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Seafood - - La Paz

fixtrauma - 4-12-2009 at 09:09 AM

Looking for your recommendation for a good seafood place or places in La Paz. I read back through threads and am wondering if Milano's and or Dos Mares still suggested? I am sure I missed many others.

bajajudy - 4-12-2009 at 09:26 AM

Dont know if it is still on the menu, but it would be hard to beat Jesse's grilled baby squid! And he always has some seafood on the menu.

Although we havent eaten there in a while, La Costa at the foot of 5 de Febrero, right on the water always had excellent seafood and a nice location. Comitan tuned us on to it. Perhaps he has been there recently.

Udo - 4-12-2009 at 09:50 AM

Mi Barquito, on the Malecon serves really good seafood. It is at the south end of the Malecon. It's so good that locals eat there too. Reasonable prices.
Here is a photo of the kitchen:

Photo of one of the local eating:

My wife and I eating a feast with gigante margaritas:

comitan - 4-12-2009 at 10:02 AM

La Costa

Ate there a week ago, won't be going back, Food,service left us unhappy. I'm sure just an off night but was not comfortable.

Udo......???

fixtrauma - 4-12-2009 at 10:11 AM

What was the order you had on your table in front of you. I want that!

Diver - 4-12-2009 at 10:23 AM

Gotta be the "Combo Platter" with lobster, shrimp, fish and more !!
Looks yummy !!

Udo - 4-12-2009 at 10:23 AM

Yes, that was our food before we ate it.
That was called the SEAFOOD FEAST. I don't remember what the apetizer was, however.
We generally work on the margaritas (usually order double shots)first.

lingililingili - 4-12-2009 at 11:28 AM

La Mar y Pena is one of our favorites on 16 de Septiembre entre I. La Catolica y M. Albanez

bajalinda - 4-13-2009 at 11:44 AM

Las Brisas on the Malecon out towards the El Moro Hotel.

Bismark - can't remember the cross streets, though - maybe Altimirano and the next street over from Bravo. (It's a block or 2 from the big CFE main office building).

Mar y Pena - we had one great meal there and one so-so one, but it is popular with the locals.

BMG - 4-13-2009 at 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by comitan
La Costa

Ate there a week ago, won't be going back, Food,service left us unhappy. I'm sure just an off night but was not comfortable.


Surprised to hear that. Was it just that you were freezing to death when the temp dropped below 80?

We've liked La Costa most of the time.

tripledigitken - 4-13-2009 at 12:58 PM

That meal, and the adult beverage, would put a smile on about any Nomads face. It surely did mine. Yum!:P

Ken

Pompano - 4-13-2009 at 02:15 PM

Many years ago, the Bismarck was the best in town. If you said seafood for dinner...you went there.

vandenberg - 4-13-2009 at 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by Pompano
Many years ago, the Bismarck was the best in town. If you said seafood for dinner...you went there.


I know they had the name Roger, but I had a couple of the worst meals I ever had anywhere at that place. And that was years ago, sometimes in the 80's. The lobster was so tough in one case, besides smelling like sombody p*ssed on your plate,that it was inedible. We took it with us, to prevent some poor slob getting it in his lobster salad, and, tossing it to some street dogs, weren't surprised that even they wouldn't eat it.
So much for fame.:biggrin:

comitan - 4-13-2009 at 04:37 PM

Ken

Some of us wouldn't be smiling when we got the tab.:O:O:O

Bajahowodd - 4-13-2009 at 04:46 PM

It's always great to see a consensus.:rolleyes:

Pompano - 4-13-2009 at 05:31 PM

Ed, you reminded me that some other people have said the same thing lately about the Bismarck. Too bad.

Oh well, the last time I ate there was in the mid-70's. Maybe it was better then? At any rate, I withdraw my input.

I'd much rather have a good steak, anyway.

fixtrauma - 4-13-2009 at 05:48 PM

Going tomorrow. Up to now I think we will go to Mi Barquito. Udo I think it is because I am easily swayed by the visual!

Will report back how it was. Thanks all. Will be having many more opportunities in the future now to try your other recommendations.

Udo - 4-13-2009 at 06:35 PM

Morgaine7:
Could your new "Bismarckcito" be the same Mi Barquito? It is on the Malecon between Hidalgo & Constitucion.

Thanks morgaine7

fixtrauma - 4-13-2009 at 06:35 PM

Udo - 4-13-2009 at 07:25 PM

You are right, Morgaine7! I subjuntivo to your direction. Mi Barquito is at the South end of the Malecon, but with my memory...North is South, and West is East. It's a good thing I'n not driving today.

comitan - 4-13-2009 at 07:48 PM

Well from my perspective I would call that the east end of the Malecon. Oh no, could that possibly be. But then I live on the west end of the bay where the sun sets.:O:O

bajalinda - 4-13-2009 at 08:48 PM

Sorry to hear the bad reports on the Bismark. We have never ordered lobster there - only grilled fish and it has always been very good.

Alan - 4-14-2009 at 06:28 AM

While I don't really consider it a seafood restaurant, the C
cabrilla at Tres Virgennes is one of my favorite dishes there.

Russ - 4-14-2009 at 06:40 AM

Compestre (sp?)has some seafood too. A friend loves their parrot fish special. Never thought of parrot fish as eatable.

[Edited on 4-14-2009 by Russ]

vandenberg - 4-14-2009 at 07:51 AM

Russ,
Lots of time the favorite taco place here in Loreto, El Rey, serves parrot fish. Likely because of lack of anything else, but it's delicious.
And Don,
the open air restaurant just north of the El Moro, has excellent seafood at very reasonable prices. Not a place to take a romantic date, but clean and good service.
And sometimes live music and always great Mexican tunes on the sound system.

longlegsinlapaz - 4-14-2009 at 08:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Russ
Compestre (sp?)has some seafood too. A friend loves their parrot fish special. Never thought of parrot fish as eatable.

[Edited on 4-14-2009 by Russ]
Grill Campestre does a better job on meat....IMO....than they do on seafood. I had rubbery overcooked shrimp twice, so now stick to their BBQ'd spareribs, which are always awesome!:bounce:

BMG - 4-14-2009 at 08:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by vandenberg
Russ,
Lots of time the favorite taco place here in Loreto, El Rey, serves parrot fish. Likely because of lack of anything else, but it's delicious.
And Don,
the open air restaurant just north of the El Moro, has excellent seafood at very reasonable prices. Not a place to take a romantic date, but clean and good service.
And sometimes live music and always great Mexican tunes on the sound system.

Parrot fish is used frequently to make Poisson Cru in French Polynesia. Delicious!

Moyeyo's is the seafood restaurant just north-south-east-west of the El Moro.




vandenberg - 4-14-2009 at 08:18 AM

Thanks Steve,
Yes, that's the place.
Better explain that poisson doesn't mean poison.
We leave that to the puffers.:P

Alan - 4-14-2009 at 08:23 PM

Well since this thread has already been hijacked, Parrot fish is delicious. I had it in Tahiti with a vanilla sauce and thought I'd died and gone to heaven until another restaurant had dorado (mahimahi) with a shrimp sauce. :lol:

Hijacked?

fixtrauma - 4-14-2009 at 08:32 PM

I am going along willingly. Keep up the seafood discussion!

:yes::yes::yes:

Hijacked?

fixtrauma - 4-14-2009 at 08:32 PM

I am going along willingly. Keep up the seafood discussion!

:yes::yes::yes:

JESSE - 4-15-2009 at 03:02 AM

The new Mariscos "Los Laureles" on the malecon has pretty good food. I have tried the clams at "Moyeyos" and where very good. The new "Tacos La Paz" on Marquez de Leon has perhaps the best and most consistent fish tacos in town. Theres a small restaurant on 5 de Feb called "Mar de Cortez", the place is awfully decorated, but the seafood is excelent. Bismarkcito on the malecon is what i call one of those strange La Paz "anomalies", the place is always full, yet every single time me or any of my friends have been there, have been declared a disaster. I went to Mar y peņa once and the seafood chiles rellenos where outstanding.

There is a huge palapa being build on the malcon behind the Avis rent a car place, and the place seems to be a seafood restaurant.

Don Alley - 4-15-2009 at 07:35 AM

Parrot fish are caught exclusively through unsustainable fishing practices, such as gill netting and gillnet/hookah combinations. They are also taken locally in the "Marine Park" here by "pistoleros," illegal night time spear fishers.

I hear it's good, but I hear sea turtle is good too.

BMG - 4-15-2009 at 07:49 AM

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Originally posted by JESSE

I went to Mar y peņa once and the seafood chiles rellenos where outstanding.

I ordered the seafood relleno last time I was at La Mar Y Pena. The one I had was fish fillets (not a chili) stuffed with various seafoods. It was delicious but too much for me to finish. Did not re-heat well the next day.

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