Makarios

Frommer's Review

Set above a sometimes raucous cafe-bar, a few steps from Piers 1, 2, and 3 in Old San Juan, this is the only restaurant in Old San Juan that serves Lebanese and, to a lesser degree, Greek food. To reach it, you'll climb a flight of stairs immediately adjacent to the entrance to reach the second-floor dining room. Here, beneath a gracefully arched ceiling of a dining room trimmed in varnished wood, you can order good-tasting dishes that include baba ganoosh, hummus, falafel, baked halibut, salmon with honey-mustard dressing, grilled shrimp, grilled snapper, shish kabob, and couscous. As for the high-energy cafe on the establishment's street level, where blaring music manages to combine traditional Greek and Arabic music with the beats of highly danceable house and garage music, you might shun it completely, or find it absolutely fascinating, depending on your background and your point of view. There's a definite flavor of Middle Eastern energy here, replete with fast communications among the mostly Jerusalem-born staff.

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