The best restaurants Puerto Escondido

This restaurant in La Punta offers excellent vegetarian dishes. On the menu are delicious and colorful tacos, salads, different varieties of bowls filled with different ingredients (mostly vegetables and seeds), some burgers and sandwiches, etc. The tables are set up directly in the sand, under the cool palapas and palm leaves. The place also has a long bar, and for good reason: the cocktails are as worthwhile as the food. In the morning, the freshly squeezed fruit juices do the trick!

Recently opened by an Argentinean this small gourmet café has very soft prices and good hamburgers with soy, pancakes and pizza shares, natural fruit juice.

Another restaurant on the beach, but it serves a slightly different cuisine, so-called gourmet, with strong Asian influences (for example, tuna to teriyaki sauce). Superb sea view, we appreciate the effort to create less traditional dishes, but prices are a bit expensive. You can always go back to the adjoining lounge bar and simply enjoy a cocktail in front of the sunset.

The restaurant offers a wide selection of meat prepared in the Argentinean fashion (grilled meats) or Mexican (in taco). Carpaccio of fish, salads and pasta for vegetarians. Tables outside under palapas. A good address.

This small restaurant offers a technically perfect and deliciously creative cuisine. Sometimes you can find the flavours of Oaxacan products but concocted and arranged in an original way, such as these pork confits, lamb shanks and duck tacos. There are also pastries: if you are lucky, you will find a perfectly executed strawberry cake. Beautifully presented and with a small bistro atmosphere to bring a tear of nostalgia. After several years of delighting visitors, this is now a real classic.

This little shack offers good fish and smoked fish tacos with very good sauces, as well as very fresh ceviche with small vegetables. Those who prefer can order a grilled fish, served whole on the plate, with rice and a salad. We particularly appreciate the careful presentation (a rarity) and the colourful dishes. A simple family address, with green plants on the terrace. To be discovered.

All kinds of freshly prepared pasta. 

This small restaurant on the beach of Zicatela serves breakfast and pancakes, sandwiches and salads in the daytime.

At Jaime. If you like the very tender octopus and just a bit noticed, ask the pulpo al ajillo, it is not on the map. It also offers excellent mariscadas with a lobster per person or crab.

Everyone knows Claudio, he is a little the soul of Puerto. Moreover, the pictures that adorn the walls are beautiful testimonies of history. Claudio came from Italy twenty years ago when the port had only 2 500 inhabitants. There are many choices from breakfast to wood fire and pasta. Very good natural fruit juice.

Excellent, very rich and economical sandwiches, natural fruit juices, one regret: the fruit is frozen. We advise you the Italiana with pierna and melted cheese. You are asked if you wish to "con todo", so if you do not like the lawyer, onion, tomato, pepper or mayonnaise, say "No! '.

Small restaurant on the edge of the main beach which serves good fish and fresh beer.

For those who decide to venture more than 200 meters from the beach to discover what the popular center of Puerto Escondido looks like, a small gourmet break is just what you need in this small restaurant: traditional Mexican at its best! It serves the regional specialities of the state of Oaxaca: mole, tlayudas, huaraches, etc. Everything is excellent and cheap. The local atmosphere changes considerably from the more touristy restaurants on the seaside. For a gourmet and authentic stopover.

For a Western-style breakfast, which almost makes you feel like you're in California, there's nothing like stopping by this pleasant little café-restaurant. You can start with the pastries, especially the croissants, which are quite good. As for the dishes, you can start with a hearty omelette, scrambled eggs with bacon or a sandwich. Also on the menu are excellent smoothies and fresh fruit juices, perfect for a refreshing drink.

The place has a terrace and a nice beachy bohemian decor. Great for wifi, too!

What could be better than eating a ceviche con leche tigre with both feet in the sand, equipped with a bizarre spoon that doubles as a fork? Since 2016, it is in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere that the young staff of Chicama offers a menu of Peruvian fusion cuisine to which one cannot remain indifferent. Lulled by the melodies of Manu Chao and Celia Cruz, cooks and waiters alike dance and sing along as they prepare fresh fish dishes, tiraditos and delicious house cocktails.