There are only a handful of restaurants in Akumal, and a few more across the highway in the Pueblo (where I unhesitatingly recommend Tequilaville) which I suppose explains this place’s continued survival. We have eaten there a few times over the last 18 years, always...hoping for a better experience than the last, which has usually been two or three years earlier, but it never changes. It is absolutely maddening. Guys, please get your sit together and take advantage of your setting and location!
Tonight after ten days in Akumal we finally cracked and gave it another chance.
Indifferent servers sitting around playing with their phones should have been enough warning. I had to interrupt them to request seating. Then, in short order, and before menus had even arrived, our waiter mocked my 22-year-old son for not drinking alcohol, and tried to hustle us into taking a fishing trip with him tomorrow. He then delivered drinks and menus and returned to his phone.
The food was ok, perfectly edible, but not great. As we walked back to our hotel Sidcup minor commented it was the worst he had eaten since our arrival, and he was right.
Aside from Tequilaville, I particularly recommend Lol Ha (superb ceviche, ask for mixed, including octopus, which is not on the menu) and Loncheria Akumalito for breakfast or lunch.More