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Ceviche is raw fish, shrimp or conch cured in lime juice with onion, tomato, coriander and chile and eaten cold on tostadas; Cancún's seafood palapas build it from the day's catch.
Ceviche, seafood marinated in citrus juice, is eaten along the coasts of Latin America, from Mexico to Peru, where it is the national dish. The acid in the lime juice firms the flesh and turns it opaque, which looks like cooking, though the seafood is still raw, so it must be very fresh. On the Mexican Caribbean, ceviche follows the catch: in Cancún, Kiosco Verde, a family seafood palapa at Puerto Juárez in the MICHELIN Guide, serves a Cozumel-style conch ceviche with stars of yellow habanero, and Puerto Santo, which buys from local fishermen, lists ceviches too.
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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.
Navíos is a dockside restaurant on Nichupté Lagoon at Boulevard Kukulcán km 19.5 in Cancún, serving ceviche, tiraditos and fish in a Mexican fusion style.
OrderA tiradito of tuna in tortilla ash or the black aguachile, then the catch of the day.
TipOpen daily 12:00 to 22:00; book through the website for a palapa table on the dock.
Puerto Santo in Puerto Juárez, Cancún, is a sea-view seafood restaurant that buys from local fishermen, with 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.
Los de Pescado began as a wooden cart in 2004; its Avenida Tulum branch in Cancún sells fish and shrimp tacos, ceviche tostadas and marlin pescadillas.
OrderTacos de pescado with the tamarind sauce, a marlin pescadilla, and a tostada de ceviche to share.
TipThis branch closes at 17:30, so plan it as a lunch stop; the chain has other Cancún branches, so check you are on Avenida Tulum.
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