Villa Dorado D’Alberto

Great service, outstanding food and smack in the middle of everything happening in Dorado. Major highlight of our trip. Definitely will return.

My family and I have visited here a few times over the years as we’ve visited Dorado Beach. I’ve found that some of the menu items can be completely bland. This past visit, my wife and I ordered two dishes — a shrimp in garlic sauce and a lobster in garlic sauce. What I received was six small shrimp on a small rectangular shaped plate, maybe 8 inches long, half of which was filled with frozen vegetables covered in butter. My wife’s lobster was pretty much the same. A few chunks of lobster and half a plate of frozen vegetables. However, my in laws ordered one of the three seafood specials they promote — grouper, mahi mahi or red snapper, and they all received an enormous plate of seafood that looked and tasted fantastic. On our previous trip I ordered the chuleta «can can» pork chop which was overdone and completely dried out. I think it just depends on what you order as this place can truly be a home run or a complete swing and miss.

KILLER homemade hot sauce! Nice atmosphere on the waterfront. Great food, definitely worth a repeat.

Was introduced to the owner the night before I came here. Very nice man and his restaurant is of the hook. Food taste so good.

Very good and fresh seafood. Won’t serve you swai for grouper… Excellent service, nice, familiar atmosphere. Not as pricey as other Rest in the coast. Quality, decent wines & lots of spirits, great Sangría, moderate prices. Always visit when we’re in town.

This review is really a 3.5 but I rounded up. Not too many choices for a nicer place to eat dinner at in the Dorado area but this fits the bill pretty good. We got there around 7pm on a Friday nite and it was just in time. By the time we left around 9 the place was packed.
The seafood selection is plentiful. Actually their menu is huge. I had the chillo (snapper) fish with maduros (ripe plantains) and house salad. It was real good. Everyone at the table had some type of fish and they were all pleased. It was 6 of us in total. The pina coladas with or w/​o were excellent. Service was a little slow but I expected it to be that way.
If you are not familiar with the area I suggest you get here before the sun goes down. There is plenty of parking and bring a jacket because they have the ac kicking @ 65 in the main dining room. They also have an outside area where the DJ was starting to play some tunes when we left and I am sure it turns into an all nite party.

This restaurant is pretty upscale, I think, by Dorado standards. It’s nestled down by a public beach in the same vicinity as a few more casual café/​bars, which were a pretty happening spot to be on a Sunday night… apparently, Sunday is live music night! This made it an adventure finding street parking, though we did happen upon a space a few blocks away. Once inside the restaurant, you could still hear the bass from the band playing next door at a beachfront bar. This, combined with the NFL game playing in the bar, made for a less than peaceful dinner. When you’re eating out with a six-​month-​old baby, though, sometimes it’s nice to not have to worry about making a little noise!
The food was pretty good. I had the chicken mofongo, which was a generous helping of chicken in a flavorful sauce covered by a layer of mashed and baked (?) plantains. It was a great deal for under $ 15, and I got two full meals out of it — ate the rest for lunch the next day! My brother had the Creole lobster (Lagusta a la Criolla), which was okay, though the lobster was a bit chewy. My sister-​in-​law tried the Camarados (shrimp) enchiladas, and the shrimp was delicious — I think I preferred it to the lobster. The enchiladas were definitely NOT anything like the Mexican-​style she was expecting, though. It was really just shrimp and sauce and some veggies, without any type of real bread or tortilla.
The side salads were unexciting, iceburg lettuce and a couple store-​bought salad dressings brought to the table in their original bottles. The garlic bread was a plain white bread, but we scarfed it down hungrily. We also had a bottle of Chilean wine that was pretty decent. Our server was helpful and the food was served in a timely manner. The place seemed clean and bathrooms were nicely maintained.
In the end, though, I felt like the price tag of just over $ 100 with tip seemed pretty steep given the atmosphere and quality of food. It wasn’t a disappointing meal, just overpriced for what you’re getting. If I ever returned to Dorado, I think I would eat somewhere else.

Just went there last week with my family to celebrate my sister’s graduation. They offer a broad range of Puerto Rican cuisine with plenty of seafood choices.
I had «Dorado al Ajillo con Tostones», which is mahi mahi with garlic butter sauce and a side of fried plantains, and thought it was delicious. My family had lobster, sirloin steak, flank steak, and mofongo (which is mashed plaintains stuffed with whatever ingredient you’d like — my sister had it with shrimp) and they all loved their plates.
It’s a little on the expensive side, but a good introduction to PRican food if you’ve never been to the island and would like to start trying the local food. Even if the plates aren’t 100% Puerto Rican (ahem, the steaks…), the restaurant found a way to infuse a little bit of culture into them, either by bringing «arroz con gandules» (rice with beans) with them, or making sure they added «tostones o platanos maduros» (fried plantains or fried ripe plantains).
A very BIG plus: the seafood was fresh and tasted very good. Rather refreshing, if you ask me. If you get the chance to visit this restaurant, make sure you try ANYTHING that has plantains in it — you can’t leave the island without trying one of our main ingredients! They also had a good dessert selection, and I’m very happy to say that they were all traditional desserts. Overall, I recommend it if you are interested in trying PRican food and have a couple of extra $$ to spend.