Salbutes are lighter, unfilled cousins of panuchos: puffed and fried corn tortillas topped with shredded turkey, lettuce, tomato, avocado and pickled red onion.
Salbutes share roots with panuchos in early-1900s Yucatán market cookery. Where panuchos hide refried beans inside, salbutes are open-faced and lighter, sold as a quick breakfast or street snack at peninsula markets.
4 editor picks for Salbutes in Mérida, ranked by editorial score. All Mérida signature dishes · Salbutes across every city.
Panuchos Mercado Santa Ana ★ 4.5
Santa Ana · Mercado Santa Ana, Calle 47 x 60 y 58, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Mercado Santa Ana stalls Mérida run panuchos and salbutes with shredded turkey, pickled red onion and habanero from 06:00 through late morning.
La Chaya Maya ★ 4.4
Santa Lucía · Calle 55 459 esq. Calle 60, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
La Chaya Maya on Santa Lucía in Mérida pours tortillas on a clay comal in the dining room and runs sopa de lima, poc chuc and panuchos seven days.
Salbutes y Panuchos Doña Tina ★ 4.3
Santa Ana · Mercado Santa Ana, Calle 47 x 60 y 58, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Doña Tina's stall in Mercado de Santa Ana Mérida turns out salbutes and panuchos with turkey, breakfast-only for Centro before the lunch service.
Mercado de Santiago ★ 4.3
Santiago · Mercado de Santiago, Local 15, Calle 57 x 70, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Mercado de Santiago on Calle 57 Mérida is the Santiago Apóstol neighborhood market, Lonchería La Lupita's cochinita and the breakfast cochinita stalls.