Its gastronomy is the result of its Mayan heritage, combined with the contributions of the Spaniards, and even the pirates and corsairs who brought new ingredients to Campeche.

Local cuisine features a variety of seafood, you can taste panuchos (tortilla stuffed with different ingredients), a street food speciality; empanadas (pastry turnover filled with different ingredients); tamales; tacos; and the famous “pan de cazón” (bread of small shark), prepared like a lasagne but using tortillas instead of pasta and filling the layers with cooked shark meat, black beans and putting at the top tomato sauce, this one you shoud try at least once during your visit.

The “pámpano en escabeche” (Pompano cooked in a pickled escabeche sauce) is delicious, as well as the x'catic chili a stuffed and battered chili that can be stuffed with small shark. The shrimp in Campeche are the best in the country, there are several kinds: the giant, the big, the white, the coastal and the small; so it is a popular menu item and can be enjoyed served with coconut, breaded, in cocktail, with garlic, seasoned with oregano, in broth or in a very tasty ceviche.

Local gastronomy also features other seafood like ponpano, porgy, cod, calamari in squid ink sauce, red snapper and “mero en mac-cum” (marinated striped bass in tomato-pepper sauce), among others.

The cuisine also includes beans with pork, tamales wrapped in banana leaves filled with pork picadillo with achiote sauce, delicious shrimp-based salads, octopus, squid, oyster and crab, as well as a variety of seafood cocktails.

If you like desserts you most try the sweet made with “chicozapote”, this fruit has an exceptionally sweet, malty flavor.