My driver recommended this place and it was a perfect spot to wait for the ferry! I had fried chicken wings and fries and they were delicious! They have a good menu and I will be back! Chickens are all around the island so you might see some pop in and out lol read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Wings and fries - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Went to this place twice. Drank the first time and ate the second time. The food here was amazing. The beans actually had flavor unlike some of the other restaurants on Vieques. read more

It very convenient is has an accessible ramp, the food is mainly local, they got amazing pina coladas. It's a great place also to drink. read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Piña Colada - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Very conveniently located steps from the Vieques ferry terminal. Clean bathrooms! The one waitress was very sweet and bilingual. She handled everything in the front of the restaurant with grace. We had a group of 10 place orders and with one chef, it took some time to prepare our food. But once ready, the food was wonderful! Fried grouper sandwiches in a slightly sweet bun and mofongo and sweet potato fries on the side were a highlight! We also ordered garlic butter chicken, empanadas, chicken quesadillas, arepas con beans, and Caesar salad. Everything was quite delicious. We dined while waiting to board the ferry and saw lots of people entering the waiting area next to the ship. While we were one of the last groups to board, there was still plenty of seating on the 2nd floor of the ship, so don't worry and enjoy a last few moments of Vieques island with good food! read more

Great service, from a waitress who was a recent transplant from North Carolina. Everything we had was fried -- mostly good if that suits your palate. Fried mahi mahi sandwich was great, with a generous side of sweet potato fries, and the mahi mahi platter was excellent. Nephew did care a lot for the roast pork -- bricks of fried pork that were hard and sort of dry. Great view of the ferry and bay. read more

Their Garlic butter shrimp with white rice and beans and tostones. To die for. Delicious! Highly recommend if you love shrimp. Laid back atmosphere. Love love the owners. Bilingual. If something is wrong, speak up. They do their best to accommodate . Right next to the ferry dock. Wonderful location. Great place to have beer and lunch while waiting for your ferry! read more

Stopped in for a drink while waiting for the rental car company pick up after getting off the ferry. Decent prices, good drinks and great service. Annette is friendly and helpful even when busy with lots of customers. Didn't eat but the food looked and smelled great! read more

Near Ferry!! It's all fried but convenient. Service was good. Tostones were great. It seems like a local spot lots of people just sitting around and loitering. read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Waiting for my tostones order pre-ferry back to Ceiba - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Nino and his family are such friendly proprietors @ El Yate. They are wonderful, warm, and sincere. The drinks are very reasonable and the food is good . read more

Looked for a quick bite near where we were staying. The service was okay, took a little while to get my order, and I had to ask them where my order was. The server told me it would take 20 mins, but they forgot to bring out my order when it was ready (took a total of 40 mins). There are a lot of locals and tourists who were here ordering drinks and food from them while I was there. We ordered a variety of items to try. We got some rice and beans. The beans were delicious, they had pumpkin and peppers in them. Would probably eat this a lot if there was nothing else to eat. Very good umami flavor. Also got some maduros (fried sweet plantains) which were good, a classic fried sweet plantain. We also got the mahi mahi, fried pork chunk, fried pork chop, and arepas. The mahi-mahi was a bit dry and had no flavor. For the Arepas, there was nothing inside of them, but they were served with a side of beans. They were cooked well, similar to a pita but crispier. Went super well when you ate it with the beans. The fried pork chunk & pork chop was fried in oil directly with no breading, sorta crisp outside. The meat was tough but still good, it was seasoned lightly with salt, pepper, and some spices. Came with the standard ketchup mayo sauce. Pretty good with rice & beans combo. Overall, this was a decent place to eat at. read more

I was referred to go there by a local taxi driver so it had to be good. I got the mahi mahi and sweet plantains, both were excellent. It was a good amount of food so you will be full. The fish was juicy, flaky and tender with a blend of salt, spices and garlic. Plantains were your classic sweet and fried. The wait was ~20min with no people in front of me. I'd go back and try the grouper! The spot is great as it's right by the ferry so you can keep an eye on it. read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Mahi mahi and sweet plantains - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Service terrible The food was raw Like seriously we've been waiting there forever just to get some food like it took like 20 minutes just to get a couple plates of food and most of them were raw And it wasn't like plain old like to raw steak. It was straight up raw chicken are they trying to give us? Food poisoning read more

Expect to see locals at this late night joint. Their kitchen closes at 9pm. There are some fried food options for you to order. We stopped by for some drinks (Approx $4). The bartender will fashion you some drinks based on your taste. It was a fun night getting to know the locals! read more

Excellent food and service. Owner and family extremely accommodating to visitors. My family felt at home. Thank you read more

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By far the WORST meal I had in ALL of Puerto Rico last week. This "restaurant" (if you could even call it that) is located right off the Fajardo-Vieques ferry terminal, which is the ONLY reason that we came to it before the return ferry back to PR mainland. Let's get this out of the way... here is everything terrible about this place in bulleted formats: -no design, generic, plastic, dirty environment -FREEZERS where the guests dine (the protein is all sitting in here and the chef emerges from the dirty @$$ kitchen to grab & go back in) -service is atrocious. the "waitress" never came around & constantly got mad at us for asking questions/requesting unique/special orders. it took FOREVER to get our bill -FOOD IS AWFUL. FROZEN meat. The chicken all tasted like rubber. the pork chops were overly salty, MSG-filled, the salad was from a $1 bag from the grocery store. the cheese was cheap and stale. AWFUL. -Pina Coladas "with rum" for $6 had barely ANY rum... but tasted OK. -sweet plantains were DELICIOUS... quite possibly their saving grace There's also a bar in front, which looked like fun... you can't mess up a Cuba Libre. If you're EVER in this area. JUST COME FOR DRINKS... and sweet plantains... lol read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - someone near/associated with the restaurant just sent me this "compliment." 0 reviews & 0 friends... how obvious is this. - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

First I would definitely never recommend anyone coming here for food nor drinks unless you want to wait a whole day for your order. Second the customer service is seriously disgusting and disrespectful I kindly ask the women who was taking orders how much longer for my food and drinks and I was given a disgusted face and ignored for over 30 minutes. read more

Came here for dinner on a Wednesday evening on a recommendation from our hotel manager. The food was delicious!! I had the fish sandwich and rice and beans, and my partner had the Cuban and amarillos (sweet plantains). My sandwich was excellent and the rice and beans were out of this world. My partner said that his sandwich was good too (I didn't taste it), and the plantains were also amazing (I did taste those). We also shared the arepas and beans, not realizing the beans would be the same as the rice and beans, but honestly we were not unhappy to have extra beans to take home since they were so good. It was not crowded at all when we went, so the service was fast. The hostess was lovely and we chatted a bit after dinner. Would definitely recommend if you're in Vieques! read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Fish sandwich, rice and beans, Cuban, amarillos, and arepas and beans. - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Wow, we were looking for dinner while waiting for our ferry back to the mainland and stumbled upon this place, which is literally yards from the ferry terminal. We found the food and the service to be amazing and depending on where you sit, there is a halfway decent view of the water. The empanadas were literally among the best we ever had, ever.... The mofongo and pork chunks were simply amazing. The tostones, rice & beans and sweet plantains were also great. The "chicken on the grill" was good, but nothing special. I'm not sure if it was just a matter of wrapping up a perfect day at the beach, where anything would've been great, or if the food was truly just that great, but, regardless, we will definitely be checking this place out again next time we are on the island. read more

Amazing restaurant. The Grouper sandwich is outstanding. Combine it with a Painkiller while waiting for the Ferry, and you're all set. Great prices and service, too. A five for them!!!! read more

Awesome inexpensive food right by the ferry terminal. The fried pork, arepas, and fish were all delicious

Fresh, delicious food. The whole fried grouper was phenomenal and the beans with arepas were so good we ordered a second round. This meal was one of our favorites in Puerto Rico. read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

My husband is Rican and loved their pork chops. I.had grilled chicken....thank goodness it wasnt laced in Adobo. The cooks like to go easy on it due to it being salty. It was very good. Great atmosphere with all the locals hanging out and Spanish music playing. Great view of the harbor while eating. read more

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Nice lunch (4 stars ) Our first day in Vieques and our attendant at the Inn reommended this place. A quick walk and we were there in about 10 minutes. We got beer and watched the people disembark the ferry. We got octopus salad with fries, and Conch with sweet plantains. Lady was friendly and service was quick. Price was right. read more

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GROSS!! $18 for a mahi mahi that was clearly frozen and not fresh. It tasted like canned tuna. Service was extremely slow and there was only one other table. read more

This place is a gem! It doesn't look like much, but the food is excellent. Everything is fresh and delicious. Try the empanadas. The whole snapper looked amazing. We had Cubanos and beans and rice. Everything was great. You should definitely make a stop here when in Vieques!! read more

I ate here several times throughout my stay. on the island. The price was perfect the food, flavors and portions where perfect. The service was dead on correct. They tend to sometimes run out of supplies I do not blam the business. This is part being on the island and is well within the norm. Besides your on vacation so who cares... read more

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Near to the vieques dock ... Barely a minute walk ... Had great Mofongo and veggie quesadilla with rice and beans ! Cheap and good food for great service ! read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Mofongo - banana and something with garlic and butter - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

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I'm not being dramatic when I say this is the best food in Puerto Rico. Period. THE EMPANADAS! Order all do them. THE QUESADILLAS. THE BEST IVE EVER HAD. I'm not kidding here, you have to go. Really reasonably priced too when compared to San Juan restaurants. read more

Jollene is great! El Yate may taut some of the most authentic PR cuisine on the island. Youll have to try them all to make your own conclusion. Try the mofongo, if you love garlic. The mix of garlic and mashed plantain is rather interesting, yet appealing. We had the pork chops and cubano on our maiden voyage. Chops were cooked to perfect. Tito enjoyed the bone scraps. Portion size of the chops was nearly enough to feed 2. The cubano was everything I could ask for. Meat cut from the bone, fresh melty cheese with spicy, tart dijon. Ask for the Puerto Rican mayo for your fries and mofongo. Definitely a hint back to the Old world, not to mention a killer playlist. read more

Great service and wonderful food. We highly recommend. After we ate lunch, we hit the bakery --so good!!!

Food is very affordable, but service was blah. Its a lot for fried food, have a nice bar right by the Ferry. So if your hungry and can't wait stop here and grab some food. read more

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We wandered in during ferry time: tons of people rushing to get their meals before the ferry came. The service was a bit slow, even after the ferry rush, but the waitress (who may have been the owner) was extremely nice, and chatted away with us. Drinks: we ordered two piña coladas. Nothing great, think they were a mix, no fruit garnish. Meal: Conch salad (great conch, a bit heavy on the oil), rice and beans (great!) fresh catch of the day (deep fried grouper was good!) and sweet plantains. All in all, a pleasant meal, local flavor & scene (no ambiance) and extremely friendly staff. read more

The best food you will ever have!!! Fresh fish grilled to perfection and the shrimps were amazing! Best part of this place? The service!!! The owners are amazing people who make you feel at home! Our waiter Juan was simply the sweetest man ever! He went above and beyond for our family! If you find yourself ever in Vieques, I strongly suggest you come to El Yate. It's a local joint, not a high class place, but definitely wonderful people who will make you feel at home! read more

El Yates Bar And Restaurant - Get the fish!!!!! So good! - Puerto Rican Near Me - Vieques, Puerto Rico

Service was slow and food pretty bad. We showed up around 11 am, pretty hungry. Took 20 min to get a menu, an hr for our food. Drinks were slow too. Food was dry, bland, and overcooked. It seemed like most of the crowd was there to drink, but with such slow service, I'd rather go elsewhere. Especially avoid the fried plantains and pork, they're dry and unflavored. It wasn't expensive though, so at least there's that. read more

Can't give no stars I guess cause that's what I'd do for Getting food poisoning here the night before last. It was the first place I ate on the island after eating a chicken empanada. It has been a real trip wrecker and furthermore destroys my faith in eating an this island and many more to come. read more

Seriously, best food I ever had in the US (except for the Maine lobsters). My husband and I had a dinner and a lunch here. The Churrasco is sooooo delicious. We also had seafood mix and yellow snapper as today's fresh catch. All I can say about the food is PERFECT. It worths all the waiting. read more

I was extremely disappointed in this place, mostly for the horrific service. We were in there for 20 minutes before we were acknowledged by the waitstaff. We ordered drinks and food, and it took another 20 minutes for the drinks to come out. Meanwhile, an annoying group of teenagers blasting a boom box were served drinks and food within minutes. The waitress come to check on them several times but seemed to not realize we existed. When I went up to the bar to pay the bill, she seemed appalled that I would bother her at the bar and not wait for her at our table. The food, meanwhile, when it finally came out, was actually pretty good, which is why I'm not giving this place a 1 star review. We had a chicken sandwich and a quesadilla. I would recommend to avoid this place. read more

El Yate is always the first choice for my husband and I. We get great food and great service, every time!!! Right next to the ferry, there is no reason to miss this place during your visit to Vieques. read more

First let me say that my visit was part of the best day ever. We went fishing and caught lots of fish, next we had them cleaned at the local fish market and then headed to El Yates where we met Jolene the owner. She is super nice as everyone is on the island. El Yates is super local, lots of fishermen from the market, people in town and family of Jolene's. We asked if she would prepare the fish we caught and she said "yes". She asked that we get sides and stuff to offset the cost and that was no problem. We got areas, beer, and two sides and it was like $20. We left a $20 tip as she made the best whole fish I have ever had. It was marinaded in a delicious lemon juice and peppers. She made the grouper and snapper perfectly. I can say that this place is the most authentic cuisine we are on island and her fish is always fresh as her restaurant is across the street from the fish market and near the ferry terminal. For the few nay Sayers on here talking about el Yates not being good, just get the local cuisine. Seafood and you will be very impressed. Thank you as el Yates made dinner on my best day ever! read more

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Right off the ferry. Not pretty but once you go inside the staff is very friendly. Cheap drinks and the food is good. All freshly caught!