Antojarte — Restaurant in Cancún

4.5 sounds right to us. We travel from New York and we always ask our uber driver what their favorite local food is, so, we found this as the closest restaurant with one $ sign that has mole.

Pros: clean (front side of a plaza), professional staff, nice American music lol, best tortilla chips and salsa while waiting (out of 4 restaurants we have eated at on this trip), good price, with a sports bar, convenient for walking/ bus route from centro Cancun locations (use Moovit app to figure out bus routes which is usually about 10-15 pesos per person per trip).

Cons: not much, other than we do not really like the mole (chocolate flavor too strong, too much bean) but it could be either we did not know how to eat it right, or we just don’t like sweet sauce. The flan’s texture is not smooth but the taste is fine, large portion. One son did not like horchata (milk drink with sugar, cinnamon powder) but the other one likes it a lot. The burritos are good but we are not sure having French fries fillings is an American (US) thing or authentic Mexican thing.

Overall, good and affordable local food without getting to the busy Avenida Tulum, but I still want something even more local (couple-owned, server not speaking English, setting more like...

I Strongly reccoment this location for food and mexican flavor, you can always order online trought #Rappi to get a taste of it.

If you order Chilaquiles Mayas, you will get purple onion to make it more tasty. Look at the pictures for the example, with and/or withouth purple onion.

In the case of the pancita and Pozole, there are always included add ons to get the most of it. Look at the pictures for the example.

Thanks for the staff, and crew members, I had a great time taking the pictures to raise their...

Antojarte es un vistoso lugar para comer.

Llaman la atención la decoración y la imagen del lugar. Y la realidad es que al entrar al espacio, se respira un aire entre mexicano tradicional (los colores recuerdan un poco a Oaxaca y Jalisco), con las pequeñas mesas de madera y el acabado en los muros imitando talavera. Muy bonito interiorismo.

La comida es medianamente buena. He probado varias cosas del menú y, si bien se presta para que un turista pruebe la cocina mexicana, ya que sus modos de preparación son bastante seculares, también tienen un platillo por el que vale la pena la visita y eso es:

¡Chilaquiles Mayas! Un verdadero manjar de salsa, preparado con chile de árbol 🌶, chile habanero, manteca de cerdo y queso gratinado con crema encima. Solo por este platillo vale la pena visitar este lugar. Por los demás mejor no molestarse si buscamos cocina mexicana de calidad.

La atención a cliente es buena por parte de la hostess o gerente, pero a los meseros les falta un poco más de entrenamiento (supongo que eran nuevos en su trabajo los que me atendieron hoy).

Le pondría, en realidad, 3.5 estrellas, pero solo puedo calificarlos...