This is Progreso's BEST kept secret... From a Gringa's point of view...!
I NEVER would have known about it if a Mexican friend hadn't told me
about it!!
It's pretty easy to miss if you're walking down calle 31, as the stairs going
up to the restaurant are sort of hiding, and easily passed by if you're not looking
for them...
Entering the restaurant, I was a little non-plussed and NOT very impressed, but,
I soldiered on, bolstered by the amount of people present, and by my friend's
positive review and boastings...
He was RIGHT!
The food was delicious, fresh, and delivered hot to the table...
Cold 'cervesas' for me and a cold Coca lite for my 'esposo', started our meal,
as we perused the selections on the menu. We started off with a sopa de marisco
(seafood soup) for hubby that he ABSOLUTELY loved, and a cocktail de mariscos
mixto (fish, shrimp, pulpo / octopus, and caracol / sea snails) in a typical Yucatecan
seafood sauce ( a nice / pleasant change from the spicy seafood sauce that we are accustomed
to here in Canada and the USA).
For our main meal I had the fillete de pescado which is accompanied by rice, and vegetables,
(or 'papas a la Frances' - French fries, IF you ask for them instead of the rice and veggies!)
and hubby had the YUM IXPU special dish a fillet of fish (mero), filled with assorted seafood -
shrimp, fish and pulpo) battered and fried, with a cream sauce poured over it!
Hubby declared it as "sinfully good".... :-)
We "FORCED" ourselves to have dessert... Peaches and cream with an ounces of some sort of cream liquor poured over it... Mmmmmm! wonderful....
Service - 10+
Prices 10+
Atmosphere 10+
*** it's not the most attractive place, or somewhere to write home to mother about,
BUT the FOOD, and SERVICE WILL KEEP YOU COMING BACK!!
**** TIP / HINT GET THERE BEFORE 12 noon....
We arrived at 11:45 am. and by 12:30 it was PACKED with a lineup down the stairs when we left an hour later!!!
They ARE CLOSED on Mondays, and start to close up late in the afternoon.... read more