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Restaurants we've personally experienced:
  • Ristorante lI Boccalino – we go here to enjoy an evening of music as well as food. It is one set price of 30.00 per person and includes wonderful chamber music, then afterwards we enjoy a lovely meal.
  • Machu Picchu - Great Restaurant! And we highly recommend. Not expensive and excellent food. Try the corvina ceviche!!
  • Steinbach - German pub fair -- good side dishes of potatoes either potatoe pancakes or potatoe dumplings -- try the "hunter" veal
  • Martin Fiero - Argentinean - Tom loves the fried steak with an egg on top! Very good and prices are reasonable
  • Sushi Ito - love this place…around 20.00 per person gets you a great meal
  • Carlitos - the BEST pizza. My favourite is the provolone with red pepper and Toms is tres quesos or three cheeses. Ask for a crispy edge too…yummy and about 5.00 each. The side salad there is huge – serves two!
  • Tamburelli - kind of like a pizza 73, but since they are down the street from us, handy.
  • Madame Chang - pricey Chinese food, but a great reputation
  • Lung Fung - we have dim sum here and after trying some other places…this is the one!
  • Sunley Chinese -not a dim sum we would recommend
  • Sietes Mars - the "seven seas" - good seafood - touristy - and a bit pricey for what you get
  • Pomodoro - good basic Italian - Tom enjoyed the spaghetti Bolognese - good deal at $5
  • Van Gogh - great for beer and coffee, but they do need to improve the food  - now out of business
  • Old jail at Casco Viejo - lovely ambience, food good, and bring a shawl, it’s cool
  • The Palms - nice evening out - upscale food and ambiance
  • Jimmys in San Francisco - good basic Panamanian fare
  • Too many empanada wagons to count - but if you see a little white van on via Espaná run by an incredibly friendly Columbian, stop and enjoy the best empanadas in Panama
  • la fonda across from the Fiesta restaurant in El Congrejo treat yourself to a local lunch like "ropa viejo" for under $3
  • Gauchos - Argentinean restaurant - great steaks - they bring a cart with all the cuts of meat - i had Entraňa - was it tender and cooked to perfection. All in for four with pre dinner drinks, wine and desert - $125
  • Union Club - if you are privileged enough to be invited to this great location jump at the chance. Donna and I have only had lunch but it was amazing. Tom had a ravioli made with a squash filling - yum - and  the soup and deserts were excellent.
  • Masala - Indian - and great Indian food - the Nan is excellent, the shrimp, the chicken and the appetizers - well needless to say we will be back.
  • Los Cedros - a small on-the-street restaurant that serves Lebanese and Mexican fare. We went with another couple. Donna and I had Lebanese, they had Mexican - both were excellent and with cervezas and desert the bill for four came to under $45
  • Lourdes - located in El Valle - maybe 1.5 hours from Panama City, this restaurant is an amazing place to take friends for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon lunch. Visit the market downtown and then head up to Lourdes for lunch. Make reservations as they are always busy - and no wonder -- the food is excellent - the ambiance is just like being in Tuscany and the service is great. All in all one of the best
  • Lenos Y Carbon -- located on the causeway on the farthest island next to the shopping center - great location, great vista of the city, pretty good food, (especially the presentation of the deep fried red snapper - but the service - well, it needs some help in that area - but if you can get over that its worth visiting if you like grilled fare.

 




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