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A Look Back at Mexico:  Mérida, Redux ~ Part 2:  The FOOD!

2/14/2017

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In Part 1 of our look back on our December 2015 trip to Mérida, the capital of Mexico's Yucatan state, I promised to show you the delicious food we ate while in the city.  I'm making good on that promise in this post.  Simply revisiting our photos makes my mouth water.

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érida is well known as a haven for foodies, and there are many wonderful dining choices here, with over 600 restaurants listed on Tripadvisor.  Yucatecan cuisine abounds, of course, but there are also a wide range of international restaurants of all flavors with many countries of the world represented. Being somewhat creatures of habit, we primarily ended up revisiting places we'd enjoyed on our first trip here a few years prior, though we did try a new lunch spot and found a fabulous new gelato place for treats.  Since a tasty breakfast buffet of fruit, cereal, and pastries was served daily at our lovely little hotel, we didn't eat any breakfasts out.

The new lunch spot we found was one of the classic Mexican holes in the wall offering cheap eats, a different almuerzo (lunch) special daily, and was packed with locals; always a good sign.  I couldn't even tell you the name of this place as we just stopped in as we walked by because it looked busy and inexpensive.  We ordered turkey panuchos, our favorite Yucatecan treat, and they were delicious!  
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For dinner, we enjoyed returning to Hennessy's Irish Pub on the Paseo de Montejo, one of the spots we'd enjoyed on our first trip.  In addition to traditional Irish fare and a lengthy beer menu (of course!), they offer lighter salads and appetizers that hit the spot after a heavier Yucatecan lunch.  And by eating a lighter dinner, we saved room for gelato for dessert!   

We ate dinner at Hennessy's twice.  The first time, after our lunch of panuchos, we enjoyed loaded salads.  These obviously aren't exceptionally low in calories, but at least they offered the veggies we were craving.
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My Avocado Salad
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Barry's Grilled Chicken Salad
On our second visit, we shared a couple of items from the appetizer menu, and they were as delicious on the palate as they are to look at.  The top one is beet salad with sprouts and spiced nuts, but I can't recall the bottom one; I think a fish cake of some sort, with salads on the side.  (Note to self: It helps if you don't wait over a year to blog a restaurant!)  I do recall that they were both specials that evening.
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We celebrated Barry's birthday while we were in the city.  For his birthday lunch, we returned to one of our favorite spots from our first visit, the well-known Restaurante La Chaya Maya.  Of course we had to go for panuchos again, and Barry enjoyed one of the chaya-pineapple drinks they are famous for and some chaya soup.  A perfect lunch for the birthday boy!
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For his birthday dinner, he wanted casual, so we re-visited another spot from our first trip. El Chile Habanero serves Mexican and Latin food but also pizza!  And we've never seen anyone but locals inside.  Their specialty is the Pollo Afrodite (Aphrodite Chicken), heavy with fruit.  And of course, margaritas!  They have 2x1 drink specials if you arrive early, which suits us just fine, as we eat dinner a lot earlier than most folks in Mérida seem to.
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The birthday boy!
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Barry's Aphrodite Chicken
I tried a small Vegetarian Pizza, and it was loaded! 
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For dessert, and indeed a couple of additional times on this same trip, we visited a new, and very special, gelateria, Pola.  It was amazing, and we tried quite a few of the flavors.  My favorite was the dark chocolate-chile.  Mmmmmm.....

On Barry's birthday, we actually visited after lunch and after dinner, if you can believe that!
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And, since it's not a birthday without both ice cream and cake, Barry found a bakery along the Paseo and bought a piece of chocolate cake to finish off his birthday night in fine style!
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Please stay tuned, as we have one more post on Mérida to share, followed by our jaunts into the interesting "Yellow City" of Izamal and charming coastal Celestún. 
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    Emily & Barry

    We're a long-married, early-retired couple who are currently traveling as nomads with no fixed home base.  After years of living in North Carolina (Emily's home state), we spent 18 months living oceanfront on Ambergris Caye, Belize, a year road-tripping the US in a Honda CR-V, a year in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, and are now roaming North America in our 32' motorhome, Pearl, following warm weather whenever possible.

    Our passions are bicycling, walking and hiking, birding, continuing our midlife struggles to learn Spanish, enjoying healthy food (and the occasional donuts & pie!), traveling (duh!)  We travel with a fleet of bicycles and Paisley, our 10-year old Boston Terrier. 

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  • Traveling Twosome Blog
  • BeBelize - Our life in Belize (2011-2013)
  • Earlier adventures (2003-2010)
    • First Belize Trip 2010
    • Fall Sail Cruise Aboard Logos 2009
    • Conch Key 2007
    • Charleston Sailing School 2007
    • Biscayne Bay Sailing School 2007
    • Key Lime Sailing Club 2006
    • Southwest Parks 2006
    • BEYC/Jost van Dyke, BVI 2005
    • Offshore Sailing School 2004
    • Annapolis Sailboat Show 2004
    • Finger Lakes 2004
    • NY State Bike Tour 2004
    • Biras Creek, BVI 2003