Bar La Ruina — Restaurant in Mérida

Great botanas in terms of variety, quality; best I have had on Meida. Excellent, friendly, attentive service. Bar is like a pub, with pub style barback which is made from mahogany. Several seating areas, including an outdoor patio. Live music, dancing daily in inner and puter patio. Crowded for an early Monday afternoon. A local hangout with occasional tourists. Good selection of domestic Mexicam beers, full bar of distilled liquor, with some mixed drinks, and shots. No wine Like many cantinas now, no cagumas. But, now have cheladas and micheladas and in addition to botanas they have a menu of mostly seafood dishes and daily selections. Wheelchair access to main areas, bathrooms. Families with children often come here, but not recommended for infants. LGT friendly. La Ruina is one of the great historic cantinas in Merida. Cheers!. I advise to ignore negative reviews! Seems like people get ticked about one thing and miss the experience. Note that positive reviews vastly outnumber the...

This cantina is one of the best I’ve been in Mérida; very attentive staff, the snacks are tasty and made throughout the day, with a pretty good 5-dish daily food menu. Drinks are properly priced, and its split in a bar room, a larger table room where you have daily live music and comedians taking the mic, as well as a patio for whoever prefers the hardcore humidity in Mérida and enjoys sweating like a pig.

For a traditional cantina, this is a solid 9 out of...

You don't have to be from Mexico to enjoy a cantina! They are friendly and welcoming places. Order drinks, snacks will be brought (included in the price of drinks) and if you keep ordering your empty plates are replaced so fast you'll have to ask them to slow down. We were clearly tourists, and were treated very well here. The drinks were icy and the food was flavorful with lively music and friendly locals...