Steph Says: Puerto Plata!

[ChriswUfGator]

Horrible place. I ate there a few years ago with several Dominican friends. The staff was very rude and food was over priced. The Jags happened to be playing and I asked them to turn the tv  on to watch the game. The waitress said no, then walked off. No explanation or anything. I ate there again on Sunday with the same friends because I was told the staff had changed. WRONG!!! Ordered the Arroz con Pollo for $9.25.  Got about a pound of rice and about 7 half dollar size pieces of chicken in it. My friends had to ask several times for water and the waitress kept ignoring them till I got up and ask the staff in the back for some. Granted the food is pretty good, but with rude staff forget it. This place doesn't have refills either. If you order a soda for $1 you will get a glass of ice and a can of soda. I love my Spanish food but will NEVER go to this place again.

This place hasn't been there that long, and definitely wasn't there several years ago. I think you're thinking about the seedy Mex/Latin place that was there before Puerto Plata.

The location has always been a restaurant as long as I've been here. First it was some seedy Chinese place that closed down, then around 2001 it became a seedy Mex/Latin place, which closed down. Then it sat vacant for awhile, and maybe a year or so ago it became Puerto Plata.

But it has changed hands a bunch of times, and based on the timeframe you're referring to, it's not possible that the current restaurant is the one you went to. PP is maybe a year'ish old, or something like that. I remember watching the renovations take place when I'd drive by there.

I've never eaten there and don't know them, so I'm certainly not defending them with this post, but that was definitely a different restaurant when you went there.

They have been around longer than you think....

A review from 2006

http://reviews.metroguide.com/d.asp?pi=28677

You do realize that:

A: The restaurant name probably changed on that review site and the reviews carried over.

and,

B: You are quoting a post that's already over a year old. Trust me, Puerto Plata opened in 2008 or 2009, I live 5 minutes down the street from it. Go ask them if you don't believe me. Before that it was a Mexican place, and before that a Chinese place. I drive by daily, I'm quite familiar with it.

lol. I think I know. I went there with my DOMINICAN friends. This is a Dominican restaurant. That's why we went. I go to church a few blocks from this place and used to live around the corner a few years ago. When my friends moved here from D. R. in 2005, they were so excited to find a place with Dominican Cuisine. It was probably the summer of 2007 when I ate there. I know in my previous post I said I would never eat there again but I've been a couple times since. Food was very good and the service wasn't as bad.lol.

Well then your memory is failing you. They opened in 2008/2009, as I've said;

http://www.sunbiz.org/FIC/2008/1020/30065663.tif

In 2005 this was another restaurant with a similar theme, but was not Puerto Plata.

And please don't lecture me on it being a Dominican restaurant, I'm not the one between the two of us who was evidently unaware of the changeover. I have many Dominican friends and my roomate in high school was the owner of Listin Diario and Baninter, though it's somewhat embarrassing to make the latter connection these days. But I'm well aware of what the DR is, and certainly don't need a geography lesson.

If you people don't believe me, and apparently don't believe the FL Secretary of State either, why not just ask them?

[Julian]

Puerto Plata as a restaurant has been around for a while, they moved to that current location on Blanding not too long ago (2 or 3 years), prior to that they were in a shopping center on Confederate Point Road. I can remember going to the old location as far back as 2001.

[ChriswUfGator]

Puerto Plata as a restaurant has been around for a while, they moved to that current location on Blanding not too long ago (2 or 3 years), prior to that they were in a shopping center on Confederate Point Road. I can remember going to the old location as far back as 2001.

Ah, cool, well that explains the confusion between Steph and I in this thread then. I had been referring to the restaurant in Ortega, she must have gone to another location before it opened? Although I thought I was pretty clear in that I was referring about this restaurant off Blanding/Park, which had been a mexican place, and a chinese place earlier than that, but I guess something must have gotten lost in translation.

[ricker]

still delicious!
lastnight. again.  maybe my food is always perfect because I am well received as a good tipping regular. hmm
Yes south of where Park Street becomes Blanding out of Avondale.
immediately south of San Juan Avenue. between Palmer and Appleton. across from the 24/7 billiards!
previously Hunan. yes was shady and stinky.
nice newer bathrooms now. not smelly.
Was not aware of their previous existance at Confederate Point. coool
learn something new everyday. some of it useless but hey thanks none-the-less!