Cafe Chocolate

Bienvenido loyal reader. Please join Bruce and Mary as they visit the restaurante scene once again. As usual for those of you who prefer to view these posts from the original blog-site, please click here.

Funny how you get into routines and then out of them. When Cafe Chocolate opened three years ago, we checked them out. We were impressed, so just beating  the deadline, we got them listed in the Living in Merida book, a fund raising project that Mary and I participated in. We went there a lot, particularly enjoying their breakfast buffets, which started off incredibly cheap,at  49P. And even now they are only 63P and the dishes are very Yucatecan, it’s the real deal when it comes to the local breakfast cuisine. But then we just kind of forgot about the place until a couple of months ago when we had some time to kill, waiting for Geronides to finish up fixing my computer, and we remembered that Cafe Chocolate was only a block away so we stopped in and happily discovered it was happy hour and the 29P beers were two for one. Well those sorts of things have a way of lodging in my memory so we put Cafe Chocolate back on the menu, stopping in for dinner on a Saturday evening.

Cafe Chocolate, a la esquina de, at the corner of Calles 60 and 49, Centro.

This is the front room. You can see the original artwork on the walls, all of it for sale. Most of the furniture in the front room consists of antiques which are also for sale.

The breakfast buffet steamers are set up right in front of this large aquarium in the back room.

The bar crew. The bar area is directly across the back room from the aquarium.

Mary forges ahead to secure a garden table while I fool with the camera.

Mary is relaxing in the garden area.

The view from our garden table.

The lovely and shy Lizz takes our order.

Oops, it was bad timing for a garden table, the rain came and we needed to relocate to the back room, straight ahead.

Our food arrives. On the left is my Pasta Bolognesa. Strangely it was not on the menu but readily available when we asked for it and it is the best I have ever had. Mary very much enjoyed her Pasta Alfredo, as well. The little bowl above Mary’s dish is Chile de Arbol, be sure to ask for this incredible condiment.

Cafe Chocolate isn’t just for beer and grub. On a prior visit, our friend Nancy enjoyed this awesome whipped chocolate/coffee delight.

I don’t know why I think this is so cool, but I always get a charge out of getting la cuenta, the check, in this little treasure chest. Oh, the damages? Well we were lucky to get in on their Dia de la Revolucion (November 20th) weekend promo with everything 15% off, so for a couple beers apiece and the pasta meals it came to 183P, about $13.50USD. Que bueno!

Thanks for visiting, gentle readers. Bruce appreciates all comentarios and local readers, please feel free to share your experiences at Cafe Chocolate or any other restaurante in town. Hasta proximo Domingo!