Restaurants

Restaurants

Often, the best way to seek restaurants is simply to walk the streets and see what looks good. New places open, old places close, so choices change year to year, and certainly by the time you read this at least one of these will have closed and there will be a new restaurant not on this list.

El Costeño (also known as Ruperto’s): On the beach, great seafood, traditional Mexican dishes & breakfasts, beer, margaritas & soft drinks. Great for hanging out watching the beach action!

Don Pedro’s: On the beach, only Sayulita restaurant taking credit cards, fancy (good) food upstairs, bar fare downstairs, full bar.

A Bicyclette: French food, one block towards town from our complexes.

Leonardo’s: Italian food and woodfired pizza’s. Located directly across from the church.

Rollie’s: Was breakfast only, showman Rollie dishing out American style and size breakfasts along with conversation and occasional song. One block past the town square. Added dinners with a surprisingly large menu in winter 2004.

Choco Banana: Adjacent to town square, coffee, muffins, breakfasts, shakes & burgers at lunch, along with newspapers.

La Ola Rica (in neighboring San Pancho) serves outstanding Gourmet Mexican food. Woodfired fish, enchaladas, and pizza’s. Full bar, accepts credit cards. Worth the trip! Drive north on Highway 200 about 4 miles, take the San Francisco turn to the left, then straight ahead, 2 blocks from beach.

Sí Hay Olitas: New, brightly colored and open looking cafe along the main street, between the bridge and town square. Dependable, reasonable breakfasts, seafood and traditional lunch & dinner.

Sayulita Café (House of Chili Relleno):. Try the “Molcajete”, they our outstanding! . On main street between river and town square.

El Dragon Rojo: Chinese and live music at night.

Villa Amor: Depending upon the chef each year, the hotel restaurant serves dinners running from delicious to so so, with seafood, salads, traditional fare, fancy pizzas and pastas. Reviews from those dining during winter 2004-5 were unanimous awful, but much better now!

Sayulita Fish Tacos: Opposite the town square, on the uphill side. This is a favorite of many visitors, at least those who love fish tacos. In 2004 they opened a dinner only branch two blocks nort h of the river on the main street into town. Closed Sunday’s.

Cafe Caminito: Located across from the town square. Homemade Argentinan food and pastas. Open for dinner with rooftop dining by candles!

Sayulita Lounge: Located in across from the town square. Internet and bar open in the evenings.

Ron’s Pizza: A long-time presence, with eat-in or take-out pizza. On the road next to the river, just over the bridge then turn right.

Macando: Pasta and salads, a couple of blocks from Los Delfines, opposite the baseball field, and one block closer to Los Delfines. Credit cards accepted.

Calypso: Upstairs across from the town square, expanded and remodeled in 2006 into a large restaurant with a broad menu, and great appetizer s & drinks!

Break-Fast: Located on the main beach in town. Internet café/ deli-smoothie bar, and now they have a full bar. Open for breakfast and lunch.

El Tigre: Behind Choco Banana, good Mexican fare. An upstairs bar was added in 2004.

Street Vendors: Visitors love eating taco/burrito concoctions of chicken, beef or pork at very reasonable prices, open most evenings at the town square, right beside Choco Banana.

The “muffin” lady and Tamale lady: In the morning (between 8:00 and 10:30), the “muffin” lady walks through the complexes selling yummy muffins of all kinds: coconut, cheese, corn, pineapple, banana….and little pie’s too. And in the afternoon, the tamale lady sells fresh-made tamales of pork, chicken, and chili/cheese. Both of these are a “must have”, and great for saving for later.

***Many more restaurants have been added to the town of Sayulita, but the above are the one’s worth mentioning.

Sayulita has a few paleterías serving wonderful ice cream, popsicles and other sweets, all made with purified water! One of the new one’s is called Toponieves, and they have great, unique flavors.

In Puerto Vallarta are many, many good restaurants, particularly at the Marina (turn right at the Neptune statue, then take the first left and park anywhere in it’s two blocks, the Marina is just ahead) and in the Centro or Old Town district. One of our favorites is Café de Olla located in Viejo Vallarta (old town) on the street Bazillio Badillo, one block up from the beach near Hotel “Los Arcos”. And another favorite is The Red Onion (El Repollio Rojo), located in the old town but “off the beaten track”. Teens prefer the action at the “hot restaurants/bars” in the Malecon district, near Old Town.

Cooking at Home

The stove top and oven are gas. In Los Delfines, most stove tops have an igniter button. To ignite a burner, please first be sure the stove is plugged into the electric socket, then turn on the burner (clockwise) and push the little igniter button on the left side of the panel. If this does not work, please use a match or lighter.

To ignite the oven, you must open the oven door, then turn on the oven heat control, and manually light (in the small hole at center) the oven burner. Be sure you see the flame before closing door.

If you have a problem with the stove or oven, please ask Janet or Kerry.

BBQs are wonderful for cooking fish or chicken. You will need to purchase “carbon” (pronounced car - bone) which is used as charcoal.

Supplies can be found in the little stores, along with the carnicerías (butchers) which you will see along the streets. Fish can be purchased most days fresh off the boats at the fishermen’s shack just past Don Pedro’s on the beach. Often you will see (and hear the loudspeaker) a pickup truck slowly going by, hawking fresh seafood, vegetables or fruits. These are normally very good bargains, and fun for those who are venturesome. Soft drinks, beer and liquor can be found at most little stores, with a larger variety at the three liquor stores in town.

Remember to soak any fruits and veggies that will not be peeled in order to kill germs. Put into a pot with clean water and a couple drops of “gotas” (literally, Spanish for drops) that come in the tiny blue bottles, and are available in many of the stores.

If you prefer, visit the supermarkets of Puerto Vallarta mainly the three Commercial Mexican branches, the wonde rful Gutiérrez Rizo supermarket in old town, two health food stores also in old town, or Sam’s and Wal-Mart on the main road through PV.