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Aguachile is raw shrimp butterflied and drowned in lime juice blended with fresh chile, with cucumber and red onion; Cancún's seafood places serve green and black versions.
Aguachile comes from the west coast of Mexico, mainly Sinaloa, Nayarit, Sonora, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and the Baja peninsula. Its core is shrimp with fresh or dried chiles, lime, onion and cucumber; the classic Sinaloa version lays butterflied shrimp in a bed, salts them, and covers them with lime and chile blended in a molcajete. It has travelled to the Caribbean coast: in Cancún, Mero 18 lists a shrimp aguachile at MXN 200, Fred's a green shrimp aguachile and Navíos a black one.
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Fred's on Boulevard Kukulcán km 14.5 in Cancún is a lagoon-side seafood house with a raw bar, ceviches, tacos, lobster quesadillas and cocktails.
OrderYucatan ceviche with shrimp, fish or octopus, then the lobster quesadillas.
TipOpen daily 12:00 to 00:00, so it works for a late lunch or a late dinner.
Porfirio's at Boulevard Kukulcán km 14.2 in Cancún is a contemporary Mexican restaurant on Nichupté Lagoon, with esquites, quesabirria and aguachile.
OrderQuesabirria on a blue-corn tortilla, esquites tiernos, or the aguachile verde de camarón.
TipOpen daily 13:00 to 01:00; the terrace faces the lagoon, and live mariachi plays at dinner.
Mero 18 is a seafood and sushi room on Calle Mero by Avenida Nader in downtown Cancún, serving oysters by the piece, aguachiles, ceviches and sushi rolls.
OrderShrimp aguachile (MXN 200), cold oysters at MXN 50 each and the two tunas roll, the menu's house favourite.
TipIt sits inside Mezcal Boutique Hotel but is open to everyone from 07:00 to 23:00; breakfast runs until 12:30 and the booking form opens WhatsApp.
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.
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