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Dominican Restaurants: Where to Eat Dominican Food

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Looking for Dominican Restaurants in your area to find Dominican foods and flavors? With the help of our readers, we've compiled a list of restaurants that specialize in traditional Dominican dishes in the US, Canada, Europe, as well as in the Dominican Republic itself.

By - Reviewed: . Original: 14 Oct 2022

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Dominican restaurant Típico Bonao.

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What to order

Many of these are the more formal, fancier restaurants appealing to international visitors and Dominicans alike. They will all serve you all the standard Dominican foods: the plato del dia of white rice, beans, and meat (beef, pork, chicken), aka La bandera dominicana or the Dominican Flag, and favorites like Tostones (fried green plantains) and fritos maduros (fried sweet plantains).

Sancocho stew will also be on the menu, and if they serve a traditional Dominican breakfast, so will Mangu with salami, fried cheese, and eggs, aka Los tres golpes. Look out also for pastelitos (filled with ground beef, chicken, or cheese) or Kipes (or quipes) as an appetizer, Chicharron de pollo, and Longaniza (Dominican sausage).

Many of them also offer takeout and delivery.

Dominican restaurants in the DR

Here is a list of some of the best restaurants in the Dominican Republic, serving traditional home-cooked food, sometimes with an innovative touch, and authentic enough to please the taste buds of any Dominican food connoisseur.

Don't miss

Around the country, in every neighborhood, small town, village, and beach, we find the best places to eat the most authentic Dominican home cooking, in places that you're less likely to find online, but they are highly recommended.

Naturally, the best seafood restaurants are in coastal areas like Boca Chica (Santo Domingo), Maimon and La Ensenada (Puerto Plata), Monte Cristi, Playa Rincón (Samaná), Nagua (Maria Trinidad Sanchez), and Boca de Yuma (La Altagracia) for home cooked fish (try the whole red snapper in coconut sauce in Samaná, for example), shrimp and lobster dishes.

You'll find chivo (goat) in many parts of the country, along the roadsides and in the pueblos, but the most famous places are in Monte Cristi and El Cacique, Santiago Rodríguez

Mofongo in Mi Terraza in Moca (Espaillat) and many other parts of the country

Crema de cepa de apio in Constanza (La Vega)

Arepa dulce y salada in Jarabacoa

Pasteles en hoja from Amable in San Pedro de Macorís and Chichita in San Cristóbal

Dominican Sandwich and batidas at Barra Payán in Santo Domingo

Rotisserie chicken with Wasakaka sauce at El Provocón chain.

These are just some of the best-known places. Share your recommendations with us, so we can keep this list up-to-date and as complete as possible.

Santo Domingo

Punta Cana

La Casita de Yeya, Punta Cana.
La Casita de Yeya, Punta Cana.

Dominican restaurants around the world

Just because you're outside the Dominican Republic, it doesn't mean you have to miss out on delicious Dominican cuisine. We've compiled a list of some of the places we've heard about, and again, we would appreciate your input to ensure it is as up-to-date and complete as possible.

Canada

United States

Arizona

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Washington DC

Wisconsin

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Dominican restaurant food.

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

London

Italy

Milan

Spain 

Madrid

Barcelona

Netherlands

Amsterdam

    Rotterdam

    Switzerland

    Zurich

    Please let us know of any other Dominican restaurants or any changes needed to the list, so we can keep it up to date. This is an initial list and we will be adding and updating it as we receive more information from our readers.

    Muy buen provecho!

    Tia Ilana
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