Foodiespr Goals and Vision
What is foodiespr.com?
Foodiespr.com is a food and beverage community based, recommendation website that allows users to search, read and comment on great local restaurants and businesses. Foodiespr.com is continuously updated with gastronomical news, articles, recommendations, deals, videos and blogs from our collaborators who include chefs, sommeliers, restaurateurs and the public for complete coverage of the industry. We work hard at building relationships with these contributing entities because we believe the most honest recommendations are a collaborative effort and can only result from a diverse perspective. So please, come join the discussion; we want to hear from you!
What is a foodie?
A foodie is an individual with a passion for food and beverage that goes beyond consumption as a means to survive. Foodies are enthusiasts who find great pleasure in the consumption, preparation, and study of food, and are eager to know more and share their findings with other like-minded people. If this sounds like you, foodiespr.com is your go-to resource to share that passion with other people just like you! Welcome!
How it works?
Foodiespr users can read and comment on foodiespr.com articles written by our experts, or start new discussions by submitting their own reviews to critic@foodiespr.com to appear under our “Be A Critic” forum.
Meet the Foodiespr Crew!
Rafael Cotto
With over 18 years of experience in the graphic design field, I have worked with some of the best publishers in Puerto Rico including El Nuevo Dia, My Pocket Concierge, Yellow Pages, Places to Go, Bienvenidos, and Camara & Comercio to develop renown advertisement campaigns. My educational background includes a Certification in Commercial Photography, a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Digital Graphic Design, and I spent four rewarding years as a professor of Graphic Arts at Atlantic Collage.
As an artist, I have always had a passion for the creative nature of the culinary arts and the technicality of food science. As a chef aficionado, I pride myself on my ability to bring friends and family together over a well prepared meal cooked with wholesome ingredients, heart and soul. And as a well-traveled, international restaurant patron, I have developed a pallet as diverse as the cultures I have visited.
Inspired by the culinary experiences during my travels, I have focused my energy the last two years on exploring the food culture and growing gastronomical revolution here on the great island of Puerto Rico. Time and time again, I found that some of the most innovative and delicious foods were being prepared in unsuspecting places far outside the metropolitan area. I wanted to share these experiences with the public, and encourage locals to explore the gastronomical revolution happening all around the island.
My goal for FoodiesPR.com is to provide a platform for the local Puerto Rican community to read and comment on all things relating to gastronomy from honest restaurant recommendations, to creative chef recipes, to local coverage of food festivals and celebrity chef television competitions. The culinary greatness of Puerto Rico stretches well beyond the urban epicenter and my hope is to shine light on all this island has to offer.
Ian Morales
I took 15 years experience in a cornucopia of roles in the food and beverage industry, both in Puerto Rico and Florida, and translated it into dining publications that speak from the heart of the industry. After doing this successfully for the tourist industry as editor of El Insider and My Pocket Concierge, I realized there was no platform bringing this gastronomical message to the local Puerto Rican population. My goal with FoodiesPR.com is to provide a voice to all contributing entities that make up the food and beverage community be it waiters, bartenders, chefs, diners or food critics.