La Casita Blanca

Had the best experience at this Puerto Rican restaurant! The food was absolutely delicious – full of flavor and made with so much love. Our waiter Luis was amazing and went above and beyond to explain the menu, share recommendations, and make sure we understood all the different dishes! You could tell he really cared about making our visit special!

It was worth the wait! I’ve been twice now with an average ~45 minute wait time. The food is delicious with hefty portions, servers are attentive (special shout out to Sandra who has been my waitress both times), and the drinks are cold. Your meal will start with a free plantain soup and bacalao fritters, and will end with a free shot. I will definitely be back (again)!

I had been wanting to visit this James Beard Award winner for a while, and I was not disappointed! They don’t take reservations, so we had to wait in line outside for a little bit, but it wasn’t bad at all. The atmosphere and decor of the restaurant were awesome, with parts being covered but still open air and trees and vines growing inside the restaurant itself! We were given plantain soup to start with, and it, along with everything we ordered, was delicious! If you want a meal in San Juan that is nice but not overly expensive, I would definitely recommend this place! Not pictured is the fried cheese with guava sauce, which was also excellent!

When visiting San Juan, this restaurant was pretty much recommended by everyone on social media such as tik tok, ig, etc. For those reason, I wanted to try it. We have made three attempts and got in on the third try. First time was for dinner like about 1-2 hours before closing. If you planning to visit this restaurant for dinner 2 hours before closing, good luck. Line is crazy. Seeing the line it had the first two times and not be able to get in, it made the expectation higher when I finally got in on the 3rd attempt. I came 11:15 am, 15 min prior to opening and there was a line. Finally got in and wanted to see the hype. The inside of the restaurant is amazing with beautiful decor. Good music as well. Makes you really feel like you are in PR. On the house soup and one other item was good. The apps were also good, I wouldn’t say amazing. When it came to the main dish, got the stuffed shrimp with avocado and beef stew. I think the stuffed shrimp with avocado is like 4/10. It didn’t taste as flavorful as I thought it would and was underwhelming. Then the beef stew was also good but not great. The curry in beef stew was flavorful but it just the big pieces of beef were undercooked. The smaller beef pieces were fine, it’s just bigger ones felt like rubber and couldn’t eat. I want to be positive and say that maybe I just got the bad batch of the beef stew but that was my experience. Overall I want to say like mid or average eats, for the hype, the price u paying, line it got, the food definitely could be better in my experience.

The best restaurant we have tried so far in San Juan Very very good home made cuisine local food local recipes they even have their own coffee and spicy sauce. That place is very old with a lot of history decorated the old way which gives it a very unique and authentic vibe. We shared different meals and everything was delicious I will recommend this place 💯 when you’re visiting San Juan. They don’t take reservations so you have to go there and wait outside to be seated but it doesn’t take long the place is pretty big and open the whole day so you can also enjoy a late lunch or early dinner. Enjoy