La Cantina at Vidanta Riviera Maya — Restaurant in Quintana Roo

This restaurant has spectacular views and a great atmosphere. They play music videos on the screens and the decor is very traditional indigenous Mexican. Their menu is loaded with many southern Mexican cuisine. They first serve chips with flavorful chips - red, regular, greens and brown/ blackish that has flavors of amazing mole (Chile poblanos) My absolute favorite was their Oaxcanc guacamole with toasted seasoned crickets that helps make the guacamole! (Can have these with chips or tortillas - I prefer flour tortillas to make tacos). Their lobster tacos are also very good. The chorizo fondue is very good as well. The service is very good, super friendly people. The prices are not too high. We went there 3...

Great place because it's air conditioning but the only thing I can say is that the help needs more training and the fajita dish needs better vegetables because you have to cut up the vegetables because they are really not cooked completely. They need to add some pepper and some other things to the fajitas. The chicken was very good if they just change the vegetables up and use some better ingredients the fajitas would be really good the food was mediocre but it was not as good as some of the other restaurants that we ate at. The waiter that helped us was not very helpful and he didn't check on us very often. At the end of the meal I had to run down another employee in order to get...

La Cantina was one of the best restaurants we ate at this trip. We kind of bombed on the appetizers since we weren't really fans of the Caribbean ceviche and the queso wasn't melted enough to pull. However, the black mole chicken was great, the green mole short ribs were good, the lamb Birria tacos were stellar, and the tres leches cake my boyfriend and I both agreed was one of the best we've ever had... And we eat a lot of tres leches. Additionally our server was great, I really wish I could remember his name. Overall, a bit overpriced (expected at a resort restaurant) but a positive experience and worthwhile restaurant to...