Lunch ideas for day trip to Uxmal

[Nunu]

We'll be renting a car and driving from Merida to Uxmal in August. Anyone have some recommendations for places for lunch? Doesn't need to be fancy, just authentic. Oh, and hey thanks!

[hdawson]

There's a real good local place on the right side of the highway going towards Santa Elaina. The skirt steak fajitas are to die for. Just a few miles from Uxmal. I seem to think the bldg was blue.

[Nunu]

There's a real good local place on the right side of the highway going towards Santa Elaina. The skirt steak fajitas are to die for. Just a few miles from Uxmal. I seem to think the bldg was blue.

 

That'll work. Thanks!

[hdawson]

Skirt steak is pretty unknown in the US but is an excellent piece of beef. It's a pretty small portion of a cow. Marinates very well and fast cooking makes it perfect for fajitas.

[Traveler353]

Another great local dish is Cochinita pibil. It is slow roasted pork that has been marinated in bitter orange juice and local spices, wraped in banana leaf and slow roasted underground on hot stones. It is an authentic Yucatan food not to be confused with Tex/Mex that so many tourist think is Mexican.

[hdawson]

Also pollo pabil. (chicken)

[airlink diva]

Yall making me hungry!! I'm making notes of the dishes!!!

[hdawson]

Traveler makes an excellent and important note. TexMex is not Mexican.

[Traveler353]

Traveler makes an excellent and important note. TexMex is not Mexican.

The other day on of the nurses at work was telling me how much he liked Mexican food and then ask me if I wanted anything from Taco Bell. I think I hurt his feelings by laughing so much.:D