This was my favorite cafe during my stay here, with great food, great service, and great…read moreatmosphere. Located in the courtyard of the Casa de las Artes, the beautiful outdoor seating and great food attract a nice crowd throughout the day, and the proprietor is visible and involved--making his dedication to delicious food and a great experience obvious. Cafes are VERY common in this area, and you will find that there is a 'typical' Mexican cafe menu: coffee drinks, juices, smoothies, sodas, breakfast, salads, and sandwiches. Cafe Haus isn't deviating from the classics, like the hipster-esque Besame Mucho and Mate Bistro, or staying tried and true, like Restaurant Plaza, but instead the menu has all the staples with a modern flair. Take elevated technique and attention to detail and you've got Cafe Haus. My favorite Mexican brunch-type-food is called a 'mollete', which is toasted bread smeared with beans and topped with cheese--it's very, very simple, so how is it you can really make them stand out amongst others? ask the owner because that dude's got the answer. Huevos Rancheros are everywhere. Everywhere. It's a fried egg with a savory tomato and onion sauce on top; but the sauce here was awesome--complex but balanced. The same could be said of the chilaquiles, which were not overly sour or acrid, as they can sometimes be; both those dishes were the best of their kind that I had. The sandwiches here were also my favorite, specifically the skirt steak sandwich. https://youtu.be/fqCrJc2b9kw Goddam that sandwich. The meat is flavorful, cured and cooked; I thought it would be tough, but it was tender and juicy, and it's paired with a nice, soft, rich, fatty bread. The best thing I ate (in a restaurant) during my vacation. The drinks were also very good, especially the sodas. The coffee drinks, while not bad, aren't great, but the truth is we went elsewhere for coffee before/after coming here. The flavored lattes and cappuccinos tasted really good, but I prefer unflavored, so I stuck to the sodas, specifically the Italian Melon, which was freaking awesome. But in general, here too, the ubiquitous soda flavors were better than other places. I think the best way I can sum up the general attitude towards foods here is by mentioning the orange juice. When a few of us ordered orange juice, the owner informed us that (because of the season) the oranges weren't very sweet anymore, so he was adding a natural sweetener "to balance the flavor". That's it right there. None of us (two of which are residents of this city) had ever heard of someone sweetening fresh juice, but his reasoning made sense to us and the juice ended up being great--it was even clear that the juice had benefited from it. With delicious, thoughtfully made food, great drinks, and a relaxing and beautiful atmosphere, it's definitely a place to check out if you're in the area.

Excelente el servicio que ofrecen, la atención es muy buena y la comida muy rica…read more El ambiente es muy tranquilo y familiar o incluso muy romántico.

I think is overrated this place the food is just okay doesn't have flavor and take forever to get…read morethe food

Located in the Jardin Constitucion, the Plaza Restaurant serves your typical Mexican staples,…read moreranging from breakfast to dinner, plus snacks (antojitos), and drinks--juices, shakes, and coffee drinks. The food is the solid, no-frills kind of fare that you're going to find everywhere, but done here really well, and pretty much the exact same thing can be said of the service. It's a fairly large space with plenty of seating--or a service counter if you'd prefer--with not much more in terms of decoration and ambiance than the fact that it is on the 'first floor', or the second floor as we know it, overlooking the plaza if you grab a seat by the windows. I had the opportunity to try several different items on the menu, and everything I tried was good, but, as you'll find in Mexico, restaurants--especially when it comes to dinner items--are usually known for one or two dishes that they prepare really well, and that can't really be said about this restaurant. HOWEVER, most other restaurants do a couple of things really well, and the rest of their offerings are either so-so or subpar, which is the key difference in this restaurant, where you really can't order a bad meal. That alone is something I think should be appreciated. The best of what I tried, by which I mean it stacks up really well against any restaurant, were the fruit cocktail and the 'molletes', which is a dish listed in my profile as my last meal on earth. A mollete is a piece of bread--grilled or toasted--topped with refried beans and cheese. That's it. And because it's so simple it's very easy to make a bad one. The molletes here used good bread, good cheese, and really good, flavorful beans, in good proportion. The fruit cocktail, though, was freaking awesome, and one of the reasons I have to give this place five stars rather than four. A large amount of sweet, ripe strawberries, pineapple, cantaloupe, and guava, are cut up and served in a large margarita glass swimming in its own juice. I can't even describe the visceral, physical reaction I get when eating good fruit, which is why I usually avoid eating it in public; no one needs to see that. The other reason I love this place, and the one food or drink I will miss most, is the cappuccino, which is even listed in the menu as their signature drink. Holy crap that cappuccino. It is definitely not your standard cappuccino, but some take on it that makes it fundamentally different. It's thick and yet still light and foamy, and made slightly sweetened. Even if everything else they made sucked, and the cappuccino was served in a chipped glass with lipstick on the side of it, I'd still have to rate this place five stars.

From the owner: Frescura en los productos, higiene y sabor!read more

Located in the Plazoleta Miguel Hidalgo, this has definitely been one of my favorite…read morecafe/restaurants during my stay in Salamanca. Clean and comfortable, it's mostly a breakfast and brunch type place; and although they are open in the evenings, they do not have a dinner menu. Offering cafe staples--cappuccinos, espressos, lattes, etc.--which are all good, they also offer shakes and Italian sodas with unique flavors like lychee, which I have not seen in other place. With a large sign in front stating that they make food to order using fresh, high-quality ingredients, they also encourage you to let them know of your food preferences or any restrictions you might have--a very nice touch! I had a croissant sandwich that normally comes with meat, fresh veggies, and cheese, but I asked them to hold the meat....and they did! It may not sound like a big deal, but after a couple of errors at other places I'd like to give them credit for that. The croissant was definitely the best and most buttery that I've had here, and they added a nice tangy dressing that really rounded the whole thing out. Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to try any of their cakes or pastries, but I did have the Fresas Marqués, which used fresh, sweet strawberries, that good, complex, Mexican chocolate, and whipped cream--simple but VERY delicious. The drinks were very good--especially the Cafe Americano, which was the best I've had here--standing out in a place where cafes seem to be all over the place. The interior and the ambiance it provides were also very nice, making it one of those places you just want to sit and enjoy your food and drinks over a long period of time. The biggest standout here, though, has been the service, which was the absolute best, friendliest, and professional I've had during my stay here, and I came several times. I would highly, HIGHLY recommend this place!

The best place to have a taste coffee or smoothie with and amazing food, great environment, very…read morefriendly and polite staff, extremely clean and good prices Very happy to get the opportunity to visit this place

I really liked this cafe, I really did, and I came here several times, but I started going…read moreelsewhere toward the end because sometimes this place kind of frustrated me--they always seemed to be out of something. I understand that things happen every now and again, but it seemed to be a pattern here as opposed to a fluke. I still have to go with four stars though, even though three--or even two--would be fair, because when everything is just right, it's really an awesome place. It's along the corridors of Jardin Constitucion, my favorite 'jardin' in this city--with its gorgeous trees, its church bells, and its liveliness--and it has outdoor seating. One night there were older couples all dressed in white, dancing to different kinds of music (apparently this is done every Thursday), and another night a couple come out and play awesome instrumental versions of mainly Frank Sinatra songs not fifty feet away from our table. The drinks and the food are both really good, and the is service too, I just wished it could run a little more consistently; one day, I $#!t you not, they were out of bread. Bread--when sandwiches are a huge part of the menu. They make our favorite cup of coffee, so we had cup and went somewhere else to get a sandwich, which is what we had all really wanted. Like most cafes around here, they serve breakfast and lunch type food, but are generally open pretty late. The breakfast was good, but their panini sandwiches were REALLY good--using great bread and fresh ingredients, and were my favorite thing on the menu. The breakfast, again, was good, but was better elsewhere, except the crepes--which were not good at all, strange even. They reminded a little of rice wafers, and they were not very flavorful despite the filings; the French toast, on the other hand, was simple and really good--soft, chewy, and custardy all at the same time. The coffee drinks were also good overall, if not the best. They do make a really good cafe Americano, and it was my dad's favorite place to get a coffee; I, on the other hand, like mine a little stronger and preferred the one at Santa Maria Cafe y Galeria--this was my runner-up. My favorite cafe drink is the cappuccino, and this one was good but not great, being a little thinner than I like, but at least it had a good, pronounced coffee flavor. The service was good, friendly and polite, and there's definitely a Mexican-hipster (which I didn't know existed until I encountered it) vibe--playful menu with playful names, servers with piercings and beanies, and a respect for ingredients--but the experience was inconsistent. The ambiance cannot be beat, so it must be factored into the rating, and I did have a couple of really great experiences here, so I would still highly recommend this place. I actually will now look forward to coming here when I consider the prospect of visiting again, and that's GOT to say something right there.