El Recoveco

Zacatecas


'Cheap and good' is how the locals describe this long-standing, cafeteria-style eatery. This means buffet style (as much as you can eat and as many plates as you like) and tasty enough Mexican fare that holds no surprises but is outstanding value. Come hungry.


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1. Jardín Juárez

0.13 MILES

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2. Museo Francisco Goitia

0.2 MILES

The Museo Francisco Goitia displays work by several 20th-century Zacatecan artists, including some evocative paintings of indigenous people by Goitia …

3. Ex-Templo de San Agustín

0.2 MILES

The Ex-Templo de San Agustín was built for Augustinian monks in the 17th century. During the 19th-century anticlerical movement, the church became a…

4. Museo Manuel M. Ponce

0.23 MILES

This small five-roomed museum is a touching tribute to the musician, Manuel M Ponce, a well-traveled, intellectual Mexican, whose best-known score…

5. Museo Zacatecano

0.25 MILES

Zacatecas' former mint (Mexico's second-biggest in the 19th century) now houses the wonderful Museo Zacatecano. Spread over a number of rooms, this…

6. Mercado González Ortega

0.31 MILES

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7. Museo Pedro Coronel

0.33 MILES

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8. Templo de Santo Domingo

0.34 MILES

With a bubbly stone facade, the tarnished pink Templo de Santo Domingo, in a plazuela of the same name, is in a baroque style, with fine gilded altars and…