Casanova's
Excellent food and beautiful setting as a beach front restaurant. Service is excellent, located in Cabarete beach.
Gaudi Tapas Bar
Spanish restaurant serving a wide variety of tapas, drinks and fine food. Located in the Village Square plaza where years ago operated the famous Casablanca bar.
Presidentes both grande and pequena, once virtually the sole choice besides rum drinks due to the policy of the beer company providing refrigerators on loan and Bohemia, are now being challenged by Brahma, another locally brewed beer of Brazilian origin as well as Quilmes an Argentinian beer. Several of the bars now stock European and American beers at a premium price. Brugal, the local rum with its company headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Puerto Plata, will be placed in your rum drinks unless you have the savy to ask for the Barcelo another local rum which is of far superior quality. Mixed drinks tend to be rum based and cost more than beer but "when in Rome." Many of the restaurants and bars have a happy hour from 4-7PM which is often 2-1 drinks.
On the beach, there is an endless array of restaurants along with the souvenir shops stuffed with the same goodswhich serve drinks and each small swath of beach has a different person who provides concierge service for a modest fee $0.30 USD per drink. As one leaves the beach there are a number of expatriate bars and restaurants clustered towards the end of Pedro Clisante closest to the beach. The Checkpoint Pub is popular during the Day. The Brittania restaurant has an excellent Happy Hour and Rudy's has a weekly Karaoke night. There is a substantive international community who frequents these establishments which lends a cosmopolitan feel to this end of Town. As one heads away from this expatriate area, Pedro Clisante is dominated by discos and bars which are companionship friendly. This end of town rather than being reminiscent of San Sebastian in Spain harkens to the nightlife of Manila. The Club Classico is the fountainhead of Sosua nightlife with the burgeoning Sosua Life just a few blocks away. There are also a number of Casinos in and around the town if you are interested in trying your luck. Sosua is a friendly Town, prices and ambiance vary greatly within the Town.