Z Place 2 B

My very first attempt at work when I arrived to live permanently in Zihuatanejo back in '89 was to help my mother with a small artisan furniture shop. I don't recall hardly ever selling a thing there, but my future wife would bring me home-cooked meals with frijoles & tortillas every day and I began giving private English classes to a small Mexican family 3 times a week, so that was cool. The little shop was located on Calle Pedro Ascencio on the ground floor of a hotel and across the street from Kapi Kofi where Doña Olga would often try to cheat to beat me and other folks at backgammon, so that after a while no one would play with her any more. Upstairs from Kapi Kofi was a dance school that taught traditional Mexican ballet folclórico. The street was always very peaceful and rustic. A place where everyone seemed to know each other. There were no bars blaring music, and of course everything was closed by midnight. We did indeed drink a lot of mezcal at the bar that later opened next to Kapi Kofi. It eventually became Barracruda quite a few years later before moving to its current location. Mostly locals and long-time visitors hung out there though a few brave tourists would show up from time to time and of course get talked into drinking too much mezcal. Yes sirree, those were some fun times!

Calle Pedro Ascencio is not only one of my favorite streets, but it's also one of Zihuatanejo's most iconic pedestrian-only streets. Just watch out for the motorcycles of the pizza delivery guys.