Fresh, authentically delicious & always popular, makes this the top spot for Vietnamese food at Lake Chapala.

Under the palapa tree just you & me (plus a couple hundred weekend visitors from Guadalajara).

This restaurant with a backyard garden is a quiet place to eat a great home-cooked breakfast or lunch.

This sandwich from Jalisco is named for the spicy chile de árbol sauce that it’s “drowned” in.

Tex-Mex. Hot rods. Vroom vroom. Burritos, enchiladas, nachos, chimichangas, shrimp, fish & more.

Mouth-watering tacos, quesadillas, lonches & pelliscadas made by Francisco Ramos.

Shrimp & fish tacos & tortas, pachola, chilaquiles, eggs & other items make up the menu at this small kitchen on the highway in Ajijic.

Located half a block from the malecón in Ajijic, this café & restaurant serves up excellent espresso, as well as breakfast, lunch & dinner.

The best roadside rooster in town.

Delicious tortillas & masa made every morning from yellow, not white, corn.

Regional varieties of candies from 9 states in Mexico & the finest stone-ground chocolate from Oaxaca.

This restaurant has been serving up hearty American- & Mexican-style breakfasts & lunches 7 days a week for the past 19 years.

Pastries, cakes, bread & more at this “little house” of bread.

For 18 years, Francisco Martínez has been on the Ajijic highway selling coffee beans from his farm in Veracruz.

For 50 years, one family has been making the basic antojitos which define Mexican street food in this dinner-only restaurant, where you can choose from 5 tasty à la carte choices.

This late-night place for tacos, vampiros, campechanas, quesadillas & more uses just-made tortillas & is open until 3 a.m. (5 a.m. on Saturdays).

An Arab taco truck on every corner – especially this one, where you can get Middle Eastern-influenced Arabic tacos (originally from Puebla) & the kamello (from Torreón).

National & international cheeses, cold cuts & fresh-baked bread. Get a sandwich to go & eat on the plaza nearby.

This ice cream has been pushed through the streets of Ajijic daily for the past 30 years.

Delicious sushi, tempura, rice bowls & teriyaki — yes, smack in the heart of Mexico.

This taquería has been serving tacos on the Ajijic plaza at night since the late 1970s.

Exceptional tacos where the specialty is the Puebla-style tacos al pastor, plus other dishes you can’t find locally like alambre.

Over 40 authentic dishes prepared by a Thai chef now living in Ajijic. Pad Thai, curries, soups, spring rolls & much more.