La Taberna de Pepe — Restaurant in Santiago de los Caballeros

So good It’ll make you wanna slap yo mama!

I go to a bunch of restaurants in Santiago and this one is top 3 Best in the city. Literally attention to detail on everything from table, service, food presentation. I’ll walk you through my night…

I went with a friend of mine we didn’t make reservations and they were able to still get us a table (make reservation I reccomend). Really appreciate that.

I asked the waiter the margaritas they had and to my delight they had nice exotic ones and regular. It was made to perfection (not something you see often here)

The appetizer I got was a caprice steak that was just heaven! I didn’t even know you could make something that good!

I asked the waiter what they had for dinner…grazed pork sirloin marinated for like 14 hours or so… It was delicious! Like I need to go again delicious! They had other really enticing foods on the menu too so honestly it was hard to choose!

The waiters also were very knowledgeable and were really great! Dessert was phenomenal too! Look, I dont event write reviews like that, but I had to for this! I highly reccomend.

P.S. Please Don’t slap yo mama…but this is a place you can take her there and the experience would...

Came here last night with a group of friends. There were 9 of us. We called in advance to make the reservation. As soon as we get there, table were ready for us. There’s a wine cellar in the back, immediately, my husband who is a sommelier walked into the cellar and begin his wine inspection. Because some of our friends love Cabernet Sauvignon from California, we decided to opened the bottle, but it was too sharp on the palate, it wasn’t a good choose and the price for that particular bottle was expensive. My husband suggested we should opened a Portugal bottle he had lay eye on before and it was half the price of the Cabernet. We opened it and had it side by side, the Portugal red was a win win! Throughout dinner, we had 2 more additional bottle of the Portuguese wine. We ordered a bunch of appetizers from dumplings to ceviche to eggplants to pulpo. Everything was delicious. For main course, we each order one. I had the pork rib. It was flavorful and tender. Highly recommended. Overall, we had a great experience. I must said know your wine. It could be...

I was there a couple months back and it was nothing short of excellence! First of all they were kind enough to let me dine there with shorts and flip flops even though they have a dress code. It was a really hot day and I wasn't really in the mood to go all the way home to change (habia hambre). I don't think there was a single part of the meal I did not enjoy. The little bread...excellent! The steak...scrumptious! The tostones...to die for! The beer...vestida de novia, as it should be! Let's not forget whatever they put in that little Aladdin genie lamp...legendary! If the flights weren't so expensive I'd fly down there just to experience this meal again.

PS: Please patrons...frequent this place often! Keep it in business so that next time I return to the motherland I may enjoy this majestic...