Restaurant Bar Cana-Nah - Mérida

Fixed price menu, soup or salade + main dish + desserts. 3 types of soup, main dishes are grilled chicken or pork. We took sopa de lima and sopa de verdura and the food was OK but not delicious. Very refreshing chaya drinks. The place for one visit, on the way or way back from Uxmal. They do not accept credit cards.

This restaurant is on way to or from the ruins at Uxmal. The food was mediocre, the service is slow and otherwise poor. Fixed price menu with 3 courses. 575 / 650 but not many alternatives. Set up is for tour groups. Our tour guide brought us here but if it were up to me, I would not return due to the food and service.

Food was OK and part of our tour not a bad lunch but not one I'd necessarily travel for if not on a tour. I have been told the pickled onion resturant which is close by is fabulous.

Cana-Nah is located about 4.5 km north from the Uxmal ruins on the left of the road 261 to Merida.The restaurant is designed primarily to serve lunch to mass tourists, so do not expect high cuisine. However, it is pretty good nevertheless and my family and I had a very nice lunch with one of the best Chaya drinks we had in Yucatan.We were fortunate to be there in low season slightly earlier in the day than the group tourists that apparently are the main targets of the restaurant, so we had the whole place (and staff) for ourselves, it was calm and quite inside.The restaurant has a choice of a few (3-4 if I remember correctly) lunch sets, quite varied and nicely served. All of the dishes we had looked and tasted well. The kitchen is generally local and uncomplicated (which is very good).The chaya drink (often served in the Uxmal area) was great - it was our first chaya in Yucatan, but none of the ones we had in the following days - although good - was as good as the one at Cana-Nah.The prices are in the lower range.In my opinion they serve much better food than the theoretically much better hotel restaurants around the ruins. Admittedly, there is at least one better restaurant in the area (El Chac Mool in Santa Elena), but it is also much farther from the archaeological site. Cana-Nah seems to be a very good tradeoff between the distance from the ruins (5 min drive) and the quality of the food.

After touring the ruins of Uxmal, our guide suggested this restaurant just a short ride up the road. We arrived and a large tour bus was there eating. The menu is listed on the wall and essentially they offer main Yucatean dishes like pibil, cochinitia, alapranche. They do offer alcohol beverages but we enjoyed the local Chaya beverage. For 3 people our bill came to 375 pesos. The have a swimming pool but no hotel so if you want to cool off before or after eating you can enjoy. The waiters were attentive and I would suggest you try this when in the area. In all the years traveling the Yucatan, we find the best places are off the regular routes that most tourist travel. Even if you cannot speak Spanish, once you enter a eating establishment, they will attend to you. Just make sure you always have pesos because those smaller places do not process credit cards.