Ancestral Culinary Experience

Punta Cana Opened Opening date unknown

An eight-course Taino tasting menu, just eight seats a night

Eight guests, eight courses, one table. Ancestral Culinary Experience builds its entire chef's table around Taino cooking, the food that existed in the Caribbean before 1492. No buffet, no fusion shrimp cocktail.

Carmen hosts every seating herself, walking guests through ingredients that were growing on this land centuries before the first resort went up. It's $185 a head at La Castellana 1, downtown Punta Cana, and one of the year's most talked about openings.

La Castellana 1, Downtown Punta Cana © OpenStreetMap

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