Don Julio Bar & Grill

Been there for a mid afternoon meal — I am a vegetarian — they made a great chilie rellano for me. Bloody Mary’s was awesome — staff attentive — my husband enjoyed his flounder — I asked for a side of their mango sauce to add a kick to my dish — overall a good place in RP

Food was good not amazing. Ac. Service from Luis was awseome. Free WI fi. Cool glasses. Friendly. Spoke english. The owner cared enough to come talk to everyone. The restroom was interesting that had the tallest urinal I’ve ever seen in my life. Happy they had clean restrooms. The rest of my party was very very happy with their bill.

Don Julio’s was formerly on Boulevard Fremont, and now on the Malecon across the street from Beach Bum and Lucky’s Cantina (sort of).
DJ’s is a pretty nice restaurant with seriously above average food, service and location.
We ate here yesterday around sundown. We opted to eat indoors with the AC (a rare thing on the Malecon) even though there is nice outside seating, rooftop and street-​side. We’ll do that in the Fall and Spring.
We had a Cabernet Sauvignon, Pescado (fish) del Chef and Pescado Diabla. All excellent.
The PDC was flounder stuffed with shrimp, garlic, tomato, bacon, etc with a buttery sauce. The Pescado Diabla was flounder with a red sauce. I’ve seen PD on other menus, so I was curious when partner ordered it. The wine was Chilean (Casillera something) and was pronounced «really good» by my partner. The individual glass of wine was poured from a bottle opened at our table. Definite plus.
I expected the Chef’s Special to be good, and it was. The Diabla will probably be an entrée for me to ponder next time, because I liked the red sauce; a delayed, slow, pleasant tang/​burn. The flounder seemed a little dry, but this was the 1^st time I’d tried this preparation, so I’ll try the same entrée elsewhere and compare.
We walked to the restaurant from our hotel (Vina del Mar), so parking wasn’t the festive game it normally is, and the restaurant is ADA compliant, if that’s a concern (it is to us).
A couple of things seemed slightly off-​kilter for a restaurant this nice. There are 4 sizeable (40″?) TVs inside which seemed distracting to me, so we’ll just eat outside next time (cooler temps). And I hadn’t noticed that no bread was offered with our entrees until we wanted to sop up our respective sauces halfway through the meal. Our server offered us tortillas and/​or bread when we asked him. Problem solved.
There are a LOT of good restaurants here, so choices are difficult. I THINK this is on our short list. We’ll have to discuss.
btw, $ 39 before tip. Not bad.