Restaurante Gilmar
Bienvenido, loyal reader! Please  join Bruce and Mary as they belly up to the buffet at Restaurante Gilmar. Provecho!
This is what brought us in the first time… and keeps us coming. Â I wonder if the people who wait in line for a half hour at Fredy’s Toucan know about this place? Well, it is located on Calle Francisco Madero, entre Calles Aguacate y Jacaranda.
Mary is sitting at our favorite table. Cheers!
As you could see on the signage, the buffet does include unlimited coffee and agua fresca but the translation to fruit juice is not quite accurate as I discovered on our first visit. I ordered a couple jugos de tomate and ended up paying more than I would for a couple beers. Agua fresca or agua natural, in Yucatan, is more like a fruit flavored water, and…
the agua fresca this day is pina, pineapple. Here I am, self-serving.
What we really like about Gilmar’s buffet is that they do switch it up a lot. These are the constant staples: Scrambled eggs, frijoles, and chips…
and these are the offerings of the day. On the left are chiles rellenos and on the right is a chicken chow mein type offering. They have many different choices each time, and always include something vegetarian. Que bueno, says Mary.
The salsa station, where it is hot, hotter, and hottest.
And the frutas table.
And of course they offer made-to-order omelets.
Mary is dishing up some sopa de verduras, vegetable soup and next to that is a creamy Fettuccini Alfredo.
Now this is a different breakfast.
Now it’s my turn: Round one.
Round 2.
Round 3.
And finally Round 4, a Chorizo y Tocino, Bacon omelet, adorned with plenty of salsa. You know, they really shouldn’t allow me at buffets.
Rosario is our favorite server. We are barely to our table and a carafe of coffee instantly appears, every time.
The traffic here is funny. Yesterday the omelet line was out the door but the Saturday before there were only two other tables besides ours. But rest assured, if it is market day (the mercado is only a few blocks away) you will find us at Gilmar’s.
Thanks for visiting, gentle reader. Bruce and Mary have discovered that Calle Madero is a bit of a hospitality row, with Polos, El Buen Comer and now Gilmar. And I’d wager  there are others we have missed in this area. Readers, please feel free to let us know. Hasta proxima Domingo!
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February 3, 2013
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Hi Bruce and Mary- enjoyable and informative as always! I noticed that they take V/MC- is that normal for the restaurants/ stores in the Romantic Zone? Just trying to figure out badly we will need to get to a Banco Santander (spelling?) to get cash since I don’t believe there is one close. (We plan to try to do without a rental car for most of our vacation just to see our comfort level with using the bus system).
Thanks and looking forward to catching up with both of you next month.
Hola Phil, always good to hear from you!
It has been our experience that most restaurants will take CCs. And there are plenty of ATMs around. We use Santander just across the Vallarta bridge which is easily walk-able from Posada de Roger.
We enjoy using the city buses but I’d be a liar to say we are any kind of experts, but we find that we can get about anywhere we want on them. That reminds me, I want to see if I can find an online bus schedule for PV, thanks!
Looking forward to seeing you and Di!
Cheers!
What is $59 in American money?
Always love reading your posts.
Thank you
Hola Izzy! Great to see you! The current exchange brings that 59peso breakfast all the way up to $4.67US! This is why we are living down here, living the middle class American dream, but in Mexico! lol
A good currency exchange rate site is: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=59&From=MXN&To=USD
Abrazos!
I have enjoyed reading about your adventures since you retired to Mexico. I wonder about some things: Do you plan to return to the US at some point? I love good food so enjoy your restaurant adventures. I also teach Sanitation and wonder how clean the restaurants are and do you think they handle the food safely? We hear about so much about Mexico being unsafe. Are you ever fearful living and traveling there? Just curious
Hola Maryln,
First of all, thanks a lot for reading, we appreciate it.
Well, right now we consider ourselves medical refugees, we cannot afford insurance in the States. When we both hit Medicare age we will re-assess our situation and probably split time.
You know we don’t even think about sanitation, really, as we have never gotten a food or drink caused illness in the five years we have lived down here. In fact, here in PV we drink the tap water and it tastes better than my mom’s water in Foley, MN.
Traveling is a different thing, there are a number of areas of Mx that we would be fearful to travel in. I hope new Pres Enrique Peña Nieto’s new approach in fighting the narcos will make a difference.
Cheers!
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