Pikayo
Santurce
Plan to linger for several hours at this formal, white-on-white restaurant, set inside the Puerto Rican Museum of Art; the dishes here are as rich, complex, and deserving of careful appreciation as the surrounding art exhibits. Chef Wilo Benet, widely regarded as one of Puerto Rico's culinary rock stars, draws on the country's African, Indian, and Spanish flavors to create what he calls "exotic criollo cusine." The menu is seafood-heavy; two perpetual standouts are the sesame-glazed tuna carpaccio, served with a scoop of wasabi sorbet; and the blackened salmon drizzled with caper butter.
Tip: Check out the interior walls, which are often alive with arty video installations.
Created by the editors of T+L for Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
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From Food & Wine, May 2007
“A few months ago, at star Puerto Rico chef Wilo Benet’s San Juan restaurant Pikayo, I was confronted with a menu that read like this: spicy tuna tartare with peanut sauce; crab cake with apple-ginger remoulade; beef tenderloin with sautéed spinach; foie gras with black truffle honey; wild mushroom risotto with truffle oil....” MORE>>
From Food & Wine, Dec 2003
“Wilo Benet is as close as you get to a celebrity chef in San Juan. The menu at his newest location, at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, is an eclectic mix of traditional criollo (creole) and Continental....” MORE>>
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