| Puerto Vallarta Restaurant Reviews |
| El Calamar Adventurero Cheap seafood! Corner of Aquiles Serdan & Constitucion, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Serving lunch & afternoon - closed Sunday |
Puerto Vallarta Restaurant Review:
El Calamar Adventurero is an inexpensive seafood joint, popular with Mexicanos and
knowledgeable Gringos alike. It's half restaurant, half taco stand.
SETTING - Old Vallarta, conveniently right across the street from the big neighborhood
grocery. If you need an American-style grocery store (just much smaller), this is the place.
(They also have an ATM near the cash registers.)
FOOD at El Calamar - This will be short & quick: Ceviches (heaped on laid-flat corn tortillas),
tacos (mostly seafood), quesadillas, shrimp cocktails, and hamburgers. It tastes even better
when you find out how little it costs (like maybe $1 per item). Quality food and cold beer, too!
They might take credit cards, but I seriously doubt it. But you can pay in coin.
AMBIANCE - "Go native" and grab a stool at the counter between a tourist and a local worker.
Watch the hustle and bustle in the open-air kitchen. Or there's a dining area with tables (at
the right in the photo above). This place is relaxed.
HOURS - Lunch and afternoon only, like 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
BOTTOM LINE - You don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy a good meal in P.V. Try El
Calamar if you're in the neighborhood.
El Calamar Adventurero is an inexpensive seafood joint, popular with Mexicanos and
knowledgeable Gringos alike. It's half restaurant, half taco stand.
SETTING - Old Vallarta, conveniently right across the street from the big neighborhood
grocery. If you need an American-style grocery store (just much smaller), this is the place.
(They also have an ATM near the cash registers.)
FOOD at El Calamar - This will be short & quick: Ceviches (heaped on laid-flat corn tortillas),
tacos (mostly seafood), quesadillas, shrimp cocktails, and hamburgers. It tastes even better
when you find out how little it costs (like maybe $1 per item). Quality food and cold beer, too!
They might take credit cards, but I seriously doubt it. But you can pay in coin.
AMBIANCE - "Go native" and grab a stool at the counter between a tourist and a local worker.
Watch the hustle and bustle in the open-air kitchen. Or there's a dining area with tables (at
the right in the photo above). This place is relaxed.
HOURS - Lunch and afternoon only, like 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
BOTTOM LINE - You don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy a good meal in P.V. Try El
Calamar if you're in the neighborhood.
