Bahía Beach's First Four Seasons Anniversary Starts in the Kitchen

At Bahía Beach, the 2025 rebrand mostly changed the rooms. The dining rooms are changing now, in the weeks before the first anniversary.

On November 20, 2025, the former St. Regis Bahía Beach Resort reopened as Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico. The visible work that year was design. All guest rooms and suites were redesigned, and the design firm Meyer Davis refreshed the interiors at Casa Grande and the Lobby Lounge. The restaurant names in that opening announcement were El Bembe, Paros, Seagrapes, a pop-up sushi bar, Turtle's Nest and Sand Dollar.

The list reads differently going into the anniversary. The lobby bar has a new name, and two new restaurants are slated for early November. Paros and Seagrapes are no longer on the resort's dining page. The rebrand came first, and the Four Seasons version of the menus is arriving a year later.

The Recognition Stayed the Same, So the Menu Is a Choice

Michelin rated the property the same way on both sides of the brand change. According to News is my Business, the resort received a Michelin Key in October 2026. As the St. Regis, it had received the same distinction in October 2025, a month before it began operating as a Four Seasons. The guide awards one, two or three Keys, and one Key marks "a very special stay." Its inspectors weigh architecture and interior design, service and comfort, character, value for money and the property's contribution to its surroundings.

The resort held the Key through the transition, and it is rebuilding its restaurant lineup from that position, giving the property a culinary identity of its own as the first year closes. General Manager Pablo Molinari said as much in the September 30 dining announcement. He called the openings "an exciting milestone in the continued evolution of our resort." He also said they reflect a commitment to "creating experiences that resonate with both guests and residents."

That reference to residents matters to anyone who owns at the Four Seasons Private Residences or lives nearby in Río Grande. The general manager names residents alongside guests as the audience for the new restaurants.

One Chef, Three Rooms

All of these changes run through Executive Chef Victor Rosado. In the opening release, Four Seasons described him as passionate about the cuisine of his native Puerto Rico, a passion that goes back to cooking with his grandparents as a child. He later worked with Jean-Georges Vongerichten and José Andrés. News is my Business counts him among the Puerto Rican professionals who returned to the island when Four Seasons arrived.

His work on the lineup started in the lobby. In April 2026, El Nuevo Día reported that El Bembé was launching a new food concept led by Rosado. By the end of September the room had a new name too. It is now Palm Court. According to the resort, it still serves Puerto Rican and Latin-inspired flavors, handcrafted cocktails and light bites, and remains "the social heart of the Resort." The room and its spirit continue under the new name.

The two new restaurants carry Rosado's name from the start.

Perla is a supper club. The name means "pearl," and the resort says the concept is built around the spirit of sobremesa, an evening of dining and lively conversation. The tableside service includes a Champagne, Martini and Caviar Cart and a chef-led caviar service. Signature dishes include:

• Dressed oysters
• Hamachi with guanábana ponzu
• Chilean sea bass
• Prime New York strip
• Large-format tomahawk steak and whole Dover sole

The resort set an early-November opening for Perla, and its page lists dinner from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Ocean Terrace sits beside the resort's pool and shoreline and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is also scheduled for early November. The menu is Mediterranean: handcrafted pizzas, housemade pastas, fresh seafood, salads and shareable starters. Signature dishes include charred octopus, shrimp insalata, Margherita pizza, mussels al limone and an Italian adobo half chicken. The resort also plans recurring brunches and seasonal programming.

The Italian adobo half chicken is where Rosado's background shows most clearly in a Mediterranean menu. Adobo is the seasoning of the Puerto Rican home kitchen.

The new lineup also keeps the two roles the departed restaurants filled. The opening release described Paros as Mediterranean cooking with local seafood and produce from the on-site organic garden, and Seagrapes as an open-air restaurant serving the catch of the day. The resort still has a Mediterranean room on the water, now called Ocean Terrace, and a seafood-forward dinner room, now called Perla. Perla moves seafood dinner from an open-air setting to a supper club with caviar service.

The Resort Mapped by the Hour

The resort's dining page lists eight outlets, Perla and Ocean Terrace among them. Hours vary widely by venue, so the most useful way to read the lineup is by time of day:

1. 7:00 a.m. Breakfast starts at Palm Court and runs until 11:00 a.m. El Cocoteros Grill opens at the same hour and serves until 6:00 p.m. every day.
2. 11:00 a.m. Palm Court changes to lunch until 4:00 p.m. Turtle's Nest opens for al fresco dining until 5:00 p.m. Beach Club Restaurant also opens at 11:00, but only on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, when it closes at 9:00 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday, when it stays open until 9:30 p.m. It lists no Monday or Tuesday service.
3. Noon, weekends only. Sand Dollar serves Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m.
4. 4:00 p.m. Palm Court starts dinner, which runs until 10:00 p.m. At 5:00 p.m. its sushi service begins, Thursday through Tuesday, also until 10:00 p.m.
5. 6:00 p.m. Perla's posted dinner service begins and runs until 10:00 p.m.
6. Any hour. In-room dining runs 24 hours a day.

Ocean Terrace will cover breakfast, lunch and dinner across this whole span, although its page does not yet list service hours.

Laid out this way, the lineup shows where the evening is headed. On Monday and Tuesday, when Beach Club Restaurant lists no service, Palm Court and room service carry dinner, and Perla's posted hours add a dedicated dinner room to those nights and the rest of the week. The sushi that appeared in last year's release as a pop-up now has posted hours inside Palm Court. Both changes push the resort's dining later into the evening.

Perla's First Festive Season

The timing of these openings also lines up with the resort's second December under the Four Seasons name. The 2025 opening release tied the start of its Puerto Rico experiences program to the inaugural festive season. For 2026, the company's global festive-season announcement lists three things for Puerto Rico:

• Complimentary bomba, plena and salsa dancing
• A hands-on workshop covering mofongo, coquito and traditional fritters
• Perla's first festive season

The resort's Christmas page is where dates and details for the season will appear. The announced program fits the rest of the year: a Puerto Rican chef cooking Puerto Rican flavors into each new concept, and a holiday season built on bomba, plena and coquito.

For anyone who lives within a short drive of Bahía Beach, the most practical change of the anniversary season is that the property beside El Yunque is adding a supper club and an all-day oceanfront restaurant to a renamed lobby bar, all under one Puerto Rican chef.

At Wow Real Estate Puerto Rico, we keep close track of how Bahía Beach and the Four Seasons Private Residences are changing, including changes as everyday as a new dinner room on a Tuesday night. If you would like a resident's view of what this next chapter at the resort means for how you live there, we invite you to begin a private conversation.