Mosquito Blue: Inside a sleek boutique hotel in the heart of La Quinta’s pedestrian strip, this is the place everyone wants to be seen at. Wood fired pizzas, true Italian style – topped with gourmet ingredients like shrimp and pesto are the specialty, though the contemporary menu serves a little bit of everything from Thai to Mediterranean to Mexican. Indigo Beach Club:Playa’s Italian community is the second largest in Mexico after Mexico City – a population of some 10,000 people. Ceviche, stuffed crab, and the best shrimp tacos I have ever eaten. Marisquería: Inside theHotel Basico – from Mexico City’s excellent Habita group – Marisqueria serves coastal Mexican street food right from a replica mobile food cart on the second level of their building on Quinta Avenida. The restaurant is a little bit gimmicky (there’s a flaming coffee), though the current chef lived in a Mayan village and studied their recipes for a total of 5 years and is helping the restaurant set up support programs where they’ll buy their produce direct from the villages in the Yucatan. Yaxche: A longtime favorite in Playa though they recently moved locations, Yaxche’s specialty is rescuing Mayan recipes and giving them a contemporary facelift. To some extent that’s true, but there is also some excellent street food, regional restaurants not aimed at tourists, and a growing group of internationally trained chefs that are utilizing the products of the Yucatan. Most assume that, like Cancun, it’s filled with American chain restaurants and overpriced resort food. The Riviera Maya on the Caribbean coast of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula is more traditionally thought of as dead space for the adventurous foodie.
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