Sandala Café — Restaurant in Oaxaca

My favorite place during my stay. Great calm ambiance, tree canopy keeps you in shade, good music, good wifi for work, great coffee, great service a good selection of breakfast/brunch treats. BUT! The portions of meals can vary a lot in sizes and not so much in price, the fruit bowl is really huge, avocado toast too but the toast with peach and strawberries was ridiculously small. Literally a little piece of bread with a few slices of peach and strawberries on it.

Another day they ran out of coffee at 10 am + I was waiting for it 30 minutes until they brought it and food for almost 1 hour (they didn't admit they forgot but I know they did, I'm not stupid). Also, when we were here a few weeks ago with friends, the total bill was around 1500 and they wrote 500 pesos as an optional 15% tip, seriously? We thought it was a mistake but still, it is pretty obviously 30%. We didn't pay...

Me and my brother tried a couple of places in puerto and we came across A beautiful back yard converted to a cafe. The staff are very nice and attentive, the food is amazing prepared from high quality ingredients. Over a couple of days I’ve eat almost everything from there small but interesting menu, the fruit bowl is very fresh and surprisingly filling, the rice pudding is topped with roasted cacao nibs which gives the dish a lot of character, the roasted tomato toast is packed with deep flavours and the acidity of the cappers balance the dish perfectly, the avocado toast is super fresh but in my opinion it lacks lime and salt. The sakshuka is good and it’s great value for money super filling. To sum up my experience at this beautiful place is one...

Sadly we didn’t enjoy this cafe. Possibly due to our taste. I couldn’t wait to leave. Half cafe was cornered off so you were forced to sit in a small area in sun outside without fans (32 mid day heat)

All the food was on toast. Tomatoes in toast, avo on toast etc no variety. The only option that was of variety the shukshuka, wasn’t available

Maybe suits some, not for us. Mainly the music was hideous - angry German intense rubbish… un relaxing and stressful environment coupled with having to sit in hot sun without fan as most cafe cornered off and the digital nomads had most of the individual tables to themselves. Not...