The Raw Bar
Aguachile, tiradito, erizo, oysters on stone.
Del mar al plato, como debe ser.
A coastal Mexican seafood room on Mexico's Pacific coast — raw bar, wood fire, and Valle de Guadalupe wine.
Raw bar discipline, wood-fire restraint, and a cellar built around the Valle. The kitchen keeps the plate clean so the Pacific can speak first.
Raw on ice. Fire on cedar. Wine on the stem.
"We keep the room low and the plate loud. No costume, no flag, no spectacle — just the Pacific, plated with the respect it asks for."
The raw bar, the wood fire, the cellar, and the terrace — each a distinct corner of the Baja Pacific, served the way the coast serves it.
Aguachile, tiradito, erizo, oysters on stone.
Cedar-grilled whole fish, zarandeado, octopus.
Valle de Guadalupe Nebbiolo, Chenin, and allocated bottles.
Evening service outdoors — golden hour to last pour.
The pieces of the menu we are known for. Sourced, butchered, and fired in the room — Sinaloan roots, Baja Sur stems, Pacific Mexico coastline.
Raw Pacific shrimp bathed in a bright green chile-lime-cilantro broth, sliced cucumber, pickled red onion, fresh avocado. Our first course and our oldest one.
Seared bluefin, chipotle aioli, crispy leek, avocado, on a paper-thin corn tostada. A nod to Contramar — the dish that rewrote the Mexican tostada.
Whole Pacific snapper butterflied on cedar, achiote-citrus marinade, finished over hardwood embers. Carved at the table. For two.
Pen-shell clam seared rare, blonde chile butter, charred lime, a whisper of sea salt from Baja Sur. A delicacy the peninsula keeps close.
Pacific octopus charred over hardwood, salsa macha, a swoosh of chipotle aioli, pickled red onion, and a charred half-lemon. The plate the wood fire was built for.
Forty-eight labels from the Valle — Nebbiolo, Tempranillo, Chenin Blanc, and a short allocation list you will not see poured elsewhere on the coast. We pour it in proper Zalto, not tumblers. We list it by producer, not by score.
Ask the sommelier for a taste — she has been to every vineyard on the list.
Mar de Oro moves from raw bar brightness to wood-fire glow to terrace air — a room built for long dinners, cold wine, and Pacific seafood.
For birthdays, buyouts, wine dinners, and resort-hosted evenings, the private room is arranged directly with the house.
Tables release thirty days out. For Chef's Menu, large parties, or private dining, call the room directly — the line is answered by a person, not a bot, Tuesday through Sunday afternoons.
Minutes from the Punta de Mita beach clubs and resort corridor. Valet and nearby parking available during dinner service.