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[Trev]

You're right, Holly. We've eaten in La Gloria a few times and it was really good. There's also a place that we never found in the colony that sells puerco pubil on Sunday mornings, early, in someones back yard. First come first serve. We didn't make it because Saturday nights were always too much fun. The directions were kinda sketchy too... wandering around la Gloria in the pre-dawn trying to follow my nose just didn't appeal to me. It's been on one of the Isla blow-boards, I think that's where I first heard of it. If you happen to go, take a pic or two. I'm really curious about it.

Edited by Trev, 31 January 2012 - 04:20 AM.

[Holly Moore]

I heard about the guy grilling in has back yard too. Never found him so I headed to the public market in La Gloria
for Cochinita Pibil. Everything is there, the butcher selling slow roasted cochinita Pibil, a tortilla baker, and stands selling fresh squeezed orange juice. Plenty left over for a couple of lunches.

Edited by Holly Moore, 31 January 2012 - 07:31 AM.

[Nyleve Baar]

The cochinita in the La Gloria market is murderously good. There were a couple of other people selling cochinita on Sunday morning along the road from Salina Chica to La Gloria but the stuff at the market just looked so much better. There's also a little carnitas stand along that road - pretty much at Salina Chica, which is near where we stay - and that stuff is great also. It's not too far south of the crossroad that goes to Kash Keken Chuk (sp???).

[Trev]

Man, you guys are making me hungry!

[DTBarton]

We went to isla Mujeres again in March.  I wanted to clue in the Holly Eats fans on one of my favorite places that has moved.

 

http://www.hollyeats...osAlmendros.htm

 

This is a place frequented almost exclusively by locals, I'm almost always the only gringo anywhere near it.  As Holly reported a few years back, it was located in the parking lot just south of the ferry landing.  There is now some construction going on there.  Los Almendros has moved to the sidewalk on the beach on Medina just north of where the last beachside restaurant is, now north of the ferry dock about a quarter mile.

 

Don't have to wait until Sunday to get their conchinita pibil on a torta or a taco.  A torta ordered picante, with their hot salsa, to me is my favorite bargain food ever.  Great fresh bread, succulent pork (he usually tries to give you some soft insides and some crunchy outside/skin for texture) and spicy salsa for 20 pesos, about $1.70 right now.  I think I'll have two.  FYI, they are closed on Monday.

 

I'd also like to put in a plug for the Poc Chuc restaurant at the corner of Juarez and Abasolo in el Centro (different from the one at the Mercado on Guerrero).  We've eaten there several times and never had anything bad.  Their conchinita on Sunday is fantastic.  They have a snack type thing called a picada (I think) that to me is essential Mexican food.  It's a masa dough pressed into a small round disk thicker than a tortilla.  They grill it on a flat top and put beans, onions and cilantro on it.  So simple, so freakin' good.  The texture of the dough makes the dish.  They also do a mean chicken mole.

Edited by DTBarton, 06 April 2013 - 09:53 AM.

[Holly Moore]

The dish you describe sounds like a sope to me, or a variation. One of my favorite foods Mexican.

 

Thanks for the update.

 

I was on Isla in February.  Will be updating my sight manana. (Still trying to get back up to speed.)