Deericious!

The next time you visit Cancun, opt for a different kind of steakhouse. You’ll find that Cambalache offers a more unique and tastier dining experience than Ruth’s Chris, Outback, and Lorenzillo’s - all of which are also on the main boulevard of Kukulcan.

Cambalache is an Argentine steakhouse, located in the central clubzone of Cancun, in the same plaza as Hard Rock Cafe. After a long day of jungle tours, ruins (prepare to sweat), or scuba diving, you deserve an indulgent meal of nothing but the best meat, cheese, and sausage dishes. Once seated and ready to order, the waiter will roll a cart up to your table displaying each of their different cuts of meat - sirloin, strip, ribeye, etc. Nothing like a huge display of raw carnage when you’re starving… The tenderloin comes highly recommended, as well as the house specialty souffled potatoes and caesar salad, made to order at your table.

After much indecision, we ordered the Cambalache sausage (4*) and provoleta cheese (4*) appetizers to start. Talk about clogging your arteries… Feeling guilty about not having any veggies, we added the caesar salad prepared table-side (3*) which was nothing spectacular, but definitely worth the show. The waiter cracked and skillfully added egg to the dressing by using two forks in one hand while keeping the entire egg intact! For our entree, we shared the tenderloin which was cooked nicely to a medium rare on a sizzling plate with green chile peppers and onions (4*). Careful, a small taste those chile peppers made us cry and lose our hearing for a few minutes… The highlight of our dinner was the basket of souffled potatoes which were fantastic (4*) - they were crisp on the outside like homemade potato chips but soft like mushy french fries on the inside. Muy bien! <BTW, please excuse Rei’s obnoxious shirt - he thought it was very fitting for Cancun, MX.>

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