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Intimate, built on wood and featuring chat-friendly tables that are ideal to make pals as the smell of burning logs wafts across the place, this Italian restaurant serves delicious homemade food.

The name La Dolce Vita was not given by chance. It rather appears to fit in perfectly because enjoying simple and genuine things about life is what this eatery is all about.

Maybe that's why this restaurant has captivated visitors since it opened fourteen years ago. Its local and foreign patrons come here time and again during their stays in town. It closes at 2:00 a.m. every day, giving you plenty of time to have fun without having to look at your watch.

The moment you read the menu card, you notice this is indeed an Italian restaurant: antipasti, fresh pasta, chicken, meats, seafood and oven-cooked pizzas. Variety is almost endless. There are dishes for all tastes, absolutely traditional cuisine and daily specials served seven days a week. All ingredients are a hundred percent natural, bought by the pampering owners themselves. Bread, fresh pasta and pastries are thoroughly baked first thing in the morning in a quest for perfection.

If you have the opportunity of waiting for a table next to the balcony that overlooks the seawall, the sound of waves will make you feel like being in a peerless setting. The picture is complete when the ordered food arrives. Pasta and pizzas are simply irresistible. The complementing warmth of the owners and the rest of the staff simply tells you where to find La Dolce Vita when in Puerto Vallarta.