miércoles, 29 de diciembre de 2010

CENACOLO: Restaurant Review

Restaurant Name:  Cenacolo

Date Visited: December 23, 2010; 7pm.

Address and Phone Number:  Plaza Peninsula on Bonampak . Cancun.

Restaurant/Menu Link: http://www.cenacolo.com.mx/

What We Ate:
-          Drinks:
o   Limonada: Good.
o   Wine: Excellent Wine list. I ordered the special of the day without asking for the price…100 pesos for the glass…but WOW! A good choice. Good recommendation from the waitress.
-          Appetizer
o   Ensalada Caprese: Miss Claudia had this and she looked like she enjoyed it. Cute presentation with sort of a round “baseball” type hunk of the cheese with little cherry tomatoes, basil and oil.
-          Main Course
o   Sombreros Verdes: ZOMG. No leftovers here! A truly savory dish and homemade as well. (The menu has a whole section of homemade pastas…definitely start there!)
o   Canalones de espinaca: Miss Jessica had this. It looked good but I should have asked her for a bite. She saved half for her husband. Aw.
-          Dessert
o   None: On a budget folks…I promise to update when we go back! (Which we will…)

Service: The service was nice. Timing was good and everyone was polite. Our waitress was young and seemed a bit shy, but she really put herself out there and spoke to us all in English! She knew a good deal about the wine list and when she didn’t know she offered to go check for us.

Ambiance (Décor, lighting, music, seating): The lighting was soft and the décor is quite classy. We sat on the lovely patio, which was surrounded by a curtain-like enclosure due to the rain an odd chilly Cancun weather. The patio overlooks Bonampak and even though this restaurant is in a plaza with less “high class” restaurants, I felt very “VIP.” Cenacolo offers inside seating as well. There is also a nice wine bar. Plating was tasteful and refined.

Crowd:  When we arrived there was a table of 10 smokin’ hottie businessmen finishing up a business meeting. Double eye-candy…us and them. There was a table of a few glam/snootie women with lots of bling and then a couple that had just come in from Christmas shopping. All in all a professional/classy crowd. As we were finishing up a table of Americans came in. Whoa! Martinis all around for those folks… As a teacher, I didn’t feel out of place, though I was happy that I wasn’t dressed too shabby, not that it should matter.

Note: This restaurant actually offers normal portions. No supersizing here. So if you have an all-you-can-eat sorta husband like I do, order him an appetizer…and a salad.

Will I go back? SI!



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