El Socio Naiz is a taqueria restaurant in Centro, Cancún.
Editorially verified October 2, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
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La Fonda del Zancudo is a garden dinner room on Avenida Uxmal in downtown Cancún, with a short menu of house empanadas, tuna and chocolate cream.
OrderHouse empanadas and tuna cooked al punto, then the chocolate cream.
TipDinner only, Monday to Saturday from 17:00, and closed Sunday; the daily specials are posted on its Instagram account.
Flor de Lis on Avenida Tulum in Cancún cooks Mexican and Yucatecan antojitos from 07:00, from cochinita pibil empanadas to rajas tacos and green chilaquiles.
OrderThe cochinita pibil empanadas, then rajas poblanas tacos or green chilaquiles with a glass of horchata.
TipOpen 07:00 to 23:00 daily, so it covers breakfast to late dinner; the Avenida Tulum room is one of two branches, the other at Cumbres.
La Fonda del Zancudo is a garden dinner room on Avenida Uxmal in downtown Cancún, with a short menu of house empanadas, tuna and chocolate cream.
OrderHouse empanadas and tuna cooked al punto, then the chocolate cream.
TipDinner only, Monday to Saturday from 17:00, and closed Sunday; the daily specials are posted on its Instagram account.
Puerto Santo in Puerto Juárez, Cancún, is a sea-view seafood restaurant that buys from local fishermen, serving tuna carnitas, crab flautitas and ceviches.
OrderCarnitas de atún for tacos, flautitas de jaiba and the Puerto Santo guacamole.
TipOpen daily 12:30 to 23:00; the whole catch of the day is sold by the kilo and can be cooked zarandeado, the house speciality.
El Fish Fritanga, on the Nichupté lagoon by La Isla in Cancún's Hotel Zone, is known for fried fish, aguachiles and a Louisiana-style seafood bag.
OrderPescado frito or fish tacos, an aguachile, and the Louisiana-style seafood bag if you are sharing.
TipTwo fish tacos cost about 180 pesos and a meal runs 300 to 500 pesos a head; the lagoon-facing terrace is the draw at sunset.
Taco y Tequila Grill & Bar at Plaza La Isla in Cancún's Hotel Zone serves handmade-tortilla tacos, pulpo and pastor enchiladas in a casual family room.
OrderThe pibil pastor taconazo or the enchiladas pastor, then pulpo espantado or camarones ich-aju to share.
TipOpen 11:00 to 22:00 daily. This is the Plaza La Isla room at km 12.5; the group's other branch is at the Party Center, km 9.5.
Kiosco Verde, a family seafood palapa in Puerto Juárez, Cancún, open since 1974 and in the MICHELIN Guide, serves lobster empanadas and pulpo zarandeado.
OrderPulpo zarandeado and the lobster empanadas, then the Cozumel-style conch ceviche.
TipClosed on Tuesdays; the blackboard specials follow the market catch, so ask what came in that day.
Flor de Lis on Avenida Tulum in Cancún cooks Mexican and Yucatecan antojitos from 07:00, from cochinita pibil empanadas to rajas tacos and green chilaquiles.
OrderThe cochinita pibil empanadas, then rajas poblanas tacos or green chilaquiles with a glass of horchata.
TipOpen 07:00 to 23:00 daily, so it covers breakfast to late dinner; the Avenida Tulum room is one of two branches, the other at Cumbres.
