La Destilería

Wow… 2 shots of tequila. 2 apps. 2 entrees. 2 desserts. $ 76 american. so much amazing food. Guac made in front of you. tequila cheese is amazing. fajitas were great and over flowing with goodness. We got a banana crêpe with vanilla ice cream and their flan. Both were absolutely amazing.

We ended up at La Destilería looking for a tequila tour for my husband. The tour itself in terms of looks was just ok as it’s visually represented inside the restaurant however our «guide» was super informative! They gave us each a drink along the way. He got the Reservas Especiales flight of tequila and was pretty happy with it. They gave us a free appetizer each afterward. The food was really flavorful. The restaurant was pretty empty at the time however we would have loved to go back and will try to visit again next time we are in Cancun

Our family of 10, ranging in age from 6 to 80, all enjoyed our evening. We chose this restaurant based on Unilocal reviews, plus the live mariachi band. We were not disappointed. Food was delicious, service was about average (for Mexico), and the band was most enjoyable. We ordered a bottle of Mexican Shiraz (Casa Madero) and we all thought it was awesome. The atmosphere was casual and fun. Our dining venue will add to our Cancun experience. Great evening.

Always a must for us every year we visit Cancún. I can’t say enough goodness about this place. The tequila bar is awesome, mainly because of the service and experience. The food is awesome. I always have the Molcajete bowl.

Brought the kids to Cancun for the first time and had to try this place after it came highly recommended by our limo driver. It did not disappoint. Traditional Mexican experience from the food to the atmosphere to the mariachi band that performs.

La Destileria was located across the street from Villas Marlin where we were staying. We don’t recommend Villas Marlin, but we did enjoy La Destileria. The food was fresh with flavors of Mexico that tickled the palate. Lovely salad, plantanos, avocadoes with mangos, distinctive tastes. The margarita was delicious. They offer tequila tastings as well. We didn’t realize they had an outdoor patio over the lagoon because it was dark and late when we arrived, so make sure to ask. This is a popular restaurant. Reservations may be advised.

We took the tequila tour today and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Expectations weren’t high for a cheap midday tour and we were blown away! Our guide was an absolute expert and provided great information before guiding us through a tasting of some fabulous tequilas. The «welcome drink» was absolutely delicious and the provided appetizers were some of the best we’ve had in the area; we’re now planning to head back for a full meal at some point. Don’t hesitate to stop by this place!

This is a fun place if you are looking for real Mexican food and fun. Fresh guacamole made at your table, bull shot steak also cooked at table, was good.
My favorite was dessert, Mexican coffee with shot of tequila, tres leches, Carmel
Flan hit the spot. The mariachi band made for a great night. Worth a try!

Great dinner overlooking the water and watching the sunset. Our waiter Rueben was fantastic! He entertained our kids and made our experience so good we returned the following night. Great margaritas, mariachi band, Molcajete and Guacamole. Highly recommended!

We had one of her best meals ever Saturday night here sitting on the terrace overlooking the water

We took a cab here, amazing fish the salmon and red snapper were both well done. Guac was good as well. Really enjoyed trying the different tequilla and of course their margaritas we on point. A bit touristy not a true authentic spot but you will enjoy your meal.

Best restaurant we had the pleasure of eating at in Cancun. Food was great, service was even better. The entirety of the ambience was genuine and pleasant and the staff is there to serve. Mariachi band was just the cherry on top. I had fried fish, dessert was even better than the entrée.

Good food, although on the smaller side. Family of four had our bill right at $ 70 before tip. I ordered the salmon which was cook well but didn’t have any taste. My wife and small kid shared the Mexican stew with shrimp and sausage e and beans and cheese. She definitely liked it. We have the spinach salad for appetizer that was delish and refreshing and my other boy had the shrimp tostada.

We go here multiple times every time we visit Cancun, great food, view and service. I highly recommend the sopes appetiser, molcajete entrees and the cilantro pescado. They’re always great with the kids too. Try a tequila anejo, just make sure you sip it!

We just had an amazing lunch. My daughter is Vegan and she was able to come away full! Table-​side guacamole was delicious. Margaritas were superb. Lunch was great. Service very good. Much better than hotel food.

I’m not sure about this one.
Maybe it should be a day place. And do tequila flights.
At night, not so much.
Sat on the patio, and there was about 12 waiters on staff standing around and not any of them asking about what we wanted or providing any service. They were standing there staring, but I had to flag one of the 12 plus down to order. And to order a drink.
Overall. I don’t know. So-​so. Chips/​salsa/​tuna were ok. Meal, ok. Overall a strange experience of a lot of waiters and no service. I guess I can’t really say anything else.

Food was very average tasting and not cheap. Nice ambiance inside. There is seating outside too, but the wait was much longer.

Popular, long standing spot. Food is great, easy to get to by bus or Taxi, and servers are attentive and friendly. Great tequila menu. I was there with my mother and father. We got an appetizer (Shrimp Quesadilla) and I had the Mole Poblano. Mom and Dad both also had drinks and entrees and we still managed to get out for under 70 USD. Recommended.

I have to dine here every time I visit Cancun. This is a nice restaurant & not too pricey. Sits on the lagoon side and it’s a stand alone restaurant, with a tequila gift shop. Just like any other restaurant in Cancun the staff is very pleasant and accommodating.
The dishes are more authentic here and they also have molcajete! Great drink menu and your meals are started off with tortilla chips, mild salsa and some kind of pâté, which is actually really good. You can get table side guacamole for a really good price!
I always get the Ensalada Oaxaca (Oaxacan salad) it’s so light and fresh. However I always change up my main dish. I always end up eating a lot here because of the AMAZING FOOD so I never have room for dessert. I can honestly say everything I’ve had here is DELICIOUS! The arrachera tacos are INCREDIBLE. So tender, juicy and seasoned so well.
They have a 7 piece mariachi group which goes around the restaurant in the evening. Come here for a more authentic Mexican dining experience!

This restaurant will not disappoint you. We went in expecting just a quick dinner to finish our first day in Cancun and we will in love with the place!!!
We are eating here again tomorrow night as we promised to our new friends. They go out of their way to make sure your having a great time and the food was authentic and delicious.
This place goes in our special list of restaurants that we will frequent.

Read about this place on Travel + Leisure and on Unilocal so thought to check it out.
Came in for a late lunch. Had an amazing tasty Grand Mariner Margarita to start!
Instead of an appetizer my husband and I decided to split an Oaxaca salad. It was very refreshing and delicious starter. Plenty for two people. We told the waiter we were splitting the salad and they kindly served the salad split for the both of us. Glad we ordered a salad over an appetizer.
For our entrees, I had the shrimp molcajete. The restaurant has different molcajetes… steak, chicken, or shrimp. It comes with black beans, chorizo, cheese, cactus, and avocado. Plus, you get your choice of flour or corn tortillas to make your own tacos. The shrimp molcajete was fantastic! Hands down the best entrée I have had in Cancun! My husband was jealous of my dish. He had the chile rellenos. The chile rellenos were good but not as tasty as my fantastic molcajete!
For dessert, they had a number of desserts to choose from but come on you’re in Cancun so you should have the flan. The flan was awesomely delicious! It had hot caramel and almond bits on top. Yummy! Even my husband had a couple of bites even though he’s not a fan. I think this flan converted him.
The service was great! The waiters worked as a team! They were very attentive.
The price compared to the other restaurants in the area was a little higher but the quality in food and service called for it. A definite must go to if you want a proper molcajete! Plus, they have the largest selection of tequila! Hence their name… La Destileria.

We arrived right as they opened for lunch, so we pretty much had the whole restaurant to ourselves. The service was impeccable and our waiter was so friendly: cracked jokes, answered all our questions about food and drink, and recommended some fabulous food.
My favorites of the whole meal were the appetizers. We’d ordered the fried cheese with salsa verde, and when it arrived, the server saw how bewildered we were by the giant fried rectangle, so he cut up the cheese and built the soft taco for us. It was so rich and delicious! We also ordered the sopes and they were little palm-​sized pieces of heaven. Thin, round, toasted pieces of… bread? Covered with a spread of black beans, then topped with the most succulent pieces of pork? chicken? I forget, some avocado and picked onion.
I had the tortilla soup for 90 pesos and it was delicious. The chicken was a bit dry, but the mole poblano was delicious. The fish was also very dry, despite the sauce they slathered it in. The waiter recommended a… malocojete? It came sizzling hot in a stone bowl/​stand and was probably the best entrée we had.
The tequila jade was great, but the tamarind magarita was only faintly tamarind in flavor.

Amazing food and fabulous service! We attended a dinner for 110 people and they did a fabulous job. The Mocajete was to the best food I have had in Mexico! Don’t miss this place!

If I am ever back by the hotel zone in Cancun, I would stop back here. The food is good and the views are beautiful!
Food
Good food. Nice-​sized portions. Large/​diverse menu. Definitely recommend the table-​side guac. Hard to screw that up! And, it’s yummy! They don’t do chips and salsa. They bring out chips and this spicy dipping sauce. For the soups, our table had the Destilería Soup and the Dry Noodles. Both were very good. Between the two, I would HIGHLY recommend the Dry Noodles. So different… and very tasty! For my main mean, I had the Chiles Rellenos. It was fine, but not amazing. My friend who went with some chicken dish. I just hopped on their website, and of the life of me cannot figure out which dish it was! It was OUTSTANDING. It was almost a Mexican version of chicken parmesan. The chicken was so tender.
Atmosphere
Awesome atmosphere. One side of the restaurant overlooks the lagoon and has a beautiful view of the sunset. Plus, the inside décor is neat, kind of rustic.
Servers
Friendly. Attentive. Accommodating. And, a mariachi band that was AWESOME!
If you’re in the area — make this a stop!

Huge fan of the food and view not that great a fan of the waiters.
Our receptionist at Krystal Grand recommended this place and it was perfect. We were seated outside and had a stunning view and the food is just unforgettable.
For drinks:
tamarind margarita — i couldn’t really taste the tamarind
For appetizers:
Fried cheese in green sauce — very yum. i wish i knew how to make that sauce
For entrée:
Molcajete de Pollo
It came in a stone bowl piping hot and had chorizo, chicken, cactus, avacado and this stew that you use to fill up your tortilla and eat it. Almost like a fajita.
I never knew this was even a thing till i came here but was so yum i wish every mexican restaurant offered it.
Everything was very flavorful and just perfect.
The waiters were a little shady and wnated to take pictures with us girls (we were 5 girls) from their phones which was just weird.
I would go back for the food but will make sure the waiters are not weird.

A friend had recommended this restaurant to me prior to my trip and I’m glad I had a chance to dine here. It’s a tequila distillery and restaurant and is located in the heart of the hotel tourist zone. The food/​service was stellar! We got guacamole made at our table, and I’ll tell you was it fresh. There is something truly special about guac made in Mexico, it’s just the best.
We all ordered off the molcajetes menu per my friends recommendation and I’m glad I had a chance to experience it. When the food arrived it was streaming hot in the brick and mortar bowl. The dish was excellent the shrimp I had was cooked to perfection and paired with avocado, beans, cactus and a few other things. Mind you it was my first time trying cactus and I was in love. It tastes similar to a green pepper but with more flavor. If you haven’t tried molcajetes this is the place to do it, they have got it down to a science. My friends also, were throughly impressed with their food. One of them enjoyed it so much he went back a second time that week.
Mariachi band came to our table and a few others; we gave them a few bucks and they played a song for us. Pair that with your margarita and it was really quite enjoyable, the band makes the experience more enjoyable Mexican then jumping beans!
Make sure you phone ahead for a reservation on the outdoor patio. You can watch the sunset over the bay from here quite comfortably.

It fits the bill as touristy restaurant attempting not to be too touristy. Not a cheesy as La Parrilla, I find restaurants like this almost too serious to be enjoyable. Part classy restaurant, part uncomfortable touristy display of entertainment with asking you for tips overtly at the table.
Some people enjoy this but not myself. I’d rather have full blown ridiculousness or quiet, peaceful dinner.
Luckily their food is decent to good. The margaritas are VERY good, however. Alas, the prices are similar to Cenacolo or local Peruvian Steakhouses without the same bang for buck.
Bring newbies to Mexico here if you’d like or children who might get shy/​scared of the more playful cheesy venues (i.e. big yellow bull mascot at La Parrilla). Otherwise, there’s better use of your time.

Very nice food, ignore the cheap people and the haters. Totally worth it… Get a table on the patio and enjoy yourself.
A++

«Prohibida la entrada a toda persona amuinada o bronquera, aquí reina el buen humor»
Es la leyenda con la que te encuentras antes de entrar al restaurante…
La primera ocasión que fui a este restaurante fue a celebrar a mi madre, en su día, yo no vivía en Cancún en ese tiempo, fue una etapa en la que estuve viviendo en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis. y vine de vacaciones.
El concepto de restaurante museo en el tema destilería de agave, es muy interesante, sus platos, algunos elaborados con un alma tequilera y un sazón mexicano muy especial, lo hace muy exclusivo. El restaurante tiene una atmósfera tranquila y muy amena, ambiente mexicano no escandaloso ni está el mariachi ahí, pero se escucha buena música Mexicana.
Sinceramente me parece caro para el tipo de comida, y es que no es exótico y esa ocasión los platos eran mas cercanos a la cocina tradicional, muy rico, pero sin justificar precios altos. Evidentemente pagas el lugar y el servicio mas que los platos, a mi apreciación personal.
La sopa de tortilla en crema de frijol bien sazonado es muy buena y su especialidad de los molcajetes con queso panela asado, nopalitos, chorizo, sus salsitas molcajeteadas y previamente asadas, tortillas a mano… puedes escoger de Rib Eye, arrachera, mixta de arrachera con pechuga de pollo o de camarones con las mismas guarniciones, te dicen que puede ser para dos… mmmmm no lo creo… amenos que seas tú y tu esposa esté a dieta…
Esa ocasión yo pedí un guisado de puerco adobado con nopales asados y el adobo tenia un toque de tequila, creo que por ese toque de tequila estaba tan caro… pero, lo re diseñe después en casa y lo logré, me gustó tanto que hice una recreación del platillo en casa y lo llamo adobo a la destilería… identifico los ingredientes y los hago en casa, no me fusilo las recetas porque además, en ningún lado te lo dicen, es solo olfato y sentido del gusto afinado.

La zona Hotelera de nuestra ciudad, tiene una amplia gama de lugares en los cuales probar gastronomía mexicana. Estos lugares son evidentemente turísticos donde no se puede apreciar el verdadero sabor de las recetas mexicanas.
Sin embargo existe un lugar diferente. Ubicada muy próxima a la plaza kukulcan y rodeada de la zona media y más relajada de la zona hotelera, La destilería es un lugar hermoso con una terraza en la laguna y con unos platillos mexicanos, creativos y que dan propuestas de sabores nuevos. Tienen un curso de cata de tequila y todo gira alrededor de dicho aguardiente por obvias razones de su nombre.
Es un lugar donde el menú esta creado para poderlo combinar con aguardientes y darle un toque diferente a tu paladar al combinar el tequila o el mezcal con unas fajitas llenas de sabor.
Les recomienden se sienten en la barra tequilera de la entrada y pregunten por sus clases de tequilas y el «taste».

Restaurante gourmet 100% mexicano con un estilo único e innovador que atrae a todo extranjero y todo visitante nacional al mismo tiempo. Ubicado muy cerca de Plaza Kukulcan y Plaza La Isla en la zona hotelera de Cancún. Este lugar transpira tequila y mezcal, como su nombre lo dice «La Destileria» lugar comúnmente conocido para la creación de tequila y mezcales procedente de Tequila Jalisco.
En este restaurante puedes encontrar especialidades mexicanas con cortes hasta cenas con langosta y mariscos de la mas alta calidad. Excelente opción para visitar con la familia, para grupos o tour de extranjeros. Música en vivo de todos los estilos obviamente de los estados representativos de la republica mexicana como lo son el mariachi, el Son jarocho entre otros. Altamente recomendado para comer y degustar las mejores muestras gastronómicas y destilados de Mexico.

Delish!
Get a margarita on the rocks! Don’t worry about the ice if your an american.
Food legit. Coming again next time in town !

I had have the opportunity to eat here twice and the experience has always been good.
The atmosphere is great and the eating area overlooking the bay is perfect.
There is a small gift shop as well that has items from the distillery. Enjoy.