Showing posts with label Tulum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tulum. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2018

10/28/18: Tulum food pics

Tulum was kind of a blur, but here are all the meals (mostly tacos, clearly) interspersing the wedding and touring.


Taqueria Honorio:



Don Cafeto:


that small pepper on the left was super hot. I wasn't paying attention and ate it whole, only to have heat build up for like 5 min, forcing me to sip Muslimah's shake to try to reduce the pain.



Antojitos La Chiapaneca:

Not pictured: the best al pastor tacos I've ever had. Deeply flavored and not too fatty or dry. I went back a second time, and they weren't quite as good.


El Asadero:

Unremarkable and pricy for what it was.


Unnamed food carts around here:

Right was an excellent pork stomach taco. Left was a decent cochinita pibil.

Unremarkable but big huarache.


Some hippy shop:

Offering what else, an avocado toast. It was good, though, per Muslimah.


Pretty ratty taco stand across from Playa Del Carmen General Hospital:




El Chamicos:


A huge ceviche. We could have gotten the smaller sized one and been quite full. Good but repetitive to eat that much ceviche.


Don Beto:

Solid cochinita pibil. Don't get the torta here, they say. Too dry.

Very good carne asada.


El Paraiso hotel, beach spot, and restaurant:
We availed ourselves only of the restaurant part. Was good to do some people watching for what amounts to a very small but aspiring resort.

Forgot the retro style Fresca cans existed. That mango salsa was so unripe that we sent it back.

The mixte presented in a moljacete.


Kitchen Table:

Ribs. Good. The plaintain fufu starch side was intriguing. Like a homemade energy bar.

Catch of the day -- a snapper filet.

Skirt steak. Pretty well seasoned, managed the toughness of skirt steak pretty well.

Octopus. Very well executed. One of the best octopus dishes I've had.


A big ol avocado, maybe a Hall?:

Perfectly ripe and delicate flavor.


Guy Fieri's American Bar and Grill at the Cancun Airport:
We didn't have a ton of options at the airport that included drinks.
Don't say we're not up for a food adventure.


Wings were bad.

Fries were fine.

Burger was fine.

Cheescake was quite good, actually, and 4 of us polished this off.

Friday, October 26, 2018

10/25/18: flying to Tulum

Woke up, last day in Italy. Didn't sweat trying to eat one last decent breakfast. Got a hot dog at the train station from Mr. Panini. And I'll be damned if it wasn't pretty good. The same goes for the Italian airline food. Really, there's no excuse.  Neos might be a budget airline, and they might not have even tried to seat us together, but they certainly didn't on the food. The gnocchi for dinner was better than half the gnocchis I've had. Everything on the Alitalia flight was equally fresh and well judged. It's just down to whether the operator thinks your meal satisfaction is worth eating into the profits. 

Landed in Cancun, checked out our crappy rental car, which wasn't even a manual like I tried to reserve. Drive 1.5h in the dark at an effective 7am in the morning with only some hours of sleep on the plane. Now resting at the hotel.