Maya de Asia — Restaurant in Mérida

Place has a nice view and music playing at moderate level. They have Jazz and other music Thursdays thru Saturday or Sunday can't remember which. We enjoyed the appetizers lamb kibis and shrimp kibis not so much the hummus. Cocktails were good their were 4 of us and we all liked the ones we ordered all were different. We had a bottle of wine from their other restaurant Rosas and Xocolate it was very good. For dinner we had the waiters recommendation to share what a good decision. We had short ribs which were very tender with some sauce that was flavorful and blue tortilla that gave it a nice taste. We had a Asian beef stir fry was excellent but a bit spicy would suggest asking for a bit less unless you like your taste buds to be asking for more rice or water to tame the flame. We also had the fried octopus what a delight. Not sure how they fried this maybe twice but it was amazing. We had the only 2 desserts left that night and would skip them both (arroz con leche and some muffin with hibiscus and ice cream). The first if you like risotto sweet maybe you'd enjoy. The muffin seem a bit hard the hibiscus sauce and ice cream made it passable but I wouldn't have it again. Overall the experience and ambience and especially the food (except desserts) was very good, would definitely return to try...

I wasn’t super hungry, just came for a light dinner of nigiri and some drinks.

The nigiri was just ok, it came out with a ponzu dressing which tasted sweet to me, I had to ask for standard soy sauce which should have just been there on the table for me to flavour to my own preference.

The rice used for the nigiri wasn’t very nice, it was too moist and I can’t put my finger on the flavour but it wasn’t typical. The seafood selection was just ok, not the highest quality of fish but it wasn’t too bad either.

We also had their orange and chocolate brownie for dessert, topped with macha ice cream. The brownie was a little dry but tasted great.

They serve my favourite Japanese gin, Roku which made me happy. I ordered a G&T after my friend and I polished off a bottle of Spanish Cava. I think they have a decent wine selection and a very good range of spirits to pick from.

The vibe for a light meal and good drinks is just right. While I don’t think they’ve nailed nigiri (and probably sushi by proxy) I’d like to try more of their Mayan influenced dishes to get a better sense...

Overall the food was good, however I'm a vegetarian and they had very few options, and it was hard to spot them in the menu.

The fried rice had an explicit vegetarian option, though, which was actually more expensive than the regular one because it contained more vegetables.

It turns out that they didn't add all the vegetables they said it included, I denied giving up my plate to have it fixed because I was already quite hungry and eating it, so I requested the missing veggies on the side.

The service was overall good and they appeared like they actually cared...