Sazon Bachata Restaurant

Family-owned and -operated, the eatery is one of a handful of Caribbean restaurants in the Valley. It’s inviting and informal, with the menu — which changes depending on availability of ingredients — written in chalk on the wall. If the writing is illegible, the staff will be more than happy to recite the day’s available dishes. The little place seats a total of 17, with five tables. Art, Caribbean instruments, a Dominican flag, and quirky antiques — like a Saved By the Bell-era cell phone — decorate the restaurant, while Dominican news plays on a flat-screen TV.