Playa del Carmen & Riviera Maya Dinning

A wide selection with many entertainment opportunities

Usually, most Riviera Maya Hotels and Resorts outside Playa del Carmen are All Inclusive with excellent food, dining facilities and several restaurants. Still, Playa del Carmen is the Mid Point of the Riviera Maya and you will moost probably go for sightseeing, shopping, entertainment or night life. You will be able to distinguish 3 types of places to hang out on. You will have the “Restaurant-Bar Category” where in addition to dinner, you will get music, drinks and a lot of fun, in places to watch people and be seen by people. Most will be on or connecting to “La Quinta Avenida” and open to watch the streaming flow of pretty and happy people, enjoying a very cool evening. You will also have Restaurant, Bars and Clubs with a permitted “Bare foot Shoe Code” fore they are directly on the edge of the beach. The third grouping and very important, are the clubs and Discos which get going after 11:00PM as La Quinta Avenida bars smooth down.

On the south end of Fifth Avenue, inside the Paseo del Carmen shopping mall area, you have Luxury Brands offering their Collection Items such as Benetton, Guess, Diesel and World famous duty free perfumes at Ultrafemme. As to Restaurants you find Rolandi’s First Class Italian with Seafood, Meat and Pasta Restaurant, La Bodeguita del Medio  a Cuban restaurant with Music and Salsa Lessons as the one in Havana Historic District, Carlos & Charlie’s, a Mexican place for people who like it loud. Close by you find, on the Ferry Pier side Señor Frog's, another loud fun place. As you go back North along Fifth Avenue, you will see Roof Bar & Restaurant. On the next block and across La Quita Avenida,. you’ll find next, between 6TH and 8TH Streets, Bourbon Street blues restaurant bar as well as Fah bar with live music on the same block. There are over 200 Restaurants in Playa del Carmen you can pick quality, taste, price and different types of cuisine. The best ones fill up first with a lot of people.

Rolandi’s - First Class Italian Seafood, Meat and Pasta Restaurant. Located at the Southern end of 5Th avenue inside Paseo del Carmen Mall on the exit to 10th Street.  Ph 984 803 41 21.

La Palette -  French Restaurant Sea Food, Steaks & Even Escargots. Moderatly priced, Most people very impressed not   8TH Street close to 5th Avenue. 984-879-4802.

Yaxche - Mayan Cuisine Restaurant  inspired by their cooking traditions, as well as traditional entrees from Yucatán. Located on 8th Street beween 10th  and 5th Avenue.

La Palapa de Hemingway - A Cuban Caribbean cuisine restaurant and Bar excellent sea food and Caribbean Specialties. Its Bar and setting is inspired on Havana Hemingway Bar. Located on 5th Avenue between 12th and 14th Street. PH 984 803 0003.

Agora at La Tortuga Hotel - Italian Cuisine, full menu with Sea Food, located Avenue 10 at the crossing of 14th street, a block away from 5th Avenue,  PH  (984) 873 1484.

La Kalaka - 4th Street between 15th and 20th Av. Specialty is Italian with good comments on its select menu. Ph 984 113 1659.

El Fogon - On 5th Avenue and 4th Street, a Real Mexican Taco restaurant, where people repeat during their stay due to taste and good prices.

La Destilería - On North 5th Avenue on the corner of 26th Street a First Class Haute Cuisine Mexican Restaurant with explanations on special assorted. Tequila Selection well reputed. Ph (984)8031108.

Il Barreto - On the Northern area of 5th Ave and 26th  street offers Italian with good good pasta and specialties has been prased by Itlaian Nationals. PH  984-8030257.

La Pumarola Restaurant - with daily made pasta and Genuine Italian Specialties Located on 38Th Street on the Northern End of 5th Avenue. Well recommended.

La Pesca - With catch of the day and best Mexican Cuisine for Fish and Sea Food Restaurant. Prices Moderate. When staying on or Close to Constituyentes Ave, go west and in front of Mega Super Market you will have a nice sea food treat.