Picasso Stone Flame Oven — Restaurant in San Salvador

This place is located in the hotel, which is not the best location for it due to the high volumes of people checking in the hotel or other events they host.

Was not looking forward to eating here as I’ve had bad experiences with this franchise in other hotels (Mexico) (other airports). Wasn’t expecting much but because we arrived late to the hotel this was the only place opened.

It took them couple minutes to acknowledge us and in all honesty it was not busy at all. That was a red flag for me already and I was already regretting my decision.

We were finally seated and we got drinks to start, martini lychee and regular spirit drink. We ordered Tuna tar tar and pasta carbonara.

To my surprise the food was actually really good. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and ingredients. Never in my wildest dreams would have thought to order pasta in El Salvador. Actually one of the best carbonara I have tried. We were so impressed with the food we kept going back to try other dishes and as per usual staff takes notice and treat you better as you frequent the place. It was definitely one of the better foods I tried during my stay at the real intercontinental and I definitely recommend trying their octopus carpaccio, blue cheese burger, Hawaiian pizza, carbonara and the Tuna tar tar.

This place definitely has potential to get better reviews they need to work on their service and attentiveness more. But...

I have to disagree with those who qualify Picasso's pizza as good pizza. You do not have a beautiful stone pizza oven, like Picasso's, and use it to bake a rolling pin stretched pizza pie, that is just an aberration. There was no outer crust ring, the pizza was just a flat over baked dry disk, no resemblance at all to a good Neapolitan pizza. Likely they don't crank up the temperature of their oven high enough (Neapolitan pizza should be baked in 90 seconds or less) and their pizza dough may not have the correct hydration. I knew I shouldn't have ordered pizza when I walked into Picasso and saw the big rolling pin being used, but I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt ! no doubts anymore, pizza at Picasso...

The atmosphere is good. Starters were good. That’s it.

Our steaks came RAW. And we asked for them Medium.

I asked for rice instead of Fries, … I got fries and when I asked the server about this I was told the kitchen didn’t have any rice, while the patrons on the tables next to us had rice.

On sending the steak back to be recooked , magically it came with back with rice.

Though the second cook of the steak was also NOT edible.

Service was below average and at least what we ordered for main...