Don Day: A feast for the eyes, the tongue and the wallet. At La Mar

Published September 5, 2022

If you’re like me, you have grandkids. And if you’re like me, you’re constantly (and usually unsuccessfully) trying to lure them down to San Miguel de Allende.

“But, Grampie, there’s no sand, no sea.”

I’d been almost ready to try a somewhat shady tactic.

“You come to San Miguel and I solemnly promise I’ll take you to the sea, take you to what we in Mexico call La Mar.”

Somewhat shady? Make that super shady. You see La Mar is about 600 clicks from the nearest ocean. La Mar is actually a restaurant. Actually, a new San Miguel restaurant. And actually, a very good restaurant. I think my grandkids might even like it there. Though what they may like may be a lot different than what I like.

La Mar bills itself as a “Desayunos & Mariscos” restaurant. Apart from a couple of kippers and eggs mornings in my distant past, I struggle to put breakfast and seafood in the same sentence but, believe it or not, at La Mar, it seems to be working.

When I’d walked by the place over the previous couple of weeks it had always been busy. Maybe not busy on the inside. But busy on the outside. And this place has had a history of being a patio place.

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