Puerto Rican cuisine includes a lot of vegetable dishes cooked in different styles. Common accompaniments to staples like beans and rice are the fried greens (tostones), baked greens (amarillos), or mashed and fried greens (mofongo). A puree made of garlic, sweet pepper, onion, coriander, tomato and oregano is used practically in all local dishes.

Vegetables apart, seafood, beef, pork and chicken are extremely popular. Visit any local Puerto Rican restaurant and you will come across chicken and rice (arroz con pollo), tuber soup and beef or chicken (sancocho), chicken and seafood, and rice soup (asopao), and fish cooked in oregano and garlic (adobo). Along the beaches, there are several food outlets that will serve stuffed and fried turnovers, cheese corn sticks, croquettes made from stuffed bananas, and fish fritters. Most coastal restaurants will also serve sweet Caribbean lobster dishes, including fresh dolphin fish (not porpoise) and red snapper fish dishes.  

San Juan area has numerous restaurants for all budget types.