Dining
PUERTO AVENTURAS
Acentos
Description: Delicatessen restaurant, gourmet market with fine wines and cheeses.
Contact: 984.802.8636
Al Cielo
Description: Upscale beach restaurant with mouth watering paella. Reservation required.
Location: Just south of Puerto Aventuras on the beach next to their boutique hotel.
Contact: 984.840.9012
Art Cafe Crépe ✭
Description: Wonderful savory and sweet crépes, fine espresso, ice cream, books, world art and eco-friendly soaps.
Contact: 984.873.5950
Bamboo
Description: Coffee, smoothies, ice cream, treats, paninis, and free wifi.
Contact: 984.106.6537
Blackbeards
Description: A local watering hole with pool table.
Cafe Cafe
Description: Fine espresso, desserts, light breakfast and lunches. Internet cafe with computer for use or wifi, international calls and printer.
Contact: 984.873.5728
Cafe Olé
Description: Mexican/ American with fresh seafood, salad bar, rib night and homemade pies. Live music throughout the week.
Contact: 984.873.5125
Dos Chiles
Description: Traditional Mexican cuisine.
Contact: 984.873.5783
Gringo Daves
Description: The liveliest spot in the village. Mexican/ American cuisine and gigantic margarita. Live music and karaoke throughout the week.
Contact: 281.414.5229
Italian Bakery
Description: Wide variety of International food and pizza.
Contact: 984.873.5651
Massimo ✭
Description: Fine Italian cuisine, offering homemade fresh pasta. * The mushroom ravioli is a favorite!
Contact: 984.873.5418
Mikmale
Description: Traditional Italian, breakfast and pizza.
Nativo ✭ ✭
Description: Natural fresh food and juices. The best prices in town! A local’s favorite.
Contact: 984.129.7042
Palma Manati
Description: Sit on a swing under a palapa and have a drink and light bite.
Pizza Aventuras
Description: Great pizza for delivery.
Contact: 984.802.8888
Richard’s
Description: US Grade A steaks, seafood and salad bar.
Contact: 984.873.5086
SiSiSi
Description: Texas size meals with International cuisine with a Southern flare.
Taco Paco
Description: Wonderful fresh fish and shrimp tacos with many condiments to add.
Tiramisu
Description: Italian cuisine fused with Mexican and classic America flare. Bring in your fresh catch and they will prepare it for you in ten different ways.
Contact: 984.873.5654
The Pub
Description: Ice cold beer served up with traditional pub fare and Mexican cuisine.
Contact: 984.873.5130
Tu Parador ✭
Description: Freshest of fish around, impeccable host and a remarkable worldy menu. Bring your own wine or cocktails, the liquor license is pending.
Location: A little hidden, but a gem to find! Just outside the gates of Puerto Aventuras on the other side of the overpass you will find a beautiful Palapa - Tu Parador. Either walk, ride bikes or drive there (you will have to enter the highway heading North, make a u-turn and take the exit for Puerto Aventuras. At the round about go straight, almost as if you are getting back on the highway. It is to your right.
Contact: 984.807.5412
Xenote
Description: Mayan, Yucatecan and International cuisine on the beach at the Omni Resort.
Contact: 984.873.5086
The Mayan Riviera offers a diverse selection of mouth watering restaurants that will entice any palate. Here are a handful of restaurants worth the trip, organized by town.
AKUMAL
La Cueva del Pescador Restaurant
Description: Sand floor, outside seating in a romantic candlelight setting. Owner is a local fisherman, so fresh seafood is a speciality.
Location: The entrance, after the arches to the left.
Lol Ha
Description: This thatched roof restaurants is expansive with many different settings to dine both indoor and outdoor.
Location: On the main beach of Akumal Bay.
Que Onda
Description: Traditional Italian cuisine, homemade pasta and fresh seafood.
Location: In the center of Akumal.
Turtle Bay Cafe & Bakery
Description: Owned by expats of the US who have a wonderful array of freshly baked items, fresh healthy cuisine, burgers and such.
Location: Follow the main road in Akumal to just before Yalku lagoon.
PLAYA DEL CARMEN
Alux Restaurant & Bar ✭
Description: Located in a gigantic underground cavern. This place is a magical sight to surely see! Flickering candlelight and live music set the moods.
I recommend going for an appetizer and drink, then move along to 5th avenue for dinner.
Location: 3 blocks west on Avenue Juarez off of Highway 307.
Contact: 984.803.2936
Amore
Description: Wonderful Italian food, European style pizzas, fresh bread.
Location: 5th Avenue between Calle 28 & 30.
Babe’s Noodle House
Description: Asian inspired cuisine, great cocktails, fabulous prices.
Location: 2 locations off 5th Avenue, see website for details.
Ipanema’s Grill
Description: Authentic Brazilian Steakhouse, serving over 20 delicious char-grilled meats. Angus beef, lamb, pork, poultry, seafood and more.
Location: 10th Avenue between 10th and 12th Street.
La Casa Del Aqua
Description: Picture perfect setting, flavorful International cuisine, fine wines.
Featured in Condé Nast travel magazine.
Location: 5th Avenue and 2 North.
La Floresta
Description: A local’s favorite, a taco roadside palapa. Incredible prices, full flavor.
Location: Right off of Highway 307 on the west side.
Nativo ✭
Description: Fresh vegetable and fruit market with a restaurant at it’s side. Serving up tropical fruit smoothies and wonderful food.
Location: 30th Avenue between Constituyentes and Calle 20.
Contact: 984.873.0758
Negro Sal
Description: Upscale dining, wonderful cuisine, spectacular presentation.
Location: 16th Street, between 1st north and 5th Avenue.
Contact: 984.803.2448
Yaxache Maya Cuisine ✭
Description: Casual yet sophisticated phenomenal restaurant with wonderful service. The food is simply divine.
Location: 5th Avenue, On 8th Street, between 5th and 22nd Street.
Contact: 984.873.2502
100% Natural
Description: Wholesome array of fresh food, drinks, light bites and exotic cocktails.
Location: 5th Avenue between 10th and 12th Street.
* For all of the Starbucks addicts, there is one in Playa Del Carmen.
TULUM
Hechizo
Description: This unique restaurant with no menu and no set prices is quite a delight. The menu is created daily depending on what fresh items they could find to blend into perfection. The owners met while working at the Ritz Carlton in Singapore and have traveled the world since then.
Reservations are a must at this 9 table establishment.
Location: Towards Tulum beaches, take a right at the fork in the road, head south.
Contact: 984.100.0710
La Zebra’s ✭
Description: Homestyle cooking, outdoor grilling will turn your mouth watering. Sunday bbq pit specials and Sunday night salsa classes are a hit!
Location: Towards Tulum beaches, take a right at the fork in the road, head south.
Mezzanine ✭
Description: Exquisite authentic Thai fusion food, perfect Brazilian caipirinha’s, impeccable service all in an amazing beach setting.
Location: Towards Tulum beaches, take a right at the fork in the road, head south.