We took a nice nap after a pretty busy morning, after which it was time to head off to an early (430pm) dinner. I had tried getting reservations at the very popular Contramar, but was unable to. I then switched to Contramar's sister restaurant Entremar and could only get an early dinner reservation. Even though I thought we'd done enough walking for the day, the Missus disagreed, so we decided to walk the 2 1/2 miles to the restaurant. To be honest, the weather was very pleasant making this a nice walk.
We arrived at the restaurant, located in the ritzy Polanco district and couldn't believe how busy it was!
There was a bit of a queue to get in. As I stood in line, aggressive "Abuela's" pushed their way past me! This was such a change from the usual polite and well mannered folks I was used to in CDMX. I guess the potential of seafood will drive some folks to this!
Anyway, it wasn't a big deal and we had reservations. We were escorted upstairs and I gotta say the clientele upstairs were pretty tony…….
The staff worked so hard and were very gracious. We placed our order and just chilled out.
The first item to arrive was the Ceviche Contramar.
The fish was very tender, the marinating liquid had a perfect balance of sour with just enough salt to make it enjoyable. Very nice!
We didn't enjoy the Aguachile Verde Contramar as much.
The shrimp was quite tough and fishy and the "sauce" didn't have enough citrus tones for our taste.
The one dish we were looking forward to was the Pescado a la Talla, red snapper that is butterflied, sauced, and grilled. We chose the "Contramr" version, which had half of the fish rubbed with a red adobo sauce and the other half with parsley (De la Barrita) based rub.
This came with some really tasty black beans. Surprisingly, at least for us, we really enjoyed the parsley rub more! It had nice garlic tones; some cumin, and you could really taste the mild, almost sweet flavor of the snapper, which was grilled perfectly! Don't get me wrong; that adobo rub had some nice smokiness and spice; but you really couldn't enjoy the great quality of the fish as much.
Overall; the Pescado a la Talla made the meal a memorable one and we'll gladly return.
Entremar
Hegel 307
Polanco V Secc, 11560 Ciudad de México, Mexico
I enjoyed that fish so much that when the Missus suggested walking back to our room I readily agreed!
Not having to be anywhere allows you to enjoy and notice things more.
Like this restaurant with a familiar name.
And this bar where I guess you might be able to "Break on through to the other side"?
It was still quite early, so we decided to stop for a cocktail and a snack…..we chose another place we'd been to a couple of times; Temporal. Where we sat downstairs at the bar area.
I got my favorite cocktail here; the Suerte de Dragon ("Lucky Dragon").
Sadly, this Mezcal and beer based cocktail tasted watered down and the usual spiciness of it was really muted.
As a snack we got our favorite menu item at Temporal; the Gulf Crab Sopes.
Which were smaller then on previous visits; the sopes were really gummy, and there was too much filler and not as much crab as on our previous visits.
Bummer…….
Restaurante Temporal
Saltillo 1, Hipódromo, Cuauhtémoc
06140 CDMX, Mexico
We slept well and got up early the next morning.
Our next stop was going to be San Miguel de Allende and we had hired the amazing Aaron Cruz to drive us there.
Since it was going to be quite the drive; we headed to another familiar stop close by; Panadería Almuerzos for a Croissant and then got some coffee from Mercado Condesa.
I've often said that the croissants at Panadería Almuerzos are our favorite outside of France….and this delivered.
And the coffee wasn't bad either.
Panadería Almuerzos
Av. Vicente Suárez 64A
Colonia Condesa, CDMX, Mexico
Cafe Toscano
Calle Michoacan sn Mercado Condesa
Hipódromo Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX, Mexico
Breakfast completed, we headed back to our room to finish packing and check out. Aaron would be arriving soon to take us to our next stop; San Miguel de Allende.
Thanks for stopping by!
nice croissant
Funny there’s a Pho King there to.
It was quite good Kat!
Yes, I got a laugh out of that ST.
That fish and those croissants! Thanks for the good and delicious memories! Need to get back to CDMX soon. Glad you guys had a good time.
Hope you’re able to get back to CDMX soon RD!