Juan Carlos Camarena

Great food, nice atmosphere, and excellent service. They also have very good cocktails, beautifully prepared and full of flavor. The place itself is stunning — located right in the center of Puerto Vallarta, with a gorgeous garden that makes you forget you’re in the middle of the city. There’s often live music, perfectly balanced so you can still talk and enjoy your meal. The combination of good food, a calm ambiance, and friendly staff makes it a wonderful place to spend the evening. It’s a bit expensive, but absolutely worth it for the quality, the atmosphere, and the experience. Perfect spot for a romantic dinner or a special night out in Puerto Vallarta.

Angela Ngo

We were vacationing in PV for our friend's 40th birthday and this was our one special birthday dinner. We did the tasting menu with wine pairing. Compared to US prices, the menu was a steal. It was the right amount of food and it was all so good. It was nice to have a choice for each course too. Jorge and Jonatan also did a lovely surprise for our friend's birthday when we got to the final dessert course. Made it extra special. Definitely a memorable experience.

+4

Manav Chordia

We had our anniversary dinner here and it was such a brilliant experience. The hostess was great and the food served was tasty and catered to us being vegetarians. I opted for the wine pairing which was an experience. It got real busy and that’s when the atmosphere and the experience felt too busy. But I think it’s a good reflection of living life and enjoying great things.

+3

Alan Lopez

This was an amazing experience. Why this restaurant is not Michelin adjacent I do not know. My beautiful fiancé and I went for the omakase menu, or menu de desgustacion. This works incredibly well for two people as you can try the entire menu. The chef and staff led us on a carefully curated journey through flavors of the Mexican coast. Every dish worked, albeit some were better than others, to tell a story of the unique approach of French/mexican fusion. This is a must for high dining in Vallarta. Live music and an impeccable staff only elevates this experience even further. This place is must eat if you want the best of Vallarta.

+8

Oded Kassirer

This place is not a restaurant. It’s an experience, so be prepared! Starting with the absolutely gorgeous decor that will literally leave you speechless. Continuing with the attentive, professional yet very friendly service. And ending with the artwork, I mean the food dishes… which are really more like art than anything else. Many interesting flavors and ingredients that the waiter explained to us for each dish. We spent about two hours there and left feeling elated, satisfied and inspired. Highly recommended.

+15

Martin Harrisson

Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta is an absolute must-visit for anyone looking for an unforgettable dining experience. From the moment we stepped in, we were welcomed with warm hospitality and an ambiance that perfectly blends elegance and romance. The candlelit garden, soft live music, and exquisite décor create an atmosphere that is both intimate and enchanting. The food? Simply outstanding! Every dish is a masterpiece, beautifully presented and bursting with flavor. The ravioli was rich and decadent, while the ribs was cooked to absolute perfection. And the desserts? Pure artistry—don’t leave without trying the signature chocolate experience! The service was impeccable—attentive, professional, and genuinely kind. The staff truly goes above and beyond to make guests feel special. Whether you’re celebrating a special occasion or simply treating yourself to an extraordinary meal, Café des Artistes will exceed all expectations. This is not just a restaurant—it’s an experience, a celebration of fine dining at its best. We can’t wait to return!

Esther Schenau

Absolutely gorgeous evening atmosphere, the restaurant is built around a few trees and the table settings were impeccable. The lighting was done really well. There is live music that travels from table to table. The food is delicious and the portion sizes were excellent. We highly enjoyed date night here!

+2

Our favorite spot in PV! Daniel and Paco took excellent care of us. It was our 3rd time coming here and the food and service never disappoints… highly recommend the short rib, the morel + truffle rav…

One of the most incredible meals I have had. Palo and Daniel created a very memorable experience. This is a must visit on your trip to PV

Beautiful restaurant with food and service to match. Excellent choice for a special occasion or a wonderful night out in Puerto Vallarta.

Beautiful restaurant with food and service to match. Excellent choice for a special occasion or a wonderful night out in Puerto Vallarta.

Beautiful restaurant with food and service to match. Excellent choice for a special occasion or a wonderful night out in Puerto Vallarta.

We had a fantastic experience celebrating our anniversary. The place is spectacular, the service is impecable and the food is simply delicious, specially their octopus. We will always be very h…

We had a fantastic experience celebrating our anniversary. The place is spectacular, the service is impecable and the food is simply delicious, specially their Octopus. We will always be very hap…

We had a fantastic experience celebrating our anniversary. The place is spectacular, the service is impecable and the food is simply delicious, specially their octopus. We will always be very hap…

Absolutely our favorite PV restaurant and we've been checking them for 25+ years. Great setting, ambience and outstanding food. Our server, Daniel, gets an A+++ on all counts, definitely a consumm…

This was our second time at the Cafe and first time in the garden area. Absolutely perfect. The service was spot on, food great (albeit more than we could handle!) and entertainment unobtrusive and…

Everything about this place is fantastic! Lalo was an amazing waiter! Beautiful atmosphere! Food was flawless. Thank you!

This was our second time at the cafe and first time in the garden area. Absolutely perfect. The service was spot on, food great (albeit more than we could handle!) and entertainment unobtrusive and…

Amazing service and food. Giovanni and Gael were fantastic from the very beginning. drinks, food and dessert were top notch. 10 out of 10 would recommend and come again.

Full disclosure, I am not a fan of fancy restaurants with fancy menus and lots of ingredients. My criticism, if you want to call it that, ends there. cafe des Artistes was a great dining experienc…

Café des Artistes is a true dining experience! They recently renovated the patio and it is beautiful. The food is excellent. The cream of prawns and tomato soup is absolutely delicious! While the…

The 3 of us agreed that cafe des Artistes with KiKi and Jorge serving us, was possibly the best dining experience of our long lives

The food and serice was amazing. Jorge and Victor were extremely attentive and helped us navigate the wonderful menu and drinks. As an aside one of our party left their wallet at the table and the …

We had a very romantic dinner. The service was excellent and the food was delicious. Jorge and Daniel were top notch and made amazing recommendations. We had the tuna tartar to begin and that was…

This is a MUST SEE place!! Make reservations much in advance but it will be so worth it! The food is impeccable, the service is fantastic and it is like you are stepping into another world. We l…

Bartholomew Hatler

The setting was beautiful, the service was fantastic, the food was hit and miss. We dined in the garden and I wouldn't suggest anything else, although the restaurant is lovely. I don't have unreasonable expectations, living in Mexico, But I was a little disappointed in some of the dishes. There were some dishes that were very tasty and some that were disappointing. Overall a great experience. We loved the experience for our anniversary, we just weren't as excited about the food as we had hoped to be. I wouldn't recommend against visiting here. We had the prefixe menu, perhaps ordering off of the regular menu would be a better idea? Maybe we'll try that next time. I had the wine pairing and it was quite tasty, I enjoyed trying some of the Mexican wines. We had two servers dedicated to us and they were fantastic, friendly and very attentive. I don't think I've had better seamless service at a restaurant in Mexico and I've been here for 2 years. The manager stopped by a couple of times and was very gracious and hospitable in response to a comment I shared with him. Fantastic music all night long. A great experience. Just don't expect California or New York level dishes (perhaps a few), but you won't be paying the prices either.

Café des Artistes is a stunning restaurant with exceptional food and generally wonderful staff, which makes this experience all the more disappointing. I made a 4:00 PM reservation and clearly not…

Café des Artistes is a stunning restaurant with exceptional food and generally wonderful staff, which makes this experience all the more disappointing. I made a 4:00 PM reservation and clearly not…

Café des Artistes is a stunning restaurant with exceptional food and generally wonderful staff, which makes this experience all the more disappointing. I made a 4:00 PM reservation and clearly not…

Excellente service and atmosphere in the central garden and experience with a degustation menu with wine pairing, good wines from Mexico not usual ones and from europe

Don’t go here until after 11/8. I went tonight (10/29) and discovered that they are doing a major renovation in there. (They gave no warning when the reservation was made.) It was sitting in a con…

Sally K

The atmosphere and overall concept of this fine dining restaurant were good and thoughtfully designed. The space felt elegant and interesting, and the service was generally attentive. However, the experience did not match the price or expectations. The portions were extremely small. We ordered an urchin and tomato salad, which came with only one small piece of urchin. We also ordered poached oysters that were described as containing pork feet, but the servers were not able to clearly explain the dish or its components. It was our anniversary. I did not have high expectations, but at least a small gesture would have been appreciated. Instead, we were given two very small strawberry cakes and were still charged for dessert. Compared to other fine dining restaurants in Mexico, this felt disappointing. I first ordered a cocktail and later asked for a non alcoholic option. I asked the server if they could recommend something similar to what I had before. He pointed out the menu, which was fine, but then brought me a drink without checking back to see if I liked it. The mocktail was very thick and heavy, something like mango chili, and I honestly did not enjoy it at all. I still finished it, but it was not a pleasant drink. They also brought bread as a starter, but the pastry tasted strongly like margarine, which was surprising and not what I would expect at this level. The food itself was mixed. My boyfriend ordered a fish dish that was tasty, but the crust on top was not enjoyable. I ordered a beef and lamb dish, but the cauliflower purée flavor was barely noticeable and the chipotle was extremely subtle. I would not consider this an authentic Mexican restaurant. It was more experimental and interesting than traditional. The foie gras crème brûlée was excellent and truly the highlight of the meal. However, even the espresso was charged separately, which felt excessive considering the overall bill. Service details were lacking for a restaurant at this price point. When I asked a server to take our photo, the pictures were poorly taken, with a greasy camera lens, and no care was given. When I asked for sugar with my espresso, it arrived without a spoon. After asking again, a dessert spoon was provided instead of an espresso spoon. At the end, dessert was presented on a mirror with small cakes and sorbet, which felt outdated and inconsistent. Our neighboring table was celebrating a birthday and received a much more generous presentation, while ours felt minimal. We paid over 300 Canadian dollars, and unfortunately, the experience was not worth it. While the atmosphere and concept were good and the staff was polite, the food was average, portions were too small, and the service details did not meet fine dining standards.

+15

M M F

Our recent experience was utterly unacceptable. The service and meal were subpar, and the manager and wait staff exhibited a lack of accountability. We were seated in the garden, which was undoubtedly beautiful, but it was plagued by insects, ants, and debris from the trees and plants that fell into our $35+ CAD beverages. Despite us immediately notifying our server, he responded with indifference and failed to provide a solution. He just shrugged and said there’s nothing he can do. We requested napkins to cover our drinks and removed the insects and tree bark from our glasses. We did not wish to contaminate our meals with insects and leaves so we asked our server for a new table inside which he said could be accommodated. We attempted to pace our meal by ordering appetizers first and entrees later. Unfortunately, the server denied our request and insisted that we order everything at once. While this was acceptable, we kindly requested that each item be served individually so that we could fully appreciate each before proceeding. By the time our server located an empty table for us, we were told to carry our own drinks to the table where all three of our hot appetizers were already waiting for us. To our dismay, each appetizer was cold, and no salt or pepper was provided. The server also failed to provide a sufficient number of spoons for the table, so my husband and I were forced to share a spoon to consume the soup, which is an unacceptable practice. Throughout our dining experience, we were consistently neglected and unable to get the attention of any staff member. Notably, my mother-in-law inadvertently left her water glass at the first table, resulting in the removal of the water we had paid for. When we brought this matter to the attention of the server, he failed to retrieve the water glass or water until we had to request it a second time. When I expressed my evident frustration regarding the service and the fact that they got rid of our water, the server responded dismissively, snapping back at me, “This water will be free then”. However, our request was not for complimentary water; we just wanted some baseline service. To exacerbate the situation, 3/4 of our entrees arrived, but the shrimp entree I had ordered was missing. Despite our repeated inquiries, no one could provide an explanation. Fifteen minutes later, our server informed me that the order had not been processed, leaving me to sit while the other three diners at our table consumed their dinner. The server said it would take 12 minutes to make the shrimp entree I had ordered. I was shocked at this response and told the server to just leave it as my family had already finished eating at that point. Although I am not typically confrontational, this was a $850 CAD dinner, and I was both hungry and frustrated. Consequently, I stood up and informed the server that I needed to speak with the manager. Surprisingly, as soon as I rose and engaged in a conversation with the manager, the 3 members of the serving crew simultaneously brought the bill to the table and activated the bill payment machine. This was the quickest service we had experienced throughout the entire evening After discussing the situation with the manager, he was apologetic and explained that they had hired a guest chef, which had contributed to their busy dinner service. He offered to cover the cost of the meal, but unfortunately, the servers seized upon the opportunity to have my father-in-law pay while I was engaged in the discussion with the manager. This just further reinforced the lack of accountability and competence of staff at this restaurant. Overall, this was a profoundly disappointing experience, and I strongly encourage others to not dine here. This is an expensive place and I would hate to have someone’s special night be ruined by the lack of service and poor communication. Cafe des artiste is an utterly inadequate excuse for a high-end restaurant. If you want to go somewhere really special with great service and exceptional food, try Iguana at Casa Kimberly.

+2