Itamae — Restaurant in Valladolid

The cuisine here was exquisite, in Mexico I've rarely met such delicious salmon. The cocktail carte was also interesting. The food serving was thoughtful and beautiful.

But we've stumbled upon one major problem. INSECTS. Lots of flies and some mosquitoes. Flies were attacking us all the time right after the waiter had brought our dishes. It was insurmountable and screwed up all the experience here. When mosquitoes started to bite, I asked to bring a repellent. It helped with mosquitoes, but not with the flies, unfortunately.

My husband told about this to the waiter, but he did nothing, just smiled. Before paying for the dinner, we asked to talk with the supervisor. We just wanted to share some ideas on how they could protect visitors from flies. The supervisor responded that almost nothing can be done because of food everywhere. It surprised me a lot, I mean how food can be even served if you have flies all around?

Also we were disappointed when the supervisor asked how much tips we would like to leave. Man, we were explaining how we had been suffering all the dinner due to your failed service 10 seconds ago, and you don't even bother to offer some compensation. To offer to skip the tips would be the least compensation possible, I'm not talking about any other compliments.

I've looked through other reviews, and there already were complaints about the flies. So it's systematic, and they don't bother to do anything with it....

I will be honest, I'm a huge sushi lover, I'm often rolling my own maki/california. I don't recommand this place, because : rice doesn't taste the usual rice vinegar at all, the fish doesn't taste good (it doesn't taste anything) I guess it s bad quality frozen fish

I tried wasabi tuna maki : there was too much wasabi ( and I usually love it ) that it made me cry (Wasabi is inside the maki) Weird thing, I asked for wasabi on the side before trying the wasabi makis, and this wasabi on the side was not that strong...

In the end, eventhough I had a sushi craving during my trip here in yucatan, I highly regret that I went for that one, this is not quality food (what highly requires sushi making)

Only good point is the présentation, which is beautiful, eventhough you can see from the first sight that fish isn't great even without trying it, not the usual reflection with light

Prices were ok, but not worth it, but ok enough to...

I didn't expect to like this place as much as I did. It's a pseudo Japanese-Mexican fusion restaurant located about a five minute walk from the main square. I ordered the Arrachera Ramen and Spicy Tuna roll. I really enjoyed the Ramen. Normally ramen broth is too salty to drink, but I completely finished this bowl. The Arrachera was a great touch as the way it was charcoaled really added to the soup flavor. The spicy tuna roll was completely fine for Mexico, not amazing, but better than most sushi places. My advice as always with sushi in Mexico is to not order anything with cream cheese. If you're craving Japanese or Asian food in Valladolid, you really can't go wrong...