{"id":706,"date":"2019-10-13T20:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site115.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/10\/13\/toro-salao\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:09:45","slug":"toro-salao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/2019\/10\/13\/toro-salao\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Salao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Toro-Salao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Toro-Salao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Toro-Salao.jpg 640w, http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/116\/files\/sites\/116\/2019\/10\/Toro-Salao-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toro Salao (367 Calle Tetu\u00e1n, Old San Juan) &#8212; The name means &#8220;Salty Bull,&#8221; and there&#8217;s something about this place that makes its moniker entirely appropriate. (And it&#8217;s not just the bullfighting posters that decorate one of the two-story-high walls.) This popular Spanish-Puerto Rican tapas restaurant was opened by Emilio Figueroa, who helped turn the southern end of Calle Fortaleza into the city&#8217;s top dining destination. There are plenty of small dishes to share, such as a delicious baked brie that&#8217;s served with crostini and topped with a chorizo jam (yes, a sausage jam); crispy mahimahi fritters; and Spanish-style flatbread pizzas, called cocas. They also make their own fresh pork sausage. The dining room, with a bar lit up in lusty red, is pleasant enough, but the tables that spill onto the adjacent cobblestone square are even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Salao (367 Calle Tetu\u00e1n, Old San Juan) &#8212; The name means &#8220;Salty Bull,&#8221; and there&#8217;s something about this place that makes its moniker entirely appropriate. (And it&#8217;s not just the bullfighting posters that decorate one of the two-story-high walls.) This popular Spanish-Puerto Rican tapas restaurant was opened by Emilio Figueroa, who helped turn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-puerto-rico-en","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.puertoricovip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}