Maito @ Coco del Mar, Panama City

The GM of Panama office took the courtesy to bring us (visitors) for a dinner before the Project Manager flew out to another office in the Caribbean region. He recommended one of his regular place, which is Maito Restaurante located at Coco del Mar. It is rated as top 50 best restaurants in Latin America.

We each ordered a cocktail, can't remember what's this called but it was not in the menu. It is specially requested by the GM who knows the owner very well.

The 'boss' GM who treated us dinner. He is a reputable lawyer who specializes in corporate and commercial law. 

This restaurant serves very weird dishes....sort of fusion and modernized Panamanian cuisine....

[Below] I don't know what this is called coz the menu is in Spanish, but this a dessert with strawberry & cream at the bottom. You need to break the piece of 'deep fried corn sheet' and dip it with cream.

Another dessert of 'coconut & tiramisu' ice-cream and 'lemony citrusy with coconut' ice-cream.

All these 3 desserts have distinct flavor.

if u r into dessert, these would be your favs.

Now, back to the mains.

We ordered a few dishes for sharing.

We had squid ink rice with some squid and prawns topping.

Grilled prawns

Smoked duck

[left] plantain chips and [right] squid with some kind of dressing.

He also ordered a ribeye steak. The waiter then cut it into pieces for us.

Duck 'chow mein' - fusion of Chinese and Panama style.

A table of us from different continents - Latin America, Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

Here's the restaurant website if you wanna know more about their unique fusion cuisine.