Fabulous Food

The Barcelo Maya Palace had 2 main buffet restaurants and one that was open mid-day only (brunch until 6pm) We mainly ate in the Mirador Buffet but occasionally ate at the Hacienda. There were also several full service, multi-course themed restaurants. (We ate at the Carribean and the French themed ones.) The food was wonderful and here's just a sampling.....



Mmmmm...... Our new favorite breakfast food. Chocotines. (The best way to describe it is to use a phrase from one of my sisters...."a little taste of heaven". Miniture chocolate filled puff pastries with chocolate drizzled over the top and kept in a warmer.)




There was a sushi chef on duty every night.

Just part of the dessert table one night at the Mirador buffet.

On the left is the meat and cheese tray in case you just wanted to make a sandwich or only wanted brie, and cold cuts. The stuffed cucumbers to the right were really yummy.

The chefs who sauteed up shrimp (really 5" prawns), scallops or other such seafood. The first night we were there, they had crab legs on ice as well. In the morning, this station is where they would make you an omlette with whatever ingredients you requested.

The pasta chefs. They made up a pasta dish for you with whatever you wanted in it...veggies, meat or just type of sauce (some kind of cream sauce, tomato based sauce or a pesto type sauce.

Some of the cool watermelon carvings which were actually 3 dimensional and changed every day.

This carving was one of my all time favorites. The wings on the birds stuck out like they were gettting ready to fly away.

The bread table. In the mornings, this had many different types of pastries. Through out the hotel there were many tables made in this design and were light at night. Some were made with capiz shells and others with thinly shaved stones. It was so pretty in both day and at night.

C's favorite station. The steak grill!!! When he discovered you could pretty much have steak with every meal, I think he thought he died and went to heaven. I'm sure he ate 10+ steaks in 3 days and I couldn't tell you how many over the entire 9 days. One of the best quotes of the whole trip was from C. After inhaling his 2nd HUGE plate of Tbone steak, he reported that it was "good and bad". Good that it tasted so good and bad because it was all gone. (little pouty sad face) then he went back for more food.

One of the desserts (fruit tart -which was fabulous) at the Carribean restaurant. (I dissapointed the "coconut cake" - definitely wasn't what I was expecting.) But all the others were very good.

My fabulous blackend fish. It was sooo good. (The decoration was made up of a fried plantain.)

C's steak topped with shrimp from the Carribean restarant. He also had a fried plantain and a fried leaf (looked like an oak but wasn't) C reported that it tasted fine for a fried leaf.