Roberto's — Restaurant in Jalisco

We ended up at this place by chance before a show at the Stages theater a few doors down.

ATMOSPHERE: Simple and clean bistro-like interior in white, with nice hanging art work. Servers standby, waiting to tend to you. Plus, they weren't too busy. A single mariachi singer walked around for tips.

MENU: Apps, salads, soups, seafood, steak, pastas, Mexican fare.

FOOD: Seafood Casserole This is a medley of 2 mussels, a couple of shrimp, plentiful calamari rings, and a single skinny leg & claw of a tiny rock crab along with its midsection, done in a garlic butter sauce. Flavor was good, and everything was cooked nicely, but the crab claw was so small, the meat that was pulled out was a tease. The midsection, where all the legs attach to the body, had no meat inside! Don't bother putting it in if you're gonna use such a crappy piece of the crab!? My crab cracker came a few minutes late; better than never.

Filet Mignon My spouse's dish. The server said that the dish was customizable, so he added on 2 giant prawns that were wrapped in bacon then pan fried. I had a bite, which was good, but what isn't that's done with bacon?! The thick cut meat was pretty rare, which he sort of enjoyed, but said wasn't "prepared well."

SERVICE: Our male server was friendly and professional.

OVERALL: Nice menu, good service, avoid the...

Roberto's food is good. The only downside is that the waiters will rip you off. They said there was a deal that crepes in the menu would be 3 for $40 pesos and everyone I came with thought it was a good deal. The meals came and they were very good crepes. But when our bill came they tried to charge us $385 pesos for 4 crepes and as anyone can imegine that was a huge surprise. We talked to the waiter and he said it was the correct price. After we talked to the person in charge a whole 30 minutes later our waiter seemed very menacing towards us and for a tourist area that is very inappropriate of him to do. That is the only time I felt any danger in Puerto Vallarta. For anyone looking for good crepes and a decent price I would say to just walk to one of the small stands around the malecon. Please be careful of this place. Its sad that such a good place be plagued with rude and...

February 2022 update: We stopped here for lunch today. Two for one margaritas again, I had three fish tacos. Very good. My wife had the Caesar salad. This evening we stopped by again for wine and tequila. Had ice cream for a little dessert. Great selection and quality of ice cream/gelato. Very pleasant staff. A great stop on the Malecón.

2020:To be honest, we haven’t had a meal here. But what a great place to sit, have 2 for 1 margaritas and watch the people stroll the Malecón! During a 2 week holiday on the 5th of December area of Puerto Vallarta, we often made this our late afternoon stop on our return round trip walk of the Malecón back to our apartment. Antonio would seat us and our waiters were very attentive. This is not a place to...