Restaurant Name:

La Estancia 

Type of Food Served:

Grilled meats

Location:

On Panamerican highway, right after the turn off to Coronado (direction San Carlos), across the street from Macdonald’s  

Hours of Operation:

From 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
 

Days Closed:

Open every day

Contact Info:

 Tel:  240-1695,   Manager:  Rosemarie Reyna 

Website:

Non Applicable

Owner:

Part of a Panamanian chain of restaurants including one at Albrooke Mall.

Open Since:

January 2009

Setting:

Small restaurant that can accommodate 7 tables in the air-conditioned interior area.  Very simply furnished with wooden square tables and wooden chairs.  Nothing on the tables. The menu, with pictures, is displayed on the wall so that you can see what your plate will look like and is very helpful since the menu is only in Spanish. .  The food is served on sizzling platters with wooden handle utensils. They also have a covered patio overlooking the main road, which can accommodate 6 square tables.

Parking:

Limited space In front of the building  with wheelchair access.

Menu:

This is a meat lover’s dream!  The menu offers 13 main dishes of which one is fried fish.  All others dishes are grilled meat: chicken, pork but mostly beef.  Every meal comes with 2 side dishes from a choice of 11 items.  The portions are quite generous and the meat is usually covered in a tasty BBQ style sauce.

Beverages:

Only serve  non alcoholic beverages, their ‘Pepsi’ fountain soft drinks are served in 32 oz.  glasses  at $1.50  per drink.  Canned drinks are also available at the same price.

Wine:

No alcoholic beverages are served

Corkage:

Non Applicable 

Main Meal Price Range:

Side dishes vary from $0.50 to $1.50 , Main meals are priced from $3.95 to $8.85.

Comments:

The Parillada platter at $7.25 included generous pieces of meat:   a pork chop, piece of beef, chicken, as well as a sausage (Chorizzo) and  french fries.  All came piping hot on a cast iron skillet on a board.  The small house salad was served on a Styrofoam  side plate.  Quite a tasty and filling dish.  The service was courteous, fast and efficient.    Our meal for two cost $16.50 with tip.  Pretty good value quality / quantity / price for a die-hard meat lover!

Accept Visa, MasterCard and Clave.