Wala Wala - Autlan

The food was great, pricing reasonable, service amazing. We were in San Blas for 4 days and visited this restaurant 6 times for both breakfast and dinner.

Came here at the insistance of another member of our group. Was forewarned that service was very slow even though the place was not crowded. My langostina entree was nicely prepared, but the vegetable sides were seriously overcooked. This place obviously caters to foreign visitors and expat Americans. I didn't travel to Mexico for two weeks to go out of my way to eat a non-Mexican meal. Frankly, I would have been happier eating street tacos. BTW, the lady selling calamari tostados by the bus station serves great food and has incredible knife skills. Good food and an entertaining show.

9/5 We three British middle aged guys were back in SB thirteen months after our first visit. This time we hit it off peak season as places were winding down or closing for the season. We had already visited a few local restaurants (including La Isla, La Pescadore on the square not TA still! the first time so were up for trying new places. On the Thursday of our arrival Red Witch was closed (for maintenance until October we discovered but this was high up the ratings and opposite El Bucanero where we were staying. Ofro and McDonald were very close too. Unfortunately a brand new bar called ‘Delux’ was pumping out sheisemusic from its terrace to no customers at all (as it had been when we arrived at El Bucanero earlier in the afternoon. We arrived at WW at about 20:30 to find three sets of people already dining in quite a big eclectically furnished and decorated dining room. Lots of flags around so definitely a tourist joint. We were greeted by the friendly boss (who speaks good English and took a table by the stage with covered over instruments on. A guitarist wandered in, regaled us with a couple of quiet Mexican songs (competing with the ‘music’ opposite whilst we chose what to drink and eat. I got chatting with an American and Canadian who had made this place their home and knew the family well. I did not take pictures of the menu for some reason but I did take one of the bill which had the dishes handwritten in full. The wine they offered was only from Chile so we chose a Victoria (26 Negra Modelo (35 and a Chelada (30 instead. As we are pescatarians we ordered a variety of fish, shellfish and vegetable dishes. We were presented with a bowl of nachos and finely chopped tomato and onion salad as an appetiser which we dug into happily. The food came in good time and is described below. I had a chat with the boss about change in the town, especially the three storey noisy ‘Delux’ opposite which I cannot remember from last year. In the square a noisy bar has built a terrace. There is also a huge new elevated bar which promised more noisy chaos (gangster rap no doubt to drown out the roving mariachi bands we saw last year, all so sad. The Broccoli ‘Salad’ with Blue Cheese (100 was actually boiled broccoli cooked, al dente, with a kind of parmesan sprinkled over, quite tasty though. The boss presented us with a large selection of sauces in bottles, this is probably an American thing. The Ensalada Artichoke (105 turned out to be an undressed salad of leaves, sliced cucumber, red onions, boiled egg and tomato with three halved huge prawns/shrimps as the boss had no artichokes in stock (despite my friend asking if they came from jars . Maybe he had too many shrimps in the fridge and needed to shift them as end of season and the artichokes in jars would keep? No big deal as it was tasty. Another bowl of chopped tomato salad arrived for the nachos, maybe we were too greedy with the nachos and salad initially! The main courses arrived, two with garlic as we wanted to ward off the mosquitoes! Camarones Ajo (160 was six large shrimps cooked perfectly in fried garlic but not as garlicky as he would have liked. Camarones Vino Blanco (160 similarly five big shrimps in a weak White Wine sauce. Filet de Ajo (150 was my tasty large fillet covered in chopped up raw garlic on top of the garlicky sauce. I had thought about the fish filet in almonds but needed to think about combating mosquitoes instead! Each dish had the same garnish of half a mango, boiled cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and a large scoop of white rice. Another two beers were required for the main course and all went down well. My friend with the six garlicky prawns could not finish his meal as he was so full so I finished it for him plus the rice from our friend. All was good and by 21:50 we ordered the bill, it arrived promptly at an accurate 827 and I went to the desk to pay by mcard and leave we left a 70 tip on the table. By 22:00 when we left happy there were only two other people left, separate but both Canadians, young and old. Overall the meal was fine but plain. A bit of frying in butter or more frying of garlic in a garlic dish (raw garlic is not ‘cooking’ . It was more expensive than the highly rated restaurant Capistrano in Tepic (we ate in the day before which was much more sophisticated (although had its own shortcomings . We were not bothered by mosquitoes that evening!

An excellent eating establishment in san blas! i have eaten there a lot. most everything is homemade from scratch too! clean desirable place. the bar next door is excellent as well!!!

I love this place, I’ve been going for years. The food is excellent, the service is excellent, and the family that runs it is wonderful, And if you get there on the right night, you will hear live music with Thomas or Julio.