Restaurante Sabor a mi — Restaurant in Chiapas

This restaurant is right on the main square. It is very busy. As others have mentioned, there is a lot of foot traffic and plenty of street sales people. We timed it, it wasn't an interruption every two minutes, but pretty close. I think it would have been worse had we sat on the outside patio, but we were inside.

The menu and selection was exciting. Way too many great choices for breakfast which was why we were there.

We ended up getting the tamales and the Nutella crepe.

First we ordered drinks. Black Americano and the cappuccino rammapopo. The cappuccino was beautiful to look at and was also a great drink. They gave us some cut up fruit gratis to start.

The tamales came in a set of two. One was chicken in a corn husk which was nice and hit the spot. The other in a banana leaf seemed like a breakfast chicken mole. Both were enjoyable. As I am not a tamal connoisseur, I won't expound in their ranking as far as how great they were.

Now my daughter who got the Nutella crepes went nuts over them. They came with chocolate cookies on top, like a twix bar but better for breakfast.

But as much as she liked her crepes , she loved the mole tamal and finished half of mine.

Staff was friendly and competent. Jose Martin, our waiter had a great sarcastic sense of humor that we just loved.

I tell you, I'm not a fan of places that seem too focused on tourists, but even though this place was on the square, I didn't get that feeling. In fact, I quite liked it and enjoyed the environment on the square. If I was staying longer I would love to come back as they has so many great looking things on the menu. I liked that the menu has tons of pictures which made choosing even more difficult.

If you like relaxing and people watching and great food, I would definitely include this on your list of restaurants.

Also from another review, it seems custom for waiters and tour operators to ask for a tip especially when filling out the credit card machine or to let diners or customers know a tip is not included. I was once a waiter (it's terrible but we called people who did not tip back then, Canadians, and from that review it is funny, the person was from Canada) and given the numbers coming to Mexico from places that don't tip customarily, I can't blame waiters for asking. Getting upset and punishing a person for doing what they always do only makes you look bad and waiters weary of others from your country. Do like my parents taught me and be a good traveler and respect...

The food here is mediocre at best. While I realize it is common for street vendors to approach diners in restaurants, this was over the top. On average there was a vendor at my table every two minutes. The staff do nothing to discourage this. Worst of all was when the waiter took my payment and loudly said “propina” in a questioning voice. I shook my head. I had every intention of leaving a tip, but that is my choice. A waiter asking to take a tip from my change is totally inappropriate. My change came back 30 pesos short. When the waiter appeared again I asked for the money to be returned, and he did. As far as I’m concerned helping yourself to customers change is nothing short of theft. I do not recommend...

The food was alright, the service attentive and quick, but the place was really cold. Worst part and reason for the 1 star rating are the prices, the place is already really expensive so we intended to give a custom tip as the bill stated it was very much possible to change the proposed service charge to a custom amount. When paying with a 500 peso bill they just didn't return the full amount but substracted the total amount AND the tip. We only would have given a little less, but being taken the choice of tipping as much as we like is unacceptable, especially when the bill explicitly stated that it is very much possible. Wouldn't recommend...