Although Pech was small in stature, his audacity, great character, and a thirst for adventure gave him a hypnotic charisma while courting women and he became a kind of Maya Don Juan-Marco Polo. It’s estimated that his offspring could be found across the five continents. And it was through his voyages around the world that he brought new ingredients to Maya lands, changing the regional cuisine by fusing the traditional recipes with exotic flavors brought from distant lands.
With our restaurant, Almirante Pech, we pay tribute to this legendary character by creating a cuisine with deep Maya roots combined with the flavors from different parts of the world. Local ingredients such as sour orange, burnt chiles, and the freshest fish are merged with Indian curry and Mediterranean jocoque. We have an extensive list of recipes that you’ll love including our Arabic recipes made with Mexican products, like our famous roasted corn taboule, ¨French¨ sweet potatoes, or traditional Yucatecan panuchos filled with pork meat or the octopus kastakan. But we not only revolutionized local cuisine, in our bar, you’ll find exotic distillates, daring wines, and cocktails worthy of the great miscegenation that the world has experienced and that makes this place a real tropical tavern
