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Looking for a good cup of joe while in Rincon? Craving a real American-style coffee house? Look no further than Banana Dang. Banana Dang is a great local coffee shop located on the 413, next to the Lazy Parrot Inn. They serve great coffe, cappucinos, espressos, the works – not to mention yummy smoothies. Most …

One of the best weekly deals in Rincon, at a local place with great ambiance, is the Monday night $.25 wings and peel-and-eat shrimp at Bar Nativo. Located a bit off the beaten path on Corcega Beach, near the Deportivo (turn right past Rincon Sports Complex and follow the signs), Nativo has an “American sports …

So you can’t do a Cheap Eats Rincon series without mentioning Happy Burger. A local’s favorite, this snack-bar style eatery is open late night to serve all your drunken cravings. (if you’re driving around hungry and everywhere else is closed – which usually happens around 9:00 – 9:30 these days – Happy Burger is sure …

I’m kind of on a kick with the food thing here, so I’m continuing with the Cheap Eats in Rincon…. If you know anything about Puerto Rico, you know that the lechon or lechon asado (aka roasted pig) is somewhat of a national sensation here. (check out the Bizarre Foods episode for more proof – …

So, there are lots of options for good eats, cheap, in Rincon. You just really need to know where to go and EXACTLY what to order. What we’ve found is that it’s not necessarily what, but where, that matters. For example, you can get item #1 at place A and it’s great, but item #2 …

It’s true! The long-awaited Super Foods is finally open in Rincon. One thing that Rincon does (or did) not have was a health food store. We’ve been hearing rumors and seeing the construction for several months now and just biding our time, hoping that “island time” would catch up and Super Foods would open. Well, …

So, for the entire time we’ve been living here, people have been raving about the English Rose for breakfast. For whatever reason, we hadn’t been there until just the other day. I think we underestimated just how good it would be and we overestimated how pricey it would be. The English Rose (La Rosa Inglesa) …