Catedral Restaurante & Bar

Delicious tamale with mol, garnel and live music with lunch. meat was a bit dry, otherwise delicious. good atmosphere

The eating was delicious and the atmosphere was really incredible, but what really set this place over the top for us was the personal service and attention we received while we were there. we have almost mentioned that we are celebrating a special occasion and our waiter...Milo has wanted us a special song that the live musician played while they released a free dessert! we would highly recommend this restaurant (especially ask for milo) and will visit us again at our next visit in oaxaca

Beautifully presented traditional Oaxacan dishes that are just as delicious. my shrimp tacos were super, nabeby’s tylloin with traditional corn mix was for dying and of course the craft oaxacan sorbet was a great cap for our wonderful meal.

Twenty six years ago, when it opened, Catedral might have been the talk of the town. Today it's a has been, an overpriced set piece, as cliched as Mama Leone's once was in New York City. But where to begin as there was so much...wrong? The place has one attractive, open-air room, and maybe a lower level lounge that could also be cool but was dark and not open. Next to that there is a small pedestrian room, like a room in a school, which leads to a large, overly bright room that looks, even 26 years ago, like it would have been outdated. They put me in the small school room when they realized my reservation was for a party of one, too small, they said, to be seated in the nice, open-air room. I accepted the downgrade; being a party of one what I wanted was a good meal, so it was okay. Kind of. I ordered three dishes. A smoked shrimp taco, an organic tomato salad with basil dressing and creamy quesillo (a local cheese) and, for the entree, Oaxaca's famous Tlayuda with Grilled Beef. It was a sad day for Oaxaca when the food came out. The shrimp, good but distinctly over-salted, were properly sitting on a large tortilla with some chiles and would have made a decent taco but for the lack of any cohesive sauce or topping to pull it all together. But it all went to hell when the bed of melted cheese on which the whole thing sat started oozing out. How did melted cheese get in my taco, I wondered, with nary a mention of cheese on the menu. I ate it and hoped for better. Unfortunately the tomato salad was so bad I sent it back. How do you make a bad tomato salad in a country rife with ripe tomatoes? There was one pithy tomato, NO BASIL at all, and three slices of rubber. The rubber was supposed to be the creamy quesillo, I guess. Worse! The dressing was gawd-awful; just some tiny capers out of a jar, with their jar-juice, and a few specks of something green. And the rubber was sauced with some nasty dark red stuff. I sent it back, telling the waiter that it was inedible, and why. The Tlayuda, Oaxaca's pride and joy, was to Tlayudas what Mama Leoni's lasagna was to my grandmother's., i.e., an abomination. Though it was filled very generously with beef, considering its quality, it seemed more a surreptitious way to get rid of bad meat than a wish to serve a good meal. And it was dry beyond imagining. Well, perhaps not, imagine a mouthful of dessert sand. In desperation, I took out the meat. Next, I poured in all three ramekins of salsa they had placed on the table. The dryness remained implacable. I asked for the check. $1540.00 Mexican. (About $85 US). Plus tip. And they had charged for the inedible salad! To add insult to injury, as I went through the nice room on my way out, I saw a single man seated solo at one of the tables. One of the tables they wouldn't give me. Not that such a table, in the nice room, would have made the food any less inedible.

Ir a este lugar es garantía, sus platillos tienen un sabor y una calidad excelente.La terraza, tiene una ambientación muy agradable y el servicio es bastante bueno.