Our first Yucatan food experience after reaching Mexico . Rented a car reached Valladolid hungry…read moreand excited !Found this place is located right near city center so very cheerful area . Wife being a vegetarian, we were very skeptical about our first meal in mexico . We tried papadzules , sopas , tlacoyos, which came with 3 dips which were out of the world ! So much flavor experience in very bite. One seemed eggplant , one seemed pumpkin and third we just could tell ! Got a huge lemonade jug to go along ! Amazing and happy stomach start to our Yucatan tour !

Tourist cafe with okay food. Very pretty ambiance. Great…read moreservice okay Good space between others at their tables so would've been perfect during Covid really bland food though. Okay

This place was amazing…read more There was bo host on arrival and someone tried to bypass me from the other entrance and take the only seat left in the garden which i was not thrilled by but the waiter made it right. The food took a long time and they were out of some items but the taste was fantastic. I had the seeds hamburger. Everything vegan but they can give you real cheese if you opt in - which i did. Lots of waters with lemon and ginger and smoothies: Im coming back for breakfast ! Plus.. its on the cutest street. Oh and they had a live musician.

Super place on "street of the friars." Strongly into vegetarian/vegan, which we are not, but this…read moreplus Yerba Buena, beginning to make me think a change. The Gordita with roasted mushrooms was one of the top dishes I ate in Valladolid. Enjoyed the quiet garden. A ceramics shop is attached.

This place was a little hidden gem. The tacos didn't look like much, but they were so good we went…read moreback for seconds. Highly recommended. Price was very cheap.

Some of the tastiest cochinita pibil I've had! Very flavorful and simple food. We got two polcanes,…read moretwo tacos, a torta, and two drinks for 75 pesos! Totally worth it. For those going through town on the way to or from Chichen Itza, it is very close to the ADO bus station. I would highly recommend.

This place is a gem. The staff was really helpful and came quickly…read more My friend got a glass of wine and I got an Aqua fresco that was absolutely delicious. We ordered the lobster bisc to start and that was just creamy and yummy with a nice amount of spice.. It's the same sauce they put over the xKitic chicken. I ordered the esbeche oriental and she got the beef pibil. We were happy with their our food & the appetizer was nice surprise. I loved the dark salsa. The other was the local pumpkin seeds smashed up. Very tasty. She got the house red wine which was served cold. That's the first I've ever seen red wine cold The star of the show where is the location in the back it had a great atmosphere and lots of trees and open air really inviting and lit up well.

Prime location sharing the wall with the most visited and most photo op church in central…read moreValladolid. Very nice interior, deco, tables, settings, AC, cool music, you can always come but you cannot leave until you satisfied your hungry stomach . Service is attentive and slow as the 'hotel California ' music streaming in the background. We started with the empanadas Chaya, then stuffed cheese, longaniza de Valladolid to stay with Yucatan side. Then garlic plancha octopus and lobster pasta to be on the safe side. Empanadas and stuff cheese is below average. Octopus is really good, balanced with grilled vegetables. Lobster is small but good. Pasta sauce is not on par. Sausage is very good, the grilled onion is exceptional. For the drink, tamarind is below Mexican average standard. Take one star off.

I grabbed some carne asada tacos and they were really great and so was our waiter! Extremely cheap…read moreas well! highly recommend

Great tacqueria on busy Calle 39. We found it by accident when looking for Yerba Buena del Sisal…read morethat was not at the listed address. This was on the corner. The vendor was super friendly & I was able to order my special request of veggie tacos with my broken Spanish. The other worker was out back grilling up the meat for my husbands tacos. After you get your taco you add your own toppings including choices of beans, rice, avocado, salsa, lettuce, cucumber. My taco was made up of only the toppings but still delicious! They have several natural juices to choose from as well. I got the mandarin which I liked. We got 6 tacos, a juice & cola for 70 pesos which is $5.00 US. Simply amazing!

Loncheria El Amigo Casiano - Cheap and Delicious Authentic Mexican and Yucatecan Dishes!…read more I visited Loncheria El Amigo Casiano once a day during my most recent travels to Valladolid (November 15-18) and it quickly became one of my favourite places to eat! It is located inside the El Bazar Municipal open-air food court and plaza situated on the north side of Valladolid's central square (corner of Calle 39 and 40), in the far left hand corner from the entrance on Calle 39. They serve authentic, tasty and cheap Mexican dishes and traditional Yucatecan dishes, including things like huevos rancheros, poc chuc, tacos, cochinita pibil, among many other foods. This restaurant is very casual. You order and pay at the counter, wait for your number to be called and then pick up your food from the counter, similar to the process of ordering fast food in Canada. There are no serving staff. They are only open for lunch and every time I came here, the place was packed with people! It was definitely a popular favourite for the locals. The menu is displayed in Spanish only and the staff only speak Spanish. It was a fun challenge to practice my Spanish conversation skills! Some of my favourite things to order included the huevos rancheros, tacos, panuchos, and sopes. I also really enjoyed the refreshing aguas frescas (beverage with fresh fruit, water and sugar) and they came in a large variety of flavours. My favourites were the horchata (rice-based milky drink with cinnamon and vanilla), Jamaica (made from hibiscus flowers), sandia (watermelon), fresa (strawberry) and Chaya (a spinach-like plant that is native to Mexico). The food was excellent at this place and I highly recommend this eatery to anyone staying in Valladolid. I cannot wait to return and try many more of their tasty dishes!

This is like your local food court inside a shopping mall. There are various kinds of authentic…read morestreet foods in this Bazar, so you can't get more local than this. Just browse around and see what types of foods you're interested in. The downsides are that tables are first-come, first-serve. Meaning if you can't find a table after ordering your food, you're eating standing up. Lastly, you have to pay to use the bathroom. There is a gate that blocks the entrance to the bathrooms and you have to pay to enter.

We heard about this place from a travel blog and though it might not look like much, the tacos from…read morethis simple street cart are some of the best I've ever had. This place is definitely worth hunting down.

The tacos are the best in town. The service was fast and attentive. The are street tacos so…read morethere's no tables. They mainly have pork items on the menu but very good. I am close to Los Angeles so I get to eat better tacos than theirs but they are overall good. Enjoy!

This restaurant is in a large hotel, and fills up quickly on weekends, when the tour busses from…read moreCancun roll into Valladolid, after their trip to ChichenItza. El Meson is clearly a tourist destination: literally every diner I saw during my meal was clearly not a Yucutan native. However, if you are looking for familiar food in a restaurant with helpful staff, and you are exhausted from your day trip, then you won't go wrong with El Meson del Marques. We started our meal with a couple of the delicious Mexican margaritas (not too sweet, and just as I like them!) accompanied with some tortilla chips and Sikil P'ak, a delicious Yucatan appetizer dip of crushed pumpkin seed, roast tomato, various herbs (often chive; I like cilantro, which El Meson included), all crushed in a mortar and pestle to produce a roasty, slightly chunky dip that is delicious with the ubiquitous tortilla chips. When it came time to order the main course, my husband, who didn't want any more Yucatan cuisine tonight, ordered the salmon. The helpful waiter asked him how he would like this done, and he looked at me in bewilderment, never having to answer such a question about fish. "I'd like it cooked," he said. I immediately had visions of overcooked salmon, and quickly added, "Medium, not overcooked.". He was pleased with the finished product, cooked but not dry! I took a risk and ordered a specialty, the "stuffed cheese". The waiter looked at me hesitantly, and then quickly filled me in that this dish is a bean stew, with a cheese rind. Having done some research into Yucatan cuisine, I knew that incorporating the rinds of Edam cheese into stew is a very traditional approach. The stew arrived, with a big thick cheese rind. I probably only ate half of it, not because I didn't like it, but because the helping was huge! It looked like an innocuous bowl of soup, but just half of that bowl ate like a full meal. Wow. This is a somewhat pricey (by local standards) but good, reliable, very touristy restaurant which will offer you familiar Canadian or American dishes as well as some genuine Yucatan specialties. Service is as polished as it gets, in a dining room with spectacular decor and a wide ranging menu with plenty of choices.

This restaurant is inside of a hotel atrium. Pretty decent menu, however the service is very slow…read morebased on my standards. This is a tourist stop, with busses stopping right across the street. Of course, while you wait to have your order taken or your food to come out, the drinks are flowing. No problem with that service. When I got my food, it was pretty good, but a little expensive. I enjoyed the tortilla chips and salsa. The house made guacamole was delicious, though.

One of our best meals while visiting Valladoid. Great service and the garden was lovely. The…read moregrilled flank steak in the charred tortilla aguachile sauce was amazing. So was the chicken breast in the spicy chili sauce.

This was a top recommendation from a blog post by travellemming. I would not share that sentiment,…read morebut the manager, Manuel, was super helpful and charming. The kibis shrimp appetizer was good. Homemade pasta above par. Well decorated interior. A DJ plays some nights; disco/techo music piped in while we were there. Not our scene. I think it's more suitable for a different demographic.

Definitely a tourist spot as it sits on the main park/square; but the service was great and the…read morefood was delicious. I ordered the pastor burrito and my girlfriend ordered the chicken flautas. The burrito was packed with flavorful fillings: meat, peppers, onions and seasoned well. I also had a Chaya and pineapple juice (Chaya is a local vegetable and is similar to spinach) very refreshing on a hot summer day. Almost everything here is open air (no air conditioning) they have fans but it was still hot.

This was where we went before our Chichen Itza tour! This place was so good and we had a lot of…read morefood! We had SOPA de Lima, gorditas, fajitas, and more!