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17 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

We are really enjoying it here. I love it. Crazy how you can go from the ridiculousness and character of Hidalgo and stray dogs and cats to a beautiful quiet resort hotel on a world class beach within a few steps. I also love the vibrancy and character of the central and southern part of the island. Off to Puerto Aventuras tomorrow. 

Some food/restaurant thoughts and pics. 

First, agree with whoever said it that it isn't necessarily cheap here. Paid in pesos but my family of four I don't think had a meal for less than $130 or so. Now I'm not complaining but not all that different from anywhere else, be it home or on vacation. Yeah that usually included a marg or two for me and sometimes a frozen drink for the kids. 

Also it seems to be a thing here that they don't bring you your bill until you ask for it, even if you're clearly done, have declined dessert and your table is clean. Lesson learned. I don't want to be the pushy American so it made for some awkward moments. 

The best thing I tasted this week honestly was the house bread at Rolandi's. It was this giant puff of hot soft bread drizzled with olive oil and salt. It was gone in about 20 seconds. Pizza was ok. I ordered the pizza and my son ordered the grilled chicken and we agreed to share. I had two pieces of pizza and he had the rest of both dishes. Welcome to feeding a 15 year old.

We hit up Taco Tuesday at Xantolo. Taco lunch for 200 pesos with a free marg/virgin daiquiri. Wife and daughter had the Arrachera tacos, son had ribeye tacos and I had al pastor. Very good! 

Basto's was good but I like my Arrachera and my daughter liked her burger more than my son enjoyed his ribeye (very thin and a ton of non edible fat). My wife ordered sopa even though she's never had it before and it was meh. Loved our server even though he missed half of our drinks and didn't bring the bill for like 25 minutes after we were done. You guys were nails on that seasoning they put in the Arrachera. So damn good. 

Last night for dinner we hit the taco trucks and brought them back to order drinks and eat poolside at Ixchel. That was a lot of fun and cheap and delicious. Not a ton of taco trucks where I live unless you're in SW Detroit and I'm not often. 

Today we went golf carting again to the Southern part of the island to catch some things we missed on Tuesday when we went to Punta Sur. I was trying to please everyone and deciding between Mango's, Yayo and Oscar's and I...chose poorly. Oscar's had pizza, pasta and Mexican and my daughter isn't much for Mexican. We got there, sat down, ordered drinks, and the guy was like no pizza, no pasta, only grill. He was probably the only person we encountered all week who wasn't very friendly. Anyway the boy and I ordered Arrachera steaks and they were cooked to the texture of an old leather boot. Still not horrible but trying to cut that thing with a butter knife was a good forearm workout. Daughter got nachos that she liked and my wife tried to order a burger with fries but somehow they only understood the fries part. She's a Midwest people pleaser and refused to try to correct the issue and had fries for lunch. Margs were strong, though. 3/10 do not recommend. 

Tonight we had the best meal of the stay. I think I would definitely recommend this place to the surly Isla mafia. Maybe kind of new and slightly bougie as far as bougie can be on the Isla. Rusticco. 4.9* on Google and the pics looked too nice for us. A true foodie place and we aren't foodies. But they had something for everyone and it was on point.

Pregame I had the pineapple marg with charred rosemary. We ordered an app of shrimp tempura with bam bam sauce that was delicious. Wife and daughter split some pasta Bolognese with vodka sauce that they loved and a chicken Caesar. Son got an amazing looking Arrachera steak, medium rare. He said as good as it was the carrots were even better. I had lobster tacos and they were dynamite. Pics below. Slammed and went hard.

 


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Some other random pics and a video of Hidalgo at night for posterity. Thanks for turning me on to this awesome place surly. What an amazing four days and unlike anyplace we have ever been. We are running out of family trips before the boy graduates, but I will be back at some point. 

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Outstanding pics.  The little postcard op on Punta Sur is so good with that background / shades of blue. 

Glad you enjoyed. 

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