Excellent food, excellent service, and a beautiful restaurant We had the squid ink pasta which was out of this world. Octopus carpaccio was another outstanding dish. read more

Elegant Italian restaurant that had surprisingly excellent food, with disappointingly and expensive wine choices. Cenacolo moved recently to La Isla mall across from where we were staying. With its all glass walls, the space was elegant and inviting. The kitchen was all glass so you can see the chefs preparing the food. We didn't have reservations, but the hostess found us a great table. Our main server was Alejandro and he was more than helpful in making sure we ordered what we wanted. With Italian food, I also prefer very good Italian wine versus a cocktail. He pointed me to 2 red wines that were bold and heavy as I requested. Both were just OK, but expensive. Wines by the bottle was ridiculously high. Regardless, he was great in steering me to the type of dishes more suited to what I was asking for and not just the most expensive. This restaurant has been highly recommended by my brother and sister in law for years. They had told us it was one of the best Italian food they have had anywhere. But, In its previous location, it just looked a bit stuffy for a CANCÚN vacation meal. At its new location, though it was still upscale, it seemed more approachable to us somehow. We just came back from a 10 day vacation at the Amalfi coast, and Rome, Italy. We found the pastas at Cenacolo to be comparable if not better. We had bruschetta, Ragu spaghetti, lasagna, and their chocolate soufflé. We had read that the soufflé was outstanding so we ordered 2. We were NOT disappointed with any of the food items. read more

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We came here for Mother's Day as a family of 6, including our three little ones ages 4, 5, and 7, and everything was absolutely wonderful! The food was delicious from start to finish, and the service was truly impeccable. The staff was warm, attentive, and made our entire family feel so welcomed. Our kids ordered the ragù and absolutely loved it, which says a lot with little kids! Honestly, I can't even remember the names of all the dishes we ordered because we were too busy enjoying every bite, but everything that came to the table was flavorful, fresh, and amazing. Such a perfect spot for a special family dinner. We left full, happy, and already looking forward to coming back! read more

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Service and food here always amazing. The new isla location is awesome and do love the views. Food on point and always amazing service. The pacchari con calabaza is delish and the bruschetta is amazing. Love the presentation of the soup served tableside and drinks were on point too. A def must go read more

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The new location across the street from Westin Hotel is very convenient and beautiful. The host was Italian and spoke both English and Italian very well. The waiter was very personable and attentive. The pasta wheel was as amazing as I remembered from our last visit and the pasta with squid ink was great. The appetizer s were equally delicious. When in Cancun this restaurant is a must. Make reservations and ask for a table by the window. read more

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My group and I stopped here while on a week long vacation in Cancun. We stay on a resort nearby and go out to eat every night and this place is a must stop every year. It is one of my favorite restaurants in the hotel zone and some the best Italian I have eaten. We had a group of 10 and were seated in a private room. The service is top notch. Everyone is so helpful and kind. They have an extensive wine list that is sure to satisfy any craving. Before dinner, they bring bread with cheese and spicy onions and peppers that is delicious. My personal favorite meal is the green hats, but I really don't think you could go wrong with anything on the menu. Everything they serve is the perfect balance of flavors. Everyone in our group loves their meal which is why this place continues to be a staple for us year after year. I look forward to coming back to Cancun just to eat at the restaurant. Our time and money is always well spent here and we have always had a wonderful time and incredible food. We do not do all inclusive, but even if you do, I would still recommend making a stop here. read more

In the mood for Italian food while visiting La Isla in Cancun? Well Cenacolo will hit the spot. I was hungry for lunch early and saw this jewel box on my walk near my hotel. They open at noon till late. They have large English and Spanish menus with tons of special dishes. You will not receive better service anywhere in Cancun, and it rivaled the best service I've experienced (although I don't do Michelin restaurants). They greet you warmly, and do their best to anticipate and accommodate your every need. From pouring your water/beverage to catering to dietary needs, they have this down. I had a very good ragú with freshly made pasta. The sauce was meaty, with bacon and pork and beef with a tomatoey sauce. It tasted just the slightest of Mexican ingredients which added a great flair to the dish. They provide three types of bread, including focaccia and sesame breadsticks, with a ricotta spread and spicy onions that are a must-try. Cenacolo is high class Italian dining on the shores of the lagoon in Cancún! read more

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This place has been here for a very long time. Not exactly where it is now since it has moved several times from its initial opening. What I want to stress is that the food has been consistent over the years and it continues to be an amazing authentic Italian restaurant. The new location in La Isla mall right in front of the lagoon is also fantastic. The food just amazing and made the way it should be. I highly recommend this place! read more

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We have frequented this restaurant for over 20 years at 4 different locations and it never fails to deliver a great dining experience. Pasta is made on site and is delicious Service top notch Hats off to our server Blanca both personal and attentive. Current location right on waterfront read more

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Bueno, buen ambiente excelente comida. .Su nuevo local en la isla luce muy bien y elegante. Una experiencia a mejoría.... Servicio!! Deben agradecerle a Jenry nuestro mesero que salvó la noche con un excelente servicio que él se voluntario a ofrecer mientras mi mesero asignado nunca llegó... Jenry... eres el mejor! Capacitación en servicio al cliente.. por favor!! read more

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This place was amazing So amazing, that I ate there twice for both lunch and dinner. The food, the service, the ambiance..all 5 stars. read more

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Great service. The wine selection is very good. We have the Valentina Salad, excellent choice We have a pizza for my child. Very fresh and tasty. Our Prime steak with vegetables was excellent. read more

Cenacolo - Great view from the restautant - Italian Near Me - Cancún, ROO

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My friend and I came here for my bday dinner while in Cancun. I know...who eats Italian food in Cancun?! The food was great! The restaurant is situated in an open air mall adjacent to our hotel which was really convenient. The walk over was short so my thighs didn't have time to sweat. Lol. The ambiance was really nice. They have outdoor seating overlooking the marina. The salad with bread service was delicious. The bread was served with pickled onions and a ricotta and parmesan spread. Amazing! My bolognese was very flavorful. We shared a panacotta..I wasn't a fan. They also brought out one with a birthday sparkler. My only gripe...a BIG one is that the waiter inspected our money right at the table. We used american dollars instead of pesos. He claimed this was to ensure the bills were "ok" because if not he would be charged for them. I thought this was very unprofessional and tainted what was otherwise a great dinner. Left a sour taste in our mouths and cost them 2 start in this review. read more

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From the host who was very attentive getting us a table with no reservations and very professional with us to the end even giving a special dessert for my wifes birthday every detail in our table was top notch, the napkin, the utensils, making sure our table stay clean and comfortable, the food was at a Michelin level, we love it, excellent place for a romantic dinner or business meet, 5 stars all around, the sunset view spectacular, strongly recommend read more

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The service is top notch. The food is phenominal.. The food is all homemade. I will say the food is pricey and the portions are small but very good... don't come here if you have a big appetite read more

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The BEST pasta EVER !!!!!!! My friends mom who grew up on homemade pasta says this is the freshest & best homemade pasta she's ever had. Our service is always great & the food is always even better than we can remember. Staples that we always order are the pepperoni pizza, lasagna & mad giant shrimp. Cenacola's pizza crust is pretty thin & crispy on the bottom, but still has a soft and semi doughy crust -basically neapolitan style. No words can describe how fresh and perfectly al dente the pasta is, you mush go try it for yourself to understand. Our Mad Giant Shrimp is always yummy too. Very fresh & the potatoes that come with it are sooo crispy and seasoned generously. Cenacola is pretty on the inside, but also has outdoor seating near the water. It's a quiet and intimate place that you must go to if you are in Cancun!!!! read more

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The best Italian in all of Mexico The greatest service of all. Unbelievable presentations. Wonderful wine selections Juan is the best head waiter along with his colleagues. read more

Handmade pasta was all we needed to read! You can see them making it too! The place is perfect for sunset. Get seating outside right on the water and it's perfect for an evening sunset over the water date. The waiters are very attentive as well. The food was perfection from the bread they served in advance of our meal to our pastas! We ordered the lasagna which came highly recommended and was a very smooth and creamy texture. Very tasty! However, my pasta the Diabla Penne was cooked to perfection with just the right amount of spice and al dente bite to it and they mix it in a wheel of cheese before serving it to you which is a fun presentation before enjoying a delightful treat! We had just the right amount of food and left happy campers. I hear their pizzas are amazing too, but that will be for next time. Until next time. read more

Cenacolo - Diabla penne - Italian Near Me - Cancún, ROO

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3 stars for the ambience and service. Food was unremarkable, had small portions, and too expensive

Juan Carlos was our waiter. Truly an amazing experience. The ambience is perfect for romantic date or just to celebrate any special occasion. Not noisy whatsoever. The wine, my wife's Manhattan was perfect. I had the black spaghetti entrée which was filled with plenty of seafood and you probably couldn't get it anywhere else, but Spain. My wife's dinner included several cheeses and spaghetti and she said was the best meal ever. We finished off with a chocolate soufflé and shared a Mexican coffee. Truly outstanding. We will be back. Thank you Juan Carlos! read more

Arrived Val night dinner is always a challenge. We are tired, hungry, and short on patience. We made a reservation at CAO next store but we're firmly turned away at door (with a reservation?). We got into this lovely Italian gem with no reservation and were glad to be refused at CAO by dinners end. Flawless service from Ramón and Ricardo and beautiful lighting and music put us at ease instantly. Beautiful cocktails and warm amazing bread prepared in the brick oven in front of us took the edge off our weariness. Followed by the BEST risotto I've eaten outside of Italy and fresh fettuccine with bolognese was a bowl of comfort for my husband. English not a problem. Outdoors has a beautiful patio but we really enjoyed the air conditioning inside. Too full for dessert but boy did they look tempting. With a nice tip it was $120 usd all in. Great choice in Puerto Cancún area. read more

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This is a super elegant and classy restaurant located in a convenient shopping mall complex. I think the best thing about the restaurant is the upscale ambiance and the service, but the food is quite good as well. We ordered one of the made at the table pastas and that was a pretty fun experience to watch them mix the cheeses on top of the pasta table-side. The pasta was cooked perfectly al-dente so if you like a thicker, more chewy texture to your pasta you will enjoy the food here. Great night-time view of the Marina as well! read more

The food and service here Is absolutely amazing. I have eaten at places, but ended up going to Cenacolo twice during my five night stay in Cancun. Definitely worth eating at! read more

Food, service, ambiance. This place deserves the 5 stars. Delicious and amazing service. The cannelloni was absolutely amazing. You need to get the chocolate soufflé for dessert. read more

Best Carbonara for have ever had! Felt like I was in Italy and then of course there was there sliced white onions with habanero and ricotta starter that they give you complementary that I can't stop thinking about since we left there. What a delightful surprise highly recommend. read more

Cenacolo was a pleasant surprise. We were a little unsure about Italian food in Mexico but turned out to be some of the best Italian! Right on the bay with such a beautiful view. Wonderful place for a date night - ambiance is perfect. We ordered 3 dishes which were all brought out one at a time. I really enjoyed this because you really got to taste each separate dish and truly immerse in that dish. First was one of their classics green hat ravioli. Super fresh, light, simple. Second, was their diabla penne. The chilies gave a nice little kick to the flavor, it was creamy, and so delicious! The sauce was perfect. Third, was the classic margarita with truffle. The pizza was super delicious, cheesy and thin crust. We loved the food and the service was superb throughout the whole evening. Waiter Jorge and Leonel were terrific. We called in advanced for a reservation and they had asked if we were celebrating anything, which we were, our anniversary so at the end they brought out a nice panna cotta with happy anniversary written on it. Truly made our night very special. Highly recommend Cenacolo! read more

Cenacolo - Green hats ravioli - Italian Near Me - Cancún, ROO

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Food- 10/10 we always come back here because the food is so great ! Traditional Italian food in Mexico !! Yes Italian food in Mexico. Some of the best we had compared to in the states. After staying in a all inclusive resort you get tired of the food for a while. I highly recommend this restaurant if your in the area and want to try something new. We got here by taxi in the hotel zone and it was about $20. We'll worth the ride. Staff very attentive. Pros- great service , great ambiance ,great location inside shopping mall Cons-pricey read more

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It was ok. My friend order the divorce bowl and said it was ok but definitely wouldn't order it again. I ordered the Sicilian de Salmon & feta. It was ok. The cream sauce was a little sweet. Not something I would order again. The martini was really good. read more

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Some of the worst italian food I've ever had. Extremely bland, small portions, and very overpriced. Service was good however.

This is by far my favorite restaurant ever. Patricia was very knowledgeable about the menu and made some excellent recommendations. Their beef carpaccio is to die for. Their green hats, and pesto gnocchi was SO GOOD. They brought my daughter a sparkler and special dessert for her birthday. Such a gorgeous venue, with outside seating, but we chose to sit inside this time. They upgraded their menus and glassware since we were here last and it was a nice elegant touch. This place I elevated without being pretentious. Can't wait to come back to Cancun just to eat here!!! read more

Cenacolo is a pretentious entertainment venue, not a restaurant. It's glitzy and has a great view of the harbor, but don't go there expecting outstanding Italian food. My "seafood" pasta dish contained a garnish of maybe 1 ounce of tiny calamari tentacles and scraps of shrimp pieces tossed on top of a tasteless, cool dry pasta which may have been homemade but that hardly mattered. Other things I (a chef) noted: Wines are preposterously priced but stored on open shelves, neck up so the corks are subject to drying out at room temp. Would I risk $200 or $300 for a bottle? No way. They do a "tableside" prep of rigatoni in red sauce, which is only notable because the vessel they mix it up in is a hollowed-out Parmesan wheel about 18 inches in diameter. Ooohs and Ahhhs ensued! But my (food safety) question is, how do they clean these serving vessels between servings and overnight? I cannot think of a way that this could be done in a hygienic way without affecting the next serving with chemical residues. I guess Cancun doesn't do a lot of food safety inspections. It's said in the industry that Italian food is the easiest money-maker. Cenacolo has added Vegas-y show and glitz to ratchet up the revenue. If that's your thing, go for it. This was the most expensive dinner we had during our ten-day stay but the lowest quality. read more

Amazing place. It was highly recommended by a local friend. The food was phenomenal. The staff was friendly and helpful. As soon as you walk in, everyone was friendly and helpful. The fresh pasta is a must match with a nice wine list. Reasonably priced and good portions as well. Bellissimo!! read more

WOW!! What a great meal. We had dinner here last night and I was a bit apprehensive to find good Italian food in Mexico--having grown up in the SF Bay Area and frequented many Italian restaurants in the North Beach area of San Francisco- this restaurant could easily compete with the best of the best in SF!! Great ambiance, attentive service, excellent food! My husband started out with the Valentina Salad and it was huge and such a beautiful presentation. I don't eat Salad but it was served partly in a parmesan basket which I tasted and that was excellent. He then had the Red Marinara Black Guitar Spaghetti & enjoyed it thoroughly. The fish was super fresh and pasta delicious. I had the Don Tino Ravioli and they were excellent, creamy cheeses stuffed into the raviolis with a yummy sausage marinara sauce. We really didn't have room for dessert but the dinner was soooooo good that we felt we had to give dessert a try. I had the Chocolate Drop which was a mousse cake filled with mascarpone and topped with chocolate sauce and he had the Flan. Both were excellent and so yummy. Mexican Coffee and Cappucino were also fantastic. Really no complaints- everything was amazing. Our servers were Juan & Jhanathan and they were so attentive!! I will definitely recommend this place to friends and clients. Our dinner for 2 that also included 2 cocktails and 2 glasses of wine with extra gratuity (above what they suggest) was $174 USD and worth every penny. In SF a meal like this would easily be over $200 USD, read more

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Delicious house made pastas. I tried the beetroot tortellini and loved every bite. My husband had the classic ravioli and enjoyed his as well. Dessert was excellent. My husband had the flan and I enjoyed the ice cream with Luxardo cherries. So good! read more

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Service is beyond slow. We love a relaxed dinner but this was ridiculous. The two top table situation is awful. In a total runway. No one wanted to sit there. We watched all night as ppl said no to those seats. They need to rearrange the tables. My truffle pasta was bland. The truffle had zero flavor. We have been here many times. Always the same. I won't be back. read more

This is another location of a famous Italian restaurant in CUN. They are famous because of their hand-made pasta. They are located on a very nice marina mall with tons of chick stores. The place looks and feels up-scale, with a wood-fire oven and the chefs making the pasta on the window. They have a nice patio overlooking the marina, so you can dine "al fresco". The staff is super nice and accommodating. The service despite being a little slow, overall is good. The table service is a little disappointing with just a few slices of flat bread, what seems to be cottage cheese and pickled onions. No butter. The salad was huge, but unseasoned (we had to asked for salt) and a little dry (we asked for more dressing). The three pasta dishes we order were good. However I would have preferred more bolognese sauce, a little more butter sauce and more spice in my "diabla" sauce. The price is higher than expected, considering the quality. I guess they charge you for the venue and the experience. You can definitely have better Italian food somewhere else and not so expensive. But we had a very pleasant evening watching the boats and the people, so no regrets here. Although I don't know if I would come back before trying something else first. read more

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Service was great and food was delicious! The ambiance was also very romantic. My wife and I enjoyed the night. read more

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Upon walking in expectations were set high as we were asked if our table had allergies. Indeed someone did and the experience went downhill from there. As we observed the beautiful surroundings a table sat down 10-15 minutes after us and their table was set with bread and serving plates before we had even gotten simple our waters. They were clearly known by the manager but it was it was only 4 people and we had 3. They had 3-4 servers at their table during meal change, we had 2 guys maybe together to assist our table upon food delivery. We finally got our bread for the table with sesame seeds which was one of our allergies and received no serving plates. We got 2 water glasses for 3 people who asked for water. It was honestly just the simplest mistakes were all checked off. We noticed excellent service yet again at the table next to us who changed their plates and cutlery during meals and was hoping the food was going to be fantastic to change our moods from observation. We ordered the stuffed shrimp calamari (which had balsamic vinaigrette) and Parmesan salad both were very good the rack of lamb was okay, green hat pasta was simple and bolognese lasagna was very salty. We wouldn't order any of the dishes again and probably wouldn't recommend me. We were referred to this place by a local and was staying at the hotel next door. Very disappointed. read more

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My husband and I loved our experience dining here! We chose to sit at the bar, and the lovely bartenders (Nia and Ale) were outstanding. The food exceeded our expectations, and the ambiance was exactly what we were hoping - elegant and sexy. We will definitely return upon our next visit to Cancun read more

So GOOD! Came here to celebrate my anniversary with my husband and it didn't disappoint! He got the linguine bolognese and I got the spaghetti made in the cheese bowl. We also got the mana cotta mango one for dessert. Our server was so knowledgeable of the menu and everything. Such a good experience read more

Cenacolo - Spaghetti from the cheese bowl - Italian Near Me - Cancún, ROO