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Vianda,
San Juan,
PR
Chef Francis Guzmán is reinvigorating Puerto Rican farm-to-table cuisine, and he pairs it with a long list of diverse, small-production wines little seen on the island due to outdated shipping laws and prohibitive taxes. Guzmán’s food has global influences, but it’s 100% inspired by the bounty of local farms and fishers. Almojábanas (rice flour fritters) are gilded with candied papaya and bitter greens, rodaballo fish lies atop crushed batata (sweet potato), and head-on shrimp is seasoned with green plantain, crab butter and ají dulce chili.
