La Casa Del Tikinxic

A popular dish on the Isla de Mujeres I kept reading about was the Tikinxic, the famous grilled fish seasoned with achiote, and at Playa Lancheros Restaurant was place to be. The restaurant is located on Playa Lancheros on the South End Bahia. You can take a taxi, a cart, bike it, or walk to there from the hotel zone in about 30-40 minutes. The restaurant’s name has been changed to La Casa Del Tikinxic.

You should go there around noon, order the dish and hang out at the beach because it takes about 40 minutes for them to serve it. The ocean in December was too cold for me so I chillax at the table with my daiquiri admiring the view.

It would have been better if there were more hot men but it’s the holidays so you mostly have families or hippo size tourists. If you’re sitting outside by the palm trees beware of the coconuts. The table next to me said one fell on them the other day.

The rough part of traveling solo in Mexico is the food quantity. Grande. There’s no half order of the Tikinxic. You have to order the entire fish….



The tikinxic was not bad. They grilled it for more than half an hour, so I was hoping it to be more flavorful. I know what you're thinking, looking at my drink, you're thinking that I might have been smashed. My daiquiri was weak so there was nothing wrong with my taste buds. I guess I was expecting more unique flavors since I was out the States. Nonetheless the dish was inexpensive. My total came out to $110MX not including tip.

Still, if you haven’t had the Tikinxic definitely try it, but bring a companion or a stranger so you can try something else.

The menu:


Address: South End Bahia, Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Phone#: +52 99 88 77 03 40

La Lomita

I am dusting my site, and starting to write...thanks to Miss Janet. Blogging is so hard to do when you have a full-time job, especially when your blog has absolutely nothing to do with your work. I am amazed by other writers who can do write-a-thons like the Minty who works full-time and Banana Wonder who's a full-time student; they both eat like Takeru Kobayashi, and write faster than I can eat.
Where to pick up from where I left off...? I guess I'll start from La Lomita and work my way back and in between write more current dining experience just to confuse both of us. Thus this entry is dated December 24th. No it's not Christmas Eve now but I was there on that date. That's the thing about food. I can't remember what I did on a given day, but if I can remember what I ate, the puzzles start to come together.

Every 2-3 three years, I go out of the States. Why every 2-3 years? Unlike most companies that give two weeks off, I must not take a vacation in one year to accumulate enough vacation days to make an int'l trip worthy because I'm not getting on a plane for 16 hours one-way for just 5 days. I remembered one year we had to decide if we wanted to take Christmas Eve off or New Years Eve...

Christmas Eve was my last night on the Isla de Mujeres. Isla de Mujeres or the Island of Women is a 30-minute boat ride from Cancun. I had made a ridiculous 10-page itinerary of all the things I must see and eat, and La Lomita was one of them. La Lomita is not the ideal Christmas Eve meal but due to time, it worked and did not disappoint me at all. It’s located on Avenue Juarez about a 5-7 minute walk from the hotel zone. There's no number for the address because the island is pretty damn small. It’s a typical eatery in Mexico: simple.

La Lomita is famous for their chili rellenos.

It’s served with a black bean soup and rice. They had a special Christmas Eve dinner but I was on a mission for their chili rellenos. Would it be better than La Casita’s chili rellenos? Yes, it was. Granted La Lomita’s chili rellenos are different from La Casita’s…it’s fried and the pepper is inside the dish…but what made it tasted better was the gooey cheese!

Comfort food, you’ve got to love them. It wasn’t soggy from being deep fried, but definitely filling and hit the right spot from walking on the island all day. I can’t seem to find the receipt but La Lomita is fairly inexpensive and perfect if you’re looking for authentic Mexican dishes. I heard their mole is die for. I would if I had room. I’m not a bean person so their black bean soup tasted like a black bean soup.

The one ingredient that was missing from my meal was a mojito. They offer beer and sodas.
The mosquitoes in Mexico ate more meals off of me, but I think it’s just because they know who eats good food. A Christmas Eve dinner to remember!

Address: Avenue Juarez, Isla Mujeres (Cross Street: Centro)
Hours: 9AM-11:30PM Mon-Sat (d/c)

Mango Cafe

I have been seriously eating like a hippo. I guess if you’re not consuming 5,000 calories a day you’re not really having a vacation, right? To off set calories I decided to walk to Mango Café. I took the scenic route, waking around the cliff,…behind people’s back yard. I was waiting for someone to call the police but apparently a local informed I that it’s open to the public…weird but neat. Here’s a cool house I came across:

They are really living in a seashell by the seashore. I wonder if the owner’s name is Sally… anyway the scenic route took me about an hour to walk to Mango Café from the Hotel Zone. Mango Café is famous for their French toast. I’ve been informed that their dinner is great but everyone is talking about their French toast. Their French toast takes two hours to make. Well, it took me less than two hours to get there, arrived around 10AM on a Friday, and they were SOLD OUT. Damn. I thought if I shed some tears of coming all the way Isla de Mujeres would help but it didn’t. Damn. The story of my life…

Mango Café is a cute, cozy restaurant. It was mostly Americans dining. The best part of traveling solo is that you are forced to talk to strangers…or not. I was conversing with an American and she was ranting about how her siblings didn’t want to travel outside the States yet at the time all she wanted to do on the Isla de Mujeres was to lie on a beach and tan…ironic.

Menu is located on the board:

They forgot to 86 the French toast…talk about a buzz kill. Well since it was brunch I went for the shrimp Benedict…minus the shrimp.

The Hollandaise sauce was a bit off but it wasn’t bad. It certainly filled me up. I definitely appreciate that they charged me less since I told them that I was allergic to crustacean.—that’s VERY RARE. They charged me $80MEX instead of $100MEX.

I guess I’ll have to come back to try their French toast…

Address: Colonia Meteorologico | Across from Guadlupe Church, Isla Mujeres 77400, Mexico
Phone#: 011.52.1.998.230.8489