Cabo San Lucas’ dining culture is much more than buckets of melted ice margaritas and all-you-can-eat buffets situated in similar resorts. Cabo has some of the greatest seafood in the world, and tourists would be negligent if they didn’t try the exquisite chocolate clams, juicy lobsters, and smoked marlin that the peninsula is famed for.
Though the country’s fine dining scene attracts the majority of international attention, thanks to star chefs such as Enrique Olvera of Pujol in Mexico City, who are creating some of the most innovative menus in the country, it’s the meals that don’t require silverware that capture the region’s essence.
The iconic fish taco, which was original — but is no longer — made with shark flesh, is the most typical of casual, fished-this-morning Baja food.
The white fish is gently fried and breaded, bathed with lime, and served with red cabbage in a warm flour tortilla characteristic of the food near Mexico’s northern border.
The seafood tostada, which consists of various varieties of fish, served raw or in ceviche form, layered atop a toasted tortilla and topped with avocado, is another distinctly Baja favorite.
Tacos Gardenias
Located at El Medano Ejidal. Because tacos are what you eat in Mexico. Tacos Gardenias has been family-owned and operated for more than 30 years, serving Baja favorites including fish tacos, shrimp cocktails, ceviche, and seafood soup, as well as tacos loaded with cochinita pibil (juicy marinated pork), nopales, and fried shrimp.
For those who want to get some tacos after surfing, the taqueria opens at 8 a.m. There is an identical outdoor restaurant at the nearby identical resorts of the Courtyard Restaurant.
Mariscos El Compa Chava
A very elegant Mexico restaurant. Located at Lomas De Chapultepec. El Compa Chava is a ramshackle roadside eatery with a dirt floor and a straw roof that serves locals and domestic visitors who take their ceviche seriously.
Choose from octopus, raw shrimp, and fish ceviche, as well as ceviche presented within big chocolate clams or a molcajete (a Baja speciality).
Everything at Compa Chava is bueno, bonito, and barato — a traditional idiom meaning nice, lovely, and inexpensive — and the shrimp tacos, platters of gently battered bass, and baby scallop aguachiles are just as wonderful as the ceviche.
WTF Burger Bar
WTF Burger Bar, which opened in late 2014, quickly established itself as one of Cabo San Lucas’ greatest American eateries. It’s outside the Puerto Paraiso Mall, with a view of the Marina. WTF Burger Bar is one of Cabo San Lucas’s top-rated eateries.
Whether you’re a local looking for something different or a tourist longing for your homeland, our restaurant is the spot for you. The service is an important aspect of a quality restaurant. WTF Burger Bar brags about its exceptional service and spectacular outlook.
We suggest trying some of their famous burgers, which are known for having the tastiest burgers in town. Do you have a strong desire for something massive and heavy?
Juicy Lucy, a loaded double patty with smoked gouda and cheddar, grilled onions, lettuce, tomato, and onion strings, is a must-try.
Acre Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
Acre is a contemporary farm-to-table restaurant that specializes in international cuisine with a focus on local ingredients. This eatery is located in the center of the Acre Farm Resort. Try out the Acre Baja. Acre’s contemporary design is complemented by the beauty of an oasis-like location.
The mix of delightful ambience, picture-perfect settings, and exquisite cuisine makes it the greatest lunch in Cabo San Lucas. Enjoy your meal in this beautiful setting while taking in the beauty of nature.
Chocolata Clam Ceviche with yellow pepper aguachile and charred sweet corn is a great way to start your dinner. Follow it up with a Ricotta, Smoked Provolone, Caramelized Onions, and Pickled Mustard Seed Pizza made with pork belly and Brussels sprouts.
Flora Farms
The Field Kitchen of Flora Farms opted to make its own cuisine instead of selling its perfect produce to high-end restaurants, and so Flora’s Field Kitchen was born.
It’s now one of Cabo’s most popular restaurants, providing basic but delicious comfort food like morning omelets, wood-fired pizzas, and fried chicken (for sustainability reasons, no beef is served).
The farm’s soil is barely changed and fed by a top-down process, producing more than 100 different varieties of vegetables and herbs, while the poultry and pig, grown humanely on a 150-acre ranch nearby, are both hormone- and antibiotic-free.
All of the ice cream and sorbets are prepared in-house, and all of the ingredients come from Field Kitchen’s 25-acre organic farm.
Noah Japanese Food – Bar Mis Amores
Located at Calle Cuauhtémoc. Noah serves Japanese cuisine steeped in the ultra-fresh seafood you’d expect from this part of the globe. It’s an under-the-radar favorite among local cooks in the Pescadero/Todos Santos region.
They specialize in seafood, which is hand-picked by the head chef and brought in from Punta Lobos, a beach near Todos Santos, every day. All of your favorite sushi dishes are available, and the roll menu combines traditional Japanese sushi and sashimi with Mexican influences.
The Emma roll, which has tempura shrimp, avocado, fish, ginger, and serrano slices, and the Noah roll, which includes fish, avocado, cucumber, and grilled jalapeño, are also noteworthy. Here you can get the best seafood from an open kitchen where you watch prepare your meals.
Jazamango
Located at Fraccionamiento La Huerta. Jazamango provides guests the finest of the Cabo/Todos Santos cuisine scene, from its stringent usage of locally produced ingredients to its seasonally rotational beverages (the maracuja mojito is a favorite) and eclectic menu with a blend of Mexican and international tastes.
Pasta is baked from scratch every day, barbacoa is cooked every Sunday, and pop-up menus include specialized foods like “Vietnamese tostadas.”
The airy indoor-outdoor design, which is located in a low-slung contemporary structure tethered to a huge vegetable garden, manages to be beautiful without being pompous, while the desert surroundings and sunflower patch are delightfully lovely.
Agricole Cooperativa
An excellent coffee shop with the best strawberries for a desert setting. Located at the Los Cabos KM. An ideal place for dining options from a complete list of menu items. Additionally, it has the best coffee and a grocery store nearby if you wish to shop afterward.
The strawberries alone are worth the trek to Baja from Agricole, a farm and supermarket shop with a tiny range of cooked foods.
All of the food is cultivated organically on a piece of land behind the store by owner Lis Ibarra, whose enthusiasm for agriculture is evident in the ripeness, redness, and juiciness of the berries. Strawberry water, strawberry pie, strawberries with cream and chia seeds, and, of course, cartons of simple, fresh strawberries are among the specialty offerings.
There is also a lavender garden with a classic expression and course cartons.
La Raiz Tortilleria
Located at Cerro De Los Venados, this is one of the better Mexican restaurants. La Raiz is in the tortilla-making industry. They make the greatest quesadillas you can find, despite not being a restaurant.
Margarita, the lady in charge of the nixtamalization process, in which the maize is soaked, rinsed, and hulled before being turned into tortillas, is La Raiz’s secret ingredient.
Margarita and Christian, the proprietor of La Raiz, are both enthusiastic about tortillas and can give you a little tutorial on how they’re prepared while you watch your quesadillas take form.
Taller 17
One of the better literal farm restaurants in the Todos Santos area. Taller 17 is a little shop in Todos Santos that serves the finest coffee in town, as well as a surprising variety of beverages and fresh-from-the-oven pastries.
The coffee and espresso are robust, the Mexican hot chocolate is cinnamony to perfection, and the handmade kombucha is just right. They also provide soy and almond milk as well as other milk substitutes.
You can’t leave without trying one of the buttery blueberry scones, rich brownies (gluten-free version available), fruit pies, or buttery soft cookies.
For more info check out Calle Naranjos and Nili Blanck for more open flame dessert dishes. Local authorities led to the inclusion of restaurants like these to a special list in elegant Paseo De La Marina l31.
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