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Jair Sports Bar
C Emilio Castro, along from the baseball stadium.
A popular weekend
hangout with disco, serving up American-style snacks - buffalo wings, nuggets, burgers - to
help soak up the seco. Live music sometimes.
Thurs-Sat 6pm-late.
Restaurante Hotel Piamonte
Av Belisario Porras 994 6372.
Nicely prepared Panamanian
dishes at reasonable rates (mains from around $9), ensuring that the restaurant attracts more
than just the hotel guests.
Daily 7am-10pm.
Restaurante y Pizzería El Caserón
C Moisés Espino & C Agustín Batista 994 6066.
Top billing goes to this congenial open-sided joint with outdoor terrace. It serves up plenty
of moderately priced seafood and
parrilladas
(mains $5-9) and cheap pizzas (from $4), and
you can bring a beer to have with the meal.
Daily 7am-11pm.
Playa El Uverito and Puerto Mensabé
Playa El Uverito
, 10km from Las Tablas, is a favourite beach of Tableños for weekend party-
ing and picnicking, though if you come midweek, you can have a scenic stretch of chocolate
sand (ignoring the piles of rubbish on the way down to the beach, left over from said party-
ing) all to yourself. Another kilometre further south, at the river mouth,
Puerto Mensabé
also has a pleasant
beach
and excellent casual restaurant; the fish could hardly be fresher
since it's right next to where the fishermen land and fillet their catch.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE: PLAYA EL UVERITO AND PUERTO
MENSABÉ
By bus
Services for Playa Uverito (6-7 daily, 7am-5pm) leave from beside the Banco Na-
cional de Panamá on C Ramón Mora in Las Tablas. Return buses leave Playa Uverito at sim-
ilar intervals (6-7 daily, 6.20am-5.30pm).
By taxi
A taxi from Las Tablas should cost around $6.
ACCOMMODATION AND EATING
There are a couple of very nice B&Bs at Playa El Uverito a short stroll away from several
local restaurants that can cater for your lunchtime and evening meals.
B&B Posada del Mar
Playa El Uverito 394 2049,
posadamar.com
.
This lovely guest-
house, just back from the beach, makes an ideal getaway for a couple of nights' quiet self-in-
dulgence, with the possibility of water-based activities if you want. There are four well-ap-
pointed en-sui
te ro
oms (a/c, fan, cable TV and wi-fi) and a spacious patio balcony overlook-
ing the beach.
$99
Hotel La Luna
Playa El Uverito 6525 9410,
hotel-laluna.com
.
Artistically designed,
this boutique hotel comes with a lovely pool, vast tiled rooms, minimalist decor, floor-to-ceil-
ing glass windows and sofas on the balcony to sink into and watch the waves (make sure you
get an upstairs room). Though not on the beach, it is a stone's throw away and has a mod-
