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Long-running, American-owned restaurant with classic Italian food and tables around a pretty garden that’s a favorite with many regulars.

Also in a lovely tropical garden, around a Caribbean-style house with a big, shady verandah. The menu offers delicious, imaginatively prepared Caribbean seafood and other produce.

One of the island’s oldest restaurants, in a wooden house just off the square. To eat, there are classic Yucatecan dishes (see Dishes of the Yucatán), at low prices.

This mellow, restaurant in a Caribean-style wooden hut offers a wide range of Mediterranean- inspired dishes, including pasta, light fish specialties, and excellent salads.

The best restaurant on Cozumel’s east coast, and a wonderful place to eat on the beach.

This restaurant is located in a cabaña with a sea view. The menu offers a variety of typical American and Mexican dishes.

Run by a charming Mexican–Italian couple, this relaxing garden restaurant has a varied and international menu, with great light lunches.

Despite the name, this fun beach-barbecue is Mexican-run. Its food is mainly Mexican too – specialties are good-value platters of flame-grilled fresh fish, seafood, or meats.

One of Tulum’s longest-established restaurants, with a big outdoor terrace, and one of the best places for traditional Yucatecan and Mexican dishes.

This bar-terrace offers an interesting mix of Mexican and French cooking, and the owners are very friendly.