El Artesano Restaurant & Craft — Restaurant in Caguas

Interesting place with no clear theme: pizza+burgers+fish+tacos=Italian Mexican with steakhouse steaks and craft beer and wine? I had some apprehension and kept expectations low. Surprisingly, the buren pizza was delicious and well made. The dorado was okay but the fish tasted a little defrosted, as did the empanadas, so I need to dock a star for that. But the granos tacos were great too. The chicken wings and croquetas were on point!

A personal note here--its hard to find vegetarian food eating anywhere in Puerto Rico. This is a very vegetarian friendly restaurant with not only the classic veggie burger option but also a pizza, taco, lasagna, pasta, risotto option! Not to mention the appetizers, sides, and soup options. Incredible to finally feel culinarily included on this island!

There is a large craft beer and wide wine selection. Feel free to ask to go check out the beer options as there isn't a menu (yet).

Atmosphere -- not sure why someone called this place cozy in the reviews. The chairs are basic and remind me of the plastic chairs you store in the garage for big get-togethers. There are many TVs showing sports but ambience is off if they are going for a sports bar vibe. There's also a large empty wall where some art could be put in and the ceilings are tall to a point of echos. I humbly suggest for management to see the potential here. With the beer and wine selection and pretty good food, the atmosphere could be taken to...

1st experience here and it was really bad to say the least. Awfull service, food left a lot to desire, items not properly cooked and not as indicated in the menu, had to return a plate wated at least 25 minutes to get another one. The rest of the food was not bad, but surely nothing artesanal about it. Server easily with the worst I had so far and the owner being at the place does not seem to notice anything also a bit rude.

I will go for a second time in the future to give them a chance, so for now I will not post in details what hapenned and why it was so bad. So if I was asked today, I would...

I would give 2.5 stars. The service was bad. There were like 4 servers and less than half full and it took them a good 10 minutes to come to our table and take our order. I even flaged one abd he just turned around and ignored us. The fried cheese had no flavor. The strawberry sauce that came with it was good. We ordered the "El Artesano pizza", had italian sausage, chimichurri, skirt steak an argentinian sausage. It was warm to room temperature and tasteless, no flavor came through from any topping. Other places offer better...