El Trapiche Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Arecibo

A criollo restaurant with nice variety and speciality plates. The speciality plates is tricky, they don't appear in the menu and we had to ask based on facebook picture they had. Waitress should give this suggestion out in my opinion.

They have a pretty good appetizer selection, they have more samplers options than other similar places. We order the speciality plate which had a variety of meats, rice, mofongo, etc. Easily 5 people could eat from it. The rice mampostea was the star, mofongo I felt was a bit bland and some of the meat was a bit to salty, but enjoyable.

Is a great place to take the family thanks to this plate, atmosphere has a bit of inside sitting, but most is outside with roof. Sadly even with this roof if it rains hard (like it did when we where there) you'll...

I’m visiting from the states to see my family. My brother and I stopped by here after a busy day of sight-seeing. We both ordered chicken mofongo and I had a piña colada.

The food was a bit too salty for my brother, but I thought it was perfect. It was a bit expensive and the mofongo didn’t look like traditional mofongo but it tasted great and the chicken seemed high quality.

Yaniel was our server. He was welcoming, always had a smile on his face and truly seemed happy...

I called 33 minutes before arriving to ask if reservations were required. They answered via phone "no reservations needed, the restaurant is not busy at all". We arrived, upon arriving we waited at least 10 minutes to be greeted by the doorman who said "we only have two servers and the restaurant is full" I explained I called and he said well I didn't answered the phone (lol) he added "the tables inside are dirty but let me check". We turned...