La Eskinita — Restaurant in Ancón

Don’t bother.! This place came highly recommended by folks we met that had been there the night before. Watching the cook roll out the dough, it ran through my mind that it didn’t seem that sanitary. The work station/oven is beside the sidewalk.... people strolling by. Then 2 fellas (maybe the owners .??) hung around him while he’s making the pizza. I guess I’m paranoid about all those fellas hanging around while he prepares the pizza. I ordered the vegetarian. It took FOREVER !, ... and we were the ONLY patrons there !! Finally it arrives to the table and the crust looks great .... but it is so overloaded with veggies, they didn’t cook ! Stone cold ! Only the crust was worth eating. Waiter never returned to check, and the 2 other fellas (again....maybe the owners??) were more concerned with ensuring the music videos on the TV were playing . Don’t waste your time ..... there are plenty of other eateries all...

The view is nice and their pizzas are delicious, large and reasonably priced, albeit they take a long time to make. The guy who initially seated us and took our orders, who I think may have been the owner was absolutely wonderful. However, there was one waiter who randomly came up to us, and was really creepy and was insisted on knowing the exact name of the hotel we're staying at. When he failed to get it out of me, he walked away seemingly displeased, then proceeded to stand and stare at us from the other end of the restaurant. Is this restaurant only for guests of the adjacent hotel? If not, what business is it of his which hotel we're staying at? If it weren’t for him, the place would be...

Generous. We ordered a shellfish -meat -shrimp combination. In retrospect pizza would have been smarter. A lot of the shellfish didn’t open. This would have been obvious to the staff. I think. Told the waiter ; not sure he cared. Actually sure he didn’t.

The view lovely. The beer nicely chilled. Shame looked promising. We like to be...