Tropic Bird Cafe — Restaurant in Parroquia Puerto Ayora

My favorite restaurant in Puerto Ayora. It has lunch special everyday at 5$. The meal comes with juice, ecuadorian soup and second dish with rice, salad/lentels and fish, shrimp, chicken, beef ect. Sometimes fish or shrimp ceviche comes in the 5$ meal. On saturday morning they have bollo, cazuela, encebollado, maremoto (dishes with fish and shrimp), also duck stew, goat etc all these dishes are tipical from the coast of mainland Ecuador.

Dinner coast 7$ and you can choose between fish, chicken, prok chops with saldad rice and beans. However the menu is large and you can choose sandwich, toast, fresh juices, beer etc. Sometimes for dinner I eat a burguer, those are cheapeast in the town 6$ and they are...

Excellent Ecuadorian restaurant with a view of the bay. They have a pretty big menu, but with rotating specials for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My favorites here are the encebollado (fish soup) or maremoto (seafood soup) for a super delicious brunch or one of their cooked specials like the Seco de Chivo (braised lamb and rice) or the Lengua Guisada (cow tongue braised in sauce)... and of course, for dinner, you can’t go wrong with the Arroz con Menestra with a choice of BBQ meat, so yummy with a dab of the hot sauce. Service here is always friendly, the food is hot and very reasonably priced at a prime location, great spot!!

There are always locals here as well! I’d come back here in...

I really really really want to give Tropic Bird a five star review but I can't. The service is sooooo slow that it took 50 minutes to get a rice plate and a fried fish plate. Only one other table was waiting on food at that time. An hour wait for food when you're the only one is ridiculous. However, that fried fish was the best I've had anywhere in the Galápagos! You can taste the delicious oils, the fish was soft inside and salty, and it was a huge portion. If they could have got it to the table faster it'd be a perfect experience. Don't try the grilled fish here, it's not nearly as good. Just skip lunch...