In the area abound fresh fruits, vegetables, seafood and delicious meats. These ingredients are combined with sauces, chiles and spices with unique results.

Among its most famous dishes are: “Sopa de lima” (Limetta Soup), Yucatan’s most popular soup, a complex blended stock (pork, chicken, veg) with the right amount of limetta to give only light sourness; “Huevos motuleños”, two sunny-side-up fried eggs layered atop two crispy-fried tortillas (or tostadas) smeared with black beans and topped with chopped ham, peas, crumbly white cheese, and red salsa, made with tomatoes and habanero chiles, with fried plantains served on the side; “Pollo pibil”, pieces of chicken marinated in achiote, sour orange juice, garlic, cumin, salt and pepper, wrapped in banana leaf and baked, but the quintessential Yucatan dish is “Cochinita pibil”, the same recipe just using pork instead of chicken; “Poc-chuc”, marinated pork, served with rice, refried black beans, sliced avocado, fire-roasted onions, cabbage, and chiltomate (habanero-tomato) sauce; “Panuchos and Salbutes”, deep fried tortilla, stuffed with mashed black beans topped with a variety of options like pickled onion, boiled egg, lettuce, turkey or cochinita pibil, the “panuchos” are stuffed with mashed black beans; “Papadzules”, tortillas filled with boiled egg (though other fillings may have been used) and coated in a special pumpkin seed sauce and topped with a tomato sauce, is one of the most ancient and traditional Mayan foods; and beans with pork, served with rice, covered with tomato sauce and seasoned with radish, cilantro and onion.

Yucatan’s ultimate fusion dish is the “Queso relleno”, a hollowed out edam cheese (from Holland) filled with spiced minced pork, topped with a k’ool blanco sauce and finished with tomato sauce and olives.

Yucatan cuisine is famous for its “antojitos” (Snacks) like: “Codzitos”, tortilla rolled into a taco style without filling, dipped in tomato sauce and topped with crumbly white cheese; and “Tzikil Pac”, pumpkin seeds ground with tomatoes and habaneros, eaten with tortilla chips.

After these rich spicy dishes, it is very common that the fresh fruits of the region such as papaya, yucca and cocoyol sweetened with piloncillo, are the typical desserts of Yucatan. Another popular choice is a the refreshing coconut sorbet.

As for the drinks, in Yucatán you can try the Xtabentún, a sweet Mayan liqueur made from anise seeds and fermented honey which is extracted by bees from the nectar of the flower of a same name. Other interesting drinks are the liquors know as the “mistela de yerbabuena or verdín” (peppermint liquor) and “mistela de naranja” (orange liquor).