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Cozumel Restaurants, Part 2

Moderately Expensive ($15-25 per person for a full course meal with appetizer or dessert and drinks)

 

La Lobsteria

This gracefully rustic restaurant has a great setting -- a typical Mayan house, circa 1899.

 

Located on a very quiet corner of Avenida 5 and Calle 7 the restaurant has a charming, laid-back atmosphere. Some nights they have soft, live music and you can always eat by candlelight under the palapa covered roof or on the little terrace. The specialties here are the freshest lobster on the island as well as shrimp and fresh fish all simply but elegantly prepared. Lobster tails sit on ice by the bar with the prices marked on them. Choose the tail you want and they'll cook it for you.

Lobster Prices are about $10 US/lb and they're served with two kinds of drawn butter, crisply steamed vegtables and rice. The lobster tails we had were sweet and delicious -- not overcooked and tough like some we've had elsewhere on the island. The coconut shrimp for $12 US was also excellent with 8 medium large, very fresh shrimp fried with freshly grated coconut. The bowl of seafood soup (sopa de maricosas) at $70 pesos was well-seasonsed and generous in the amount of seafood in the bowl. Give this place a try. We really liked it and we're food snobs. Mon-Sat 4:00 to 11:00 PM NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Manati's

This is a lovely little open air place owned by a Frenchman married to a Mexican. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, the service is friendly and informal, the food very good, the prices reasonable. And such a pretty atmosphere in one of Cozumel's oldest remaining downtown structures.

There's live music Thursdays through Saturdays in the evening. We should also put this restaurant in the 'cheap eats' category for lunch. They have an excellent "comida corrida" lunch special. For $50 pesos -- under $5 US -- you get a home made fruit drink, home made soup, a loaf of good bread with herbed butter and your choice of 5 entrees served with rice and vegetables. Try the grouper (mero) with cilantro sauce.

 

 

Sonora Grill

This charmingly decorated restaurant sits perched on the second story over looking Juarez at the corner of Avenida 15, 3 blocks in from the waterfront. Good, basic Mexican cuisine with a very attentive staff. This is a super place for eating well while you and people from your second story balcony table.

Lunches and dinners are in the moderate to moderately expensive price range but generously portioned and well prepared. Breakfasts are bargain priced in the 35 peso range including coffee. Pictured above is one detail of this very pretty restaurant, a talevera tiled well.

 

La Choza

A long-time favorite of many return visitors to the island, this palapa-roofed restaurant near the heart of downtown San Miguel serves up good Yucatecan cooking in a really nice atmosphere.

 

Our daughter always demands to be taken to this place when she visits because she likes both the food and the downtown cosmopolitan Yucatan atmosphere. If you speak Spanish you can order the "comida corrida" for your lunch. Aqua fresca, sopa and choice of 5 or 6 entrees for around $5 US. If you went came back from a fishing tour with a good catch, this is the place to take it. For $5/person they'll prepare your fish with 3 different sauces! Breakfast Lunch Dinner Corner of Salas and Avenida 10. 1 block north of the south wing of the plaza. One caveat: this is one of the places where they pay the taxi drivers to recommend them. Therefore it tends to be very crowded some days. Be assured if you run into one of these days, there are plenty of other places recommended here that will serve the same fare.

 

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