Eat. Drink. Do. See. Recommendations from Board Members

As promised, friends, here is the list you created....

Favourite Zihua restaurants, places to shop, things to do as recommended by Friends of Zihua Bob’s Bulletin Board
On February 11 at Villa Mexicana

Restaurants:

Santa Prisca Pezole on Thursday. Go early to get a seat - 3:30 or earlier. Great local spot and great music.

La Bocana - Good Italian and clean restrooms. Breakfast and lunch only.

El Perla Negra - good soul food, good prices. Karma is great. Carlos will remember your name. Good chicken cordon blue, shish kebab, stuffed squash, homemade limon pie. Inexpensive drinks.

Casa Elvira downtown on pier – fajitas, enchiladas, burgers. Flambé banana looks good.

Captain’s Daughter - downtown Nicolas Bravo St. 2nd level. Good burgers with pickles, fries, wings, ribs, salads.

El Manglar - On La Ropa over the crocodiles. Fish roll, tuna or shrimp with coconut pecan sauce (this writer found the sauce overly sweet). 27 spice fish (like teriyaki), El Manglar salad with chicken, fish, or shrimp.

Puerto de Mare - downtown on waterfront near Cafe Marina. Good drinks. Artturo is the best bartender in Zihua. He will remember you.

Cafe Marina - good for breakfast.

Otillias on Las Gatas. Franco great bartender. He will remember you. Great lunch. Eat what Franco recommends.

Nardos - behind La Madeira beach. Grilled steaks, seafood outside

Papas Locos - Pastor tacos. Share - the potatoes are very large. Get papas especial potato with pastor and pinapple

Rossy’s on La Ropa - Langoustine soup and other soups. Also good roady drinks -any drink you want. Margaritas and piña coladas good.

Jungle pizza - great ambience. Owner from Baltimore - nice guy. Mud oven for pizzas. Marguerite pizza good. Chips and salsa to die for.

Rufo for dinner la Madeira no walls or roof

Las Braseros

Deositle for Pezole

Tamales Annie

La Perla seafood

Laguna next to Senior Frogs in Ixtapa for Valentine’s day - rock and roll 7-10 pm.

Don Memos - shrimp not breaded and coconut sauce, nice pasta for 700 pesos plenty to eat

Favourite things to see and do:

Mercado. Market. Go up all the aisles

Ride the bus with the locals

Take combi (bus) instead of taxi. 7 pesos get it near the dolphin statues every 15 minutes

Basketball court pickleball 7:30 am

Jimmy Mimou music and dancing at various locations

Watch for the crocodile man on the La Ropa. His name is Tamicun. Has an eye patch. If you have any crocodile problems give him a call. Or you can take a picture with him. Please pay him for his time.

Shopping and services

Buy silver at Hugo Mendoza 5th avenue Ixtapa

Cinqo de Mayo to get silver made into jewelry

Almond tequila. Near craft market

Deisy behind Rossy’s for message for 200 pesos

Coffee and vanilla next to Lupitas on Guerrero St.