Restaurant reviews, home cooking, and the dining experiences worth writing home about — from Panama City to wherever the next meal takes us.
The last night of the trip we made it count. Brutto is one of those restaurants you keep hearing about from people who live in Panama City — the kind of place locals are slightly possessive of, where the food is inventive without being pretentious about it. It sits on the
Tucked away on the ocean deck of the JW Marriott Panama — the striking tower that most people still call the former Trump Ocean Club — La Vespa Vista Mare is one of those restaurants you stumble into and immediately wish you'd known about sooner. With sweeping views over the
One morning we decided to stop pretending we were roughing it and had breakfast at the Waldorf Astoria. The hotel sits right on the edge of Punta Paitilla, steps from Balboa Avenue where it runs along the bay, and Brio Brasserie — their French and American brasserie on the ground floor
The rule for the whole Panama City trip was simple: somewhere new every single meal, no repeats. With a week in the city and a neighborhood like Casco Viejo to work through, that was easy enough to stick to. We'd spent the morning walking the cobblestone streets — looking
One of the things we set out to do in Panama City was eat somewhere different every single meal — with so many incredible spots in this city, it felt wrong to go back anywhere. And we mostly stuck to that. Except for 5inco Comida Urbana. We went back twice. No
Our rule for the Panama City trip was simple: eat and drink somewhere new every single time. With a city this good, repeating felt like cheating. So every meal, every drink stop, we were finding somewhere we'd never been. Sama Sky Lounge was one of those finds — and
After a morning at Brew Coffee, we had the rest of the day to fill — and the rule was the same as every other day on this trip: somewhere new for every meal. We were staying near El Cangrejo, so we started wandering Vía Argentina looking for somewhere interesting for
A slow, savored breakfast at Brew Coffee Company in Panama City — specialty coffee sourced from Panamanian highlands, a stunning P&J toast with edible flowers, and the kind of atmosphere that makes you order a second latte just to stay a little longer.
We arrived in Panama City with a pretty simple plan: do nothing for the first afternoon. Just check in, find the pool, and decompress. The JW Marriott made that very easy. The hotel sits right on the waterfront in Punta Pacífica, and the pool deck is one of those setups
