All Beck's Best Restaurant Guide

Casa Nicole Restaurante is the restaurant of Casa Nicole Boutique Hotel open to the public featuring traditional American food with a Mexican twist.  Enjoy a delicious breakfast on our outdoor Read more...

Le Kliff Puerto Vallarta Restaurant, Carlos Guzmán Gutiérrez family’s architectural huge palapa wonder overlooks Bahía de Banderas moored to a steep rocky cliff on the road to Mismaloya. Diners have Read more...

Just steps away from the famous boardwalk and in the heart of Puerto Vallarta in a typical Vallarta building is Gaby’s, the traditional Mexican restaurant with delicious flavors of Mexico Read more...

Organic International menu including healthy burgers, frittatas, omelets, chilaquiles, and wood-oven pizzas like Margarita or Hawaiian. For lighter fare, try orange salad with goat cheese or a traditional Caesar; minestrone Read more...

 On the corner of Olas Altas and Rudolfo Gomez (Zona Romantica) since 1995, Dommenico ‘Mimmo’ Lorusso and his attentive staff serve wood-oven small pizzas [24 types including calzone]. Or choose Read more...

Long before the bridges were built over the Río Cuale, Alberto Pérez González in 1959 [also a singer],built the first restaurant and beach club on Los Muertos Beach. Check out their historic Read more...

Great for Bahía de Banderas sunsets and drinks. Chef Miguel Ramírez, the originator of “Another lousy sunset in Paradise” in 1972, offers shrimp crêpes; stuffed mushrooms, Aztec [tortilla] soup; shrimp Read more...

This sister restaurant of Trío receives the same attentive care of chefs/owners Bernhard Güth and Ulf Henriksson having been the recipient of the prestigious  5* Diamond Award from American Academy of Hospitality Sciences Read more...

Since 1997, chefs/owners Bernhard Güth and Ulf Henriksson [who also own Vitea on the Malecón in El Centro] have operated this popular, fine-dining restaurant, a proud recipient of the 5* Diamond Award from Read more...

A top choice Italian restaurant.  Italian cuisine [tre piatti in Italian mean 3 plates] offers 3 choices from a 3-course menu under the watchful eyes of chefs/owners Chanan and Natalie Aguirre. Pastas, Read more...

Willy and Rita Nuño’s tasty and healthy breakfast and lunch fare is prepared-by-order, nearly preservative free, and is vegan, vegetarian, and gluten friendly. Smoothies with protein powders if you wish; housemade muffins (organic blueberry oatmeal are Read more...

Colorful, old-style restaurant, operated by owner Lola Bravo and waiter Cuco López García,  features indigenous recipes and traditional sauces rarely available in Puerto Vallarta. Step back in time surrounded by artwork Read more...

Carlos owns this sidewalk taquería serving  good, quick and tasty food. Renowned for his tacos al pastor [shaved meat with pineapple] and pork kebob volcánes, full plates of a variety of Read more...

A Top choice upscale Bistro restaurant Chef David serves a unique selection of tapas, pizzas, salads, and full plates either on the sidewalk or inside a hip designed dining area Read more...

Favorite local breakfast spot since 1987 for Memo Barroso’s 60+ breakfast or brunch. delicacies eggs Benedict with homemade English muffins, huevos rancheros, omelets, cheese blintzes, frittatas, fruit plates, Mexican breakfast burrito, waffles and Read more...

Owners José Alfredo González Padilla and Executive Chef Mario Ibarra Rubio operate a colorful restaurant with an open-air rooftop [high season] serving traditional Mexican dishes. For starters, try Azteca soup Read more...

Owner Sean Moore’s Mex-Tex restaurant Nacho Daddy features all your Tex-Mex favorites—nachos [four], fajitas, quesadillas, tortilla soup, tacos, tamales, burritos, chimichanga, tostadas, chili fries, burgers, and chile relleno. Boutique Dinner Read more...

Adalberto Enrique García Pérez’s [nephew of Alberto of La Palapa and Vista Grill] small Bohemian-type neighborhood café  offers delicious breakfast— French toast, hot cakes, crêpes, huevos al gusto, omelets, chilaquiles and lunch— great salads (shrimp mango Read more...

Owner Sergio Miramontes prepare traditional Mexican breakfast and lunch (brunch) buffets which changes daily. Featuring the recipes of Señora Rosaura Altamirano [Mamá Rosa], this is an easy way to learn or taste a wide variety of Read more...

Puerto Vallarta’s first artisan craft brewery is operated by Conner and Stephanie Watts. Traditional Mexican lager beer from a Canadian-operated cervecería pours home-crafted beer [six choices] and includes hoppy IPA, Read more...

Two owners, Christophe Bevilacqua and Catalina Egard Gonzalez, operate this authentic French casual dining spot complete with a pine bar and cushioned banquettes. The chalkboard wall menu often features starter Read more...

From the kitchen— ceviche; portobello quesadillas, cheeseburgers with fries; Baja-style fish or shrimp tacos; and battered or grilled, peel-your-own shrimp.  From the wood-fired grill—dorado [mahi mahi], whole red snapper, shrimp mojo Read more...

In the newly remodeled, former home of Elizabeth Taylor (Casa Kimberly), Janice Chatterton of Hacienda San Angel has paid special attention to every architectural detail and Chef Eduardo Michaga Lucero’s expands his Mexican Read more...

Janice Chatterton’s gorgeous antique-filled, luxury boutique hotel offers courtyard, candlelit garden, and roof top terrace dining with Bahía vistas. Executive Chef Eduardo Michaga Lucero’s Mexican mestizo and international cuisine will Read more...