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The Kitchen Aruba Local Food, Italiestraat, Oranjestad, Aruba
CuisineCaribbeanLatin, Aruban
Price per personAWG 20 to 40About US$ 11 to 22
Opening hours6 days a week · from 8 AM
ReservationsBy phoneCall ahead for groups
AddressThe Kitchen Aruba Local Food, Italiestraat, Oranjestad, Aruba
This is an awesome restaurant to eat at. Prices are good and you have quite a selection of various kinds of food some athenic Aruban food, salad bar, soups, stews, lots of veggie selections, fish, steak, chicken, sausage, potatoes gravy, rice. A breakfast selection they will accommodate you as much as they can for special diets, espresso, smoothies, sodas, reg. Or decaf coffee, teas, beers, They are setup for eat in or take out please remember if you're wearing your bathing suit cover up properly because your in a restaurant weather your eating indoors or at the out door tables. It's expected to be dresses properly if your not at a beach side restaurant any store or mall. You have to come here for at least a couple of meals it's Delish. Wheelchair accessible doors, parking, tables the bathroom may be a bit of a challenge but well worth it. Aruba is amazing 😍🤩😍🤩 the food and service perfect. I can't find my pictures for this amazingly wonderful restaurant. You can either order from the menus or get your food buffet style. Plenty of free parking.
Most important fact to know that it is only open at lunch time 11am to 3pm. The place is on the southern coast, but is in a bit of run down area behind a gymnasium. I went here just after opening at 11 am. They were still cooking dishes as I get seated, but they were finished with the buffet at 1130. Everything looks to be fresh made. The salad bar selections overall were impressive. I particularly loved the Peruvian style ceviche and the grilled tenderloin. Price for the food is by pound. I estimated the food itself costs about 20ish US dollars a pound as I got a very nice mango drink to go with it (real mango puree) I highly recommend going here for the variety and the quality of the food here, just be selective in what you choose here.
Super friendly staff, mega delicious food and a fair price🥰 A perfect experience and highly recommended 💥
Very nice place with a lot of great, healthy options. I loved the salad bar, the fish stew and all the sauces and dressings. It seems like most of it is homemade. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The prices are good for aruba, since everything seems very expensive here. For all these (expensive) healthy options, I think its a great price value you get there...
Best place to eat so much variety and good people and you can choose and see the people making it
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