Playa Lancheros "La casa del Tikinxic" — Restaurant in Isla Mujeres

you don’t get this restaurant like this right on beach everyday.. Awesome lunch at amazing location...

we have read reviews about tikinxic fish and how great it was in taste and not to add an awesome view of the beach with pier. I guess Playa Lancheros is the place name as we had lunch in La Casa del TikinXik restaurant. but every review goes by Playa Lancheros so doing the same :P

we got the beachside table, it was bit empty, I guess every restaurant along the shore, offers the same view and same tikin xic fish. let me tell you before if you want to order which you should, order ll take 1 hr at least as they ll start cooking after the order. in this restaurant, you can see kitchen (especially for tikin xic fish) nearby parking area.

also, they don’t serve you nachos free like other Mexican restaurant. they charged us 80 pesos for this when we asked why did not we get nachos. our fish came, it was really good, but it was more than enough for 2 people. 3-4 folks can have whole fish. The fish order goes by per KG. and guesses what it was not expensive. 300 pesos for 1 kg Tikinxic Trad coro, and some other fish 300+ pesos. tikin xic is the preparation, not fish name.

Tikin Xic, pronounced "teekeen sheek" in Yucatec Mayan and meaning "dry fish", is a fish dish prepared in the Meso-American style. The fish is prepared whole then marinated with adobo de Achiote and sour oranges then wrapped in a banana leaf and cooked in an earth oven beneath a wood fire

in the side dish, rice-lettuce was there with beans and tortillas. the green sauce which was nothing but green chili sauce. mind it, it’s very hot but good in taste ;) Waiter seems to very busy. Apart from fish, we ordered Mango Margarita, SOL beer, salsa Mexican.

all Mexican restaurant serves their main items with tortillas (bucket of small tortillas) and sauce (green-salsa). you make taco and eat. it's the Mexican thing. Also, they don't serve water in the restaurant. I have read in blogs that one should be very careful with drinking water, but why restaurants don't serve drinking water, not sure. They had added gratuity in the bill. upon asking, you can change the % of tip. 20% is by default added. I have asked for the fresh bill and added 10% to it.

one yacht came and all people got off and headed to another restaurant, seems they were under a part of some tour package. This Restaurant had swings and I enjoyed it while waiting for fish, you can also have some fun in the water. water was clear and the reef was not there. we walked on the beach with the drink, took photos, enjoyed swings. What an unforgettable experience with the awesome amazing view. ( See my pictures).

Definitely...

Not recommended *PLEASE READ *

The overall service is okay. Me and my friend (two female) ordered the seafood platter(not sure what it’s called on the menu for $1600 and we are expecting an awesome dish. After we order the waiter come told us there is no lobster and if we are willing to change to fish or shrimp we said no then he come back later said they found lobster in stock. The dish came way faster than what we expected (according to google review 40 mins for grills) and we didn’t think much about it. But we are completely SHOCKED. See the picture of my thumb and the so-called lobster(some shrimp I ate are bigger than it) and no clam even said in the menu. The octopus is VERY stale, mushy and soggy. All food except squid is VERY salty and I’m not kidding that we have flies chasing for our dish so persistently that we have to wave our hand the WHOLE TIME to eat our food before the flies land on it first. The food itself was just bad, there is nothing I can say just see the picture. Also the menu mentioned clam but there is no clam in the dish. We called the waiter and he explained that they have no clam to it’s switched other seafood (WITHOUT ASKING US AT ALL). But we take that explanation and tried to eat our food fast as the flies are like paparazzis. The food taste pretty bad and salty but we beared with it. And as we were eating we saw this … a fly crawling out of our shrimp and would not fly away even if I poke the shrimp and shake it. We just watched that thing to crawl out of our dish and felt absolutely disgusted. We called the waiter and he asked us what do we wanna do. I say I don’t know we just hope we don’t get sick. He also told us if we said we’ll not be paying for that dish he’ll have to pay it himself. In the end we agreed to a 20% discount and paid 1280 pesos. We walked to Marbella after and got an amazing meal and experience and the bill came to be $1060 for us including dessert. Do your self a favour and go to...

My husband and I went here after a friend recommended it. You can't beat this place. It was the best thing we did in Isla Mujeres. We had a table on the beach with our feet in the sand, right next to the water and in the shade. Jorge was our waiter and he was wonderful, attentive and friendly. The beer was cold and the margaritas were fantastic (not too tart like here in the states). We ordered the dish that this restaurant is most famous for- Estilo Tikinxic Traditional. When we went (9/30/19), the fish they had was Coronado (Amberjack). It was huge, took about 20-30 minutes to come out, and we didn't even finish it. The guacamole was fresh and some of the best I've ever had and the salsa was very spicy. I could have stayed there all day. With guacamole, fish, two margaritas and a bucket of beer (5), we walked out of there for around $36. So affordable. Eat here. You...