La Buena Vida

Akumal


A popular beachside restaurant-bar with sand floors, swings and a drink menu with gimmicky cocktail names such as 'The Viagra,' which offers you 'a stiff one.' The restaurant (mains M$85 to M$240) is very good here as well, with popular items such as the Tic kin xic fish (grilled fish in a Yucatecan sauce, M$160).


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