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Old San Juan offers historically and culturally significant experiences including a walk through 500-year-old forts, visits to UNESCO sites, historic churches, museums, the second oldest cathedral in the Americas and Ponce de Leon’s mansion. Cobblestone streets and pastel buildings are perfect for exploration during the day and variety of restaurants and shops make for a complementary evening.

For a homey little neighborhood bar, Little Bad Wolf has a delightfully sophisticated menu. Order items as diverse as Asian bao filled with Japanese BBQ pork or steak-shitake pate, Mexican-style elotes with tempura avocado, jumbo fried shrimp or a charcuterie board. This diversity extends to LBW’s bar where their cocktails are hand crafted, the beer list goes on for several pages and they have hard root beer on tap. Little Bad Wolf has a beautiful breezy atmosphere with a shiny copper bar and cobalt glassware, an ideal location for a late afternoon snack or an evening cocktail.

You’ll want to press your face up to the glass of the exhibition kitchen at Weft & Warp to watch the culinary masterminds create their beautiful dishes. Check it all out and then kick back at a cozy corner table and order up some charred elote (Mexican street corn), drizzled in aioli and cotija cheese, to start. Then, take your time perusing chef Adam Sheff’s innovative menu. Weft & Warp is named to honor the local textiles—weft and warp refer to the intersecting threads in weaving—and the experience is simultaneously a nod to area culture and a tasty tapestry of modern culinary techniques. Weft & Warp’s cocktail lineup takes this blended approach, listing classic drinks alongside more localized, specialty libations. The Fair Weather Phoenix, for example, blends bourbon with lemon, ginger syrup, and jalapeño agave, and the Mercury Mirage is made from smoked tea-infused rye whiskey, chile bitters, and smoked applewood. The latter is practically a tableside performance: It’s set on fire and smokes as it’s being poured from the snifter into your glass.