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.
