Restaurant La Central — Restaurant in Santa Elena

We were there just a few weeks ago. We visited Uxmal and decided to visit some of the other ruins that are close by. As it started to get dark, we decided to eat at this restaurant in Santa Elena.

Wow are we glad we did. This is a very small locally owned restaurant. This is real authentic food prepared fresh by the owner and her family. The owner was very sweet and took care of us.

I ordered the Sopa de Lima and it was THE BEST I had during my whole trip to Mexico (I had it 4 other times as well). Wow it was so good.

For an entree we got the fajitas and the way that the meat was marinated was outstanding. Just off the charts tasty.

All of the other items we had were great and the service was quick as well.

I would recommend this place to anyone in the area. It is worth the stop and also worth supporting the owner who not only is nice but...

I was just in good mood and vibes, Santa Elena is so local and cute village. But this place is total SCAM, reviews are made obviously by local friends as I checked later. It’s super expensive compared to normal mexican food and even european restaurants in Mexico. Very low quality of food. I got vegetable soup which was basically just water and boiled frozen vegetables for 70 pesos! My wife got Flautas which was only chicken with ketchup wrapped in tortillas. Interior is cute poor space, like when you get tacos for 8 pesos in somebody’s garage in Mexico City, so no problem with that. But prices and food, its...

Quite possibly the best place to eat in Santa Elena, we had the pollo pibil which was excellent and 2 very welcome super frosty beers. Immaculate bathrooms, so suspect kitchen is the same. The owner is the kindest, we missed the bus and had to wait on the highway, she took a mototaxi to check that we were OK and let us know that a bus was coming, just as we were about to give up. A truly beautiful human and great cook too....