Marisqueria Atlantica de Isla Verde

The meal with awesome. The Corvina was prepared to perfection. It’s a must stop when in San Juan.

Special Spanish food. We ordered the squid ink rice which is very special. The seafood combination is good too.

This is a must stop for every visit we make to Isla Verde. Here’s a tip: We have always taken a taxi to get there — around $ 15 each way, but this year we took the public bus for $ 0.35 each way. What a deal. The bus was efficient, clean and we had no problem either way. We took the T5, but realized we also could have taken the 53 as well. Now the dining: First, Atlantica is one of the few Caribbean restaurants where we order martinis because they make the perfect Bombay martinis. They have local oysters — large and plump but always unique and good. The mixed fish ceviche is excellent. For entrees we had two specials, a delicious Grouper and another fish dish that paired cheese and tomato sauce that was delightful. So a trip to Atlantica is truly a must and doing it on a bus makes it twice as great!

Great restaurant! Very easy to find. Private parking. Sea Bass is a must and monk fish stew was out of this world. Wait staff is dressed in traditional naval uniforms which is pretty cool. This restaurant is one of the gems in San Juan.

Delicious pumpkin soup. Very nice risotto but couldn’t finish it. Should have had an appetizer portion like my gut told me. Oh well. We saw a homemade strudel go by that looked amazing but was too full to eat it. The crema catalana we shared was very good. Excellent service but the place could use better lighting & a makeover. I would come back but next time would make a better entrée choice.

What a great time we had. Fresh garlic shrimp, paella, and king crab. Highly recommend the place. Nice wait staff and attentive maitre’d. Sangria was wonderful.

We had red snapper and grouper with mushroom sauce with plantains. The red snapper was great! Grouper was fresh but the sauce was very bland. It was casual and fairly relaxed for a Tuesday. Recommend the snapper!

I was suprised by the quality on the this food. The place is kind of run down and frumpy, but the ceviche and baccalo and pasta with shrimp were excellent. And I am hard to impress.

Decided to check this place out for a decadent seafood lunch treat with an old friend. The atmosphere is a little dark with many tables in a small room with many attendants hovering about. The restaurant is definitely in the tourist district and as a result of that the prices are exorbitant. The food is very well-​prepared. We treated ourselves to scallops wrapped in bacon which were perfectly cooked with a delicious seafood based brown sauce. Five scrumptious scallops were delivered on a small plate.
For the main course my friend had rockfish grilled shrimp and muscles in a tangy red sauce. And I chose to have the lobster tail at market price with drawn butter. We also treated ourselves to an accompaniment of a Dominican version of mofongo and steamed and buttered broccoli.
I have to say that $ 45 lobster tail was worth every single delicious savory sweet dense bite. I savored every delicious bite, it was only the price that was hard to swallow.
My friend agree about the rockfish, a fish not indigenous to the Caribbean. It looked like a 10 or 11 ounce portion of white fish fillet akin to a halibut steak. The muscles were Steve perfectly and the shrimp grilled perfectly.
We finished our meal with an espresso and the traffic only change. The one thing I had a struggle with was the servers didn’t really give me attention. I am an English-​speaking person, with some cursory Spanish, my friend who’s Puerto Rican made the order in Spanish but I was hardly recognized. And I didn’t appreciate that. So I’m not sure if they did not speak English or if there were other factors operating here. I found it odd in this tourist area. I was not pleased with that and for that reason they only get three stars.

Best Paella plate town… croquetas and soups are great and do not forget a good glass of Spaniard red wine…

I see that this place has been up and down on the ratings but ill give it 4 stars. The place is on isla verde ave closer to ocean park. clearly not a 5 star restaurant but fits the atmosphere of it current neighbors. Smells delicious.
I got the seafood paella. Service was the usual puerto rican service ive come to expect. Patience is indeed a virtue. Food came out warm and delicious. I would recommend it. My date got some stuffed fish and it looked a bit wet to me and that made me not want to try it so cant comment but she said it was good.
The downside is the prices. It is a bit expensive but seafood on the island usually is so no complaints.
There is definitely better places to take a date but it isnt the worst if shes got a seafood craving.

This seemed to be the only place with a place to park and although we wanted to try another one, parking is key on Sunday in Isla Verde.
We ordered pasta with lobster $ 32, octopus salad $ 16 as main and tripe appetizer $ 9. The pasta had maybe 4 pieces of lobster and between picking out pieces of shell and eating overcooked over creamed pasta this was the most expensive «noodle ala chef boyar dee» I had. The octopus salad although tasty was tiny and more an appetizer size. The tripe was so small, tapas are much larger. 2 beers. Total $ 80. They were so obnoxious that they did not even bring $.57 back change and rounded in their favor. At the end it’s not about the 57 cents. It’s about professionalism and customer courtesy. Stay away.

This place is interesting. I mean, I must have been confused when I picked this restaurant. First off, it’s a little hard to find. Siri couldn’t do it. Then the parking lot. No place to park. But, the valet took our car off our hands.
The people here are nice enough. And without a reservation, we got a table right away. Service seemed to be attentive and the interior of the restaurant was pleasant enough. As for me, I had a difficult time finding something that I wanted to order. So, I opted to start with a salad. It was huge. But could not identify some of the ingredients. But it did have tomatoes and hearts of palm. It was okay. BJ got one of the evening specials, it was a seafood dish which included fish, prawns, scallops, clams, mussels, squid and ½ of a lobster tail. It was okay, but the lobster was overcooked. For my meal, I got the Tostones & Shrimp with Manchego Cheese appetizer. I didn’t really like it. The plantains were hard and the cheese was tough. I ended up removing it and didn’t eat it.
Maybe we ordered the wrong things. And at the end of our meal, our server seemed to get lost and we had to trip someone to get them to bring us our check so we could leave. Sorry to say, this was not a good experience.

Parking lot is small so if it’s busy, expect to park on the street or valet it. There is a store attached to the restaurant where you can buy a variety of fresh seafood. Dining room is casual and has a nautical theme. Glass by the wine selection is limited to one white and one red which was a bummer. The red was a 2009 Cillar de Silos from Spain. Bacon wrapped scallops were fresh and excellent. Seafood soup is broth based with lots of squid and shrimp. Seafood paella portion was large and can be shared unless you are really hungry. Lobster and shrimp in the paella was a bit overcooked. It wasn’t bad but I’ve had better. Overall service was good.

This place is an absolute disaster.
I have no idea how you could think this is a good restaurant, except I think some may confuse pretentiousness with quality.
They got the pretentiousness covered. All kinds of pointless silverware, waiters in uniforms, waiter captains who stand around watching you eat and do little else (but oh yes they have a special tip line on the check).
Don’t be fooled. It’s stuffy, tired, the food sucks and you are going to wait for it. And I’m not the type to complain about slow service. You go to a sit down restaurant to enjoy your company and have an experience, but come on. I wasn’t even hungry by the time my plate of whatever it was supposed to be (that looked like it came straight from a diaper) came and I regret eating it to this day. One of my friends just decided not to eat his it was so bad.
I will always vividly remember waiting in that stinking restaurant waiting for my food so long that all conversation had run its course.
If you want great seafood, go to Aguaviva. I beg of you.

Their seafood was extremely tasty and very fresh. Our server Luis was a lot of fun and excelled in pleasing us in every way possible, we asked him to fry the red snapper (not in their menu) and he did, just great service!
Thanks

I really don’t know what the hype is about this place. It seems like an senior citizen center with bad seafood. I will preface this by I grew up in a crabbing town, and lived by the ocean all my life. I’m not gonna say I’m an expert but I know my seafood.
I had the lobster linguine, the sauce and pasta ratio was good but the lobster was tough. I enjoyed eating the pasta more than the lobster, which is sad. I paid $ 31 for linguine…
My friend had the salmon stuffed with crab and the dish was odd, it came with a rich creamy crab stuffing and then it was dressed with brown gravy… That gravy really didn’t need to be on the plate it really threw me off. Brown gravy is for meats, not seafood… I don’t know what they were thinking.
The atmosphere as I said seem like the early bird special at the country club. There was a family there but they kids looked so stiff. All of the waiters were older men, reminds me of the stuffy Michelin Star wannabes in NYC.
The waiter was appropriate if that should be a word to describe service, he did his job in and out, was cordial but nothing more, nothing less.
Sub par experience and quiet disappointing because so many people rave about it and say it’s great seafood in town, maybe because Puerto Rico isn’t known for there seafood, thus why you shouldn’t really take an extra effort to go here. You’re better off getting fried seafood at the local bars…
I think they only reason why I think they should have one star is that their bread was good, warm and soft with a creamy garlic butter! Don’t be freaked out by the butter, cause it looks like mayonnaise… it’s really good!

Went for a group dinner of 12 guys while in san juan for a bachelor party. Mixed seafood grill was a hit. Best meal of trip

Maybe Marisqueria Atlantica and I got off on the wrong foot when my friend and I walked in with flip flops, in t-​shirts/​shorts, and partly covered in sand. No one warned me older folks would be having business lunches. Nor that the waiters would be wearing formal nautical uniforms. Oops.
All that aside. The first thing that was slightly off putting was the cold and aloof air of our waiter– all I got were vibes of judgment and disdain (was it really that crazy that we were coming from the beach 100 yards away?). Totally unusual for Puerto Rico where people are so warm.
The food (mostly seafood) was decent– but nothing to write home about. My friend’s swordfish was a bit bland– if it weren’t for the stir fried wild mushrooms that accompanied it, the dish would have been very bland. My red snapper with cheese and tomato (a combo I haven’t had on fish before) was pretty good and probably the better of the two dishes. But frankly, it’s generally pretty hard to mess up a dish that includes cheese and tomatoes. That ish makes almost anything good.
The back dining room has a nice garden view– this I appreciated. Other than that, the restaurant seems to think it’s much more high brow than it actually is. Lots of more down to earth spots with better (and cheaper!) food in the area.

How Google Maps Almost Killed Me
Sitting in our hotel room at Intercontinental we decided on seafood, and according to Unilocal and google maps this restaurant was a 7 minute walk away.
With baby stroller in tow we leave the hotel.
25 minutes later, through some questionable neighborhoods and past a graveyard we still haven’t arrived. My travel mates are hungry and not entertained. I stare at my phone wondering how technology could lead me wrong.
If this meal is less than stellar I’m probably going to be found dead on a San Juan beach.
How Marisqueria Atlantica Saved Me.
The fact that I’m writing this and my travel mates are still friends with me is testament to how good Atlantica is.
The only weakness is language. It’s best to speak Spanish to the waiters. Somehow a glass of red wine and half bottle of white became a bottle of white. We gave up and drank it.
They specialize in seafood and do a wonderful job.
The grilled octopus, while not as good as I’ve had in Spain, had a nice garlic seasoning and not rubbery. I greatly enjoyed the paella. The rice was drier and less sticky than traditional Valencia paella and contained lobster in addition to other seafood. Not traditional but a definite winner.
Other well received dishes at our table were the red snapper with manchengo cheese and shrimp tostones
The best part ?
The bill.
3 apps, 3 entrees and bottle of wine = $ 117 before tip and after tax.
Fantastic, affordable food and saving me from wrath of my comrades ?
5 star — no question.
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1.Take a cab
2.Not vegetarian friendly (like most of Puerto Rico)
3.Try the fantastic garlic butter they serve with bread.