Mexican Gulf and the Pacific Ocean.

FOODIES WANTED!! Latin flavors with an Asian Soul.

Bruce serves the real thing if you enjoy great meats and seafood. Fresh lobster, USDA Meats. This place satisfies your search for a serious steak and chop house.

Open Air cafe with good food and reasonable prices in Olas Altas area. Small bar busy during late evening happy hour at 11pm.

This uniquely cozy restaurant serves an array of eclectic dishes, ranging from the most wonderful pizzas to Lonches Tapatíos (a special bread bathed in a spicy tomato sauce,) goat cheese stuffed artichokes and anchovy mushrooms to Mediterranean salads - just to name a few of the specialties.

Very good Mexican food at this very popular spot near Olas Altas. Every time we walk by there is a line of people waiting to get in. Affordable prices and very good service. Worth the wait. Their Margarita grande is famous!

A very famous and popular restaurant in Vallarta, Cafe des Artistes combines Mexican and French cuisines in an elegant and romantic setting. Very expensive and somewhat formal.

Crepes and sandwiches in this popular sidewalk café on Olas Altas Street. Breakfast specials.

Real Mexican Food

The distinct flavor of home-style gourmet...Flavors and aromas of the Mexican Pacific!

With a fabulous view atop the Hotel Quatros Vientos, this longstanding restaurant offers international cuisine with Mexican and seafood specialities. During the heyday of Hollywood's infatuation with Vallarta, this charming small hotel and restaurant became a meeting place for such well known personages as Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Anthony Quinn and Robert Shaw. Los Cuatro Vientos has continued to attract people from all walks of life & different parts of the world..... people with a taste for adventure & the unique. Open for dinner. Women owned and operated.

Located far out of town, on the road south past just about everything, is Chico's Paradise. A scenic open air restaurant in the mountain valley of the Rio Tomatlan, the views of the boulder strewn river and waterfalls from this restaurant are wonderful. Mexican food and very good service.

Right on the beach just off Olas Altas, this excellent restaurant is a favorite of some of the gay winter birds that visit every year for months at a time. European and Mexican dishes, Excellent service.

Traditional cuisine from the south of France.

Where the fun begins! The place to meet before the clubs...open till midnight. Breakfast and Lunch, internet access, FULL Bar, Beer, and Expressos!

Cantonese cuisine in this rather simple but good restaurant. One of our favorites is the Mongolian Beef. Good service. Home delivery available. Affordable.

In just one year, this charming country-style Mexican restaurant has become a Vallarta favorite with those who know good food and value when they see it.

Located right on Los Muertos Beach, El Dorado used to be the location of the gay beach scene before it moved down to the blue chairs several years back. Still popular for breakfast, lunch and dinner, this restaurant features seafood and Mexican specialties.

NUEVO LATINO CUISINE...serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Daily Specials and Beach Service!

Spanish food, particularily tapas, served in a location on the hill above the center of town. A special treat.

FEELING MEXICAN TONITE? featuring Don Julio's Award Winning Fajitas!

One of our favorites, this German Biergarten has excellent food in a wonderful garden courtyard setting. Two kinds of bratwurst, schnitzel, spätzel, sauerbraten and much more - all authentically prepared. Their breads are wonderful. Friendly Mike Pohl, the owner, hasn't let the success of this restaurant translate into outrageous prices. You'll find a little bit of Germany here in the tropics. Affordable German food, beers and wines.

The home of seafood frescado! Serious cocktails and rooftop terrace.

Breakfast and lunch featuring South Dakota Style Biscuits-n-gravy.

Classy N.Y. style lounge with beautifully presented food. Popular with gay clientele. Occasional shows.

Before dinner try the calamari fritti with the homemade foccacia and your preferred wine. 24 different pizzas baked like the deepest south Italian style in a handicrafted and classic wood-fired oven. Authentic Italian dishes too including white-wine veal scallopine, Italian chicken and seafood dishes, portofino tenderloin, funghi chicken.
If it sounds good - it tastes even better!

18 years making pizza in Puerto Vallarta

On the famous Los Muertos beach, just off Olas Altas, is the new restaurant of Mike Pohl who owns Hacienda Alemana.

Specialising in seafood, you can dine under the large palapa or on the beach – especially romantic at night with the torches gently illuminating the beach. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Located almost under the Insurgentes bridge, this elegant restaurant is a favorite of locals and tourists alike. Jazz music and an excellent menu of International and Mexican cuisine. Excellent service in a superb setting. Lovely atmosphere. Expensive.

Restaurante Argentine-exquisite steaks grilled over an open fire.

Since 1996, Mama Dolores' restaurant has been serving up quality home-style American and Mexican food at very affordable prices, to enthusiastic locals and tourists alike, from unpretentious digs at the corner of Olas Altas and Pulpito.

Surf-n-Turf dinners with ALL YOU CAN EAT Shrimp!!

Joe Jacks Fish Shack has this new take-out next to the new Sr.Frogs at the Malecon featuring their famous fish & chips, shrimp, and great hamburgers! They're open late and have Delivery Service!!

Similar food fare to the old Chili's when it was run by Hank and Conrad. Hamburgers, salads and chicken.

A eclectic place a bit off the beaten path, this woman owned restaurant has excellent gourmet Mexican fare served with style. A must if you're interested in excellent, authentic Mexican food that goes way beyond the taco, enchilada and burrito stuff most people think of when you say Mexican cuisine. Highly recommended!

Oversized menu offers an array of regional Mexican specialties starting with appetizers that include guacamole prepared tableside.

True to it's name, Uncommon Grounds travels into delightfully new cafe territory. Come soothe your soul in this wonderfully unusual place that delights the senses and sets your soul at ease.