Why Orlando Visitors Choose Grillers Puerto Rico

Skip the Theme Park Food. Eat Like a Local.

Every year, millions of visitors come to Orlando and eat at the same hotel restaurants and theme park counters. A few of them — the ones who ask a local where to actually eat — end up at Grillers Puerto Rico. And almost every single one of them says the same thing: "This is the best meal of the whole trip."

Central Florida has one of the largest Puerto Rican communities in the United States — which means the demand for genuine, uncompromised Puerto Rican food is real, and so is the supply. Grillers Puerto Rico, founded by Chef Jose Antonio Martin Grau with 25+ years of culinary experience, serves the kind of food that Puerto Rican families grew up eating. That means you're not getting a watered-down tourist version. You're getting the real thing.

Dishes You Can Only Get at Grillers

The Chuleta Kan Kan is three cuts of pork on one plate — loin, belly, and ribs — with the most crackling, golden skin you've ever seen on a pork chop. It's $35 and it's the most photographed dish in the restaurant. The Bacalaito Grillers is a signature codfish fritter stuffed with shrimp, conch, and octopus — a Grillers original that doesn't exist anywhere else. The La Chorrera combines the Kan Kan with garlic cream shrimp cascading over a mofongo bowl in one breathtaking presentation.

And then there's the mofongo. Puerto Rico's most iconic dish — garlic-mashed green plantains formed into a bowl and stuffed with protein — comes in 9 varieties at Grillers: shrimp, steak, chicken, octopus, conch, mahi-mahi, surf & turf, the legendary Crocante de Pernil (wrapped in crispy pork rind), and more. For visitors who've never had mofongo, it's a revelation. For those who have, Grillers Puerto Rico is the gold standard.

A Genuine Cultural Experience, Not a Tourist Attraction

The Kissimmee location features live music every Friday and Saturday night — real Caribbean rhythms in a restaurant where the staff, the food, and the energy all feel genuinely Puerto Rican. This isn't a curated "cultural dining experience" designed for tourists. It's a local institution that welcomes visitors warmly.

Guests can explore Puerto Rican dishes such as mofongo, pernil and churrasco during their Central Florida visit. For current customer ratings and review counts, consult the Google Maps listing of the particular restaurant you plan to visit.