Welcome to LawsonsYucatan!
If you have found this then you are on the new William Lawson Yucatan site!
This will be the new repository for all things related to William Lawson and my (neurotic foreigners’) take on life in the Yucatan, which dates from the NotTheNews days to the elmaloso blog to the Casual Restaurant Critic blog. This is over 10 years of writing about life here. Eventually, it will all be here.
For Casual Restaurant Critic reviews, click on the Casual Restaurant Critic title above to see all those posts. Life in Yucatan? That’s most everything else. Nada que ver is a category for posts that have nothing to do with anything but that I felt like writing. Politics is about both Mexican (local, state, national) and international politics.
Enjoy!
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I will miss the stand alone Casual Restaurant Critic blog, not to sure if i will tune to your other comments as was not a fan of NotTheNews days, but willing to give a chance , a new find for Italiano the best we have found in 10 snowbird years hear, Antica Roma Calle 23A #348 x 34 y 36 la Florida Pinos Near Plaza Altrabrisa Better call for directions in residential area would love to see your comments on this one real Italiiano the guy is from Rome
Best regards
Cancun joe
I am pleased to add the first (?) comment. Maybe you are the guy who got so pissed off when I suggested his wife was an intemperate menopausal beeyatch?
At any rate, I use YucatanToday and your restaurant pieces and thanks for them.
Insofar as what all the expats are up to, I am anxious to see on a forthcoming trip if they have intruded themselves inordinately in to Merida society and culture or if they are just trying.
Well, Poppa, if I was that guy and you had said that to my wife, I surely would not be answering this comment! So no, that wasn’t me. And that is not my wife. I agree that Yucatan Today is a wealth of info. As far as ex-pats go, so many live in their dreamy bubble and have little or only condescending (the children are so beautiful!) interactions. But there I go, all neurotic again.
Joe Nelson, I will check into that restaurant once I have some free time for eating out! Have you heard of one near Progreso and Chicxulub? Supposed to be really good as well.
Happy to find this blog through a link from the Yolisto site. I had come across your Casual Restaurant Critic blog previously, but will follow this one now. Please advise on the name/location of the restaurant near Progreso & Chicxulub you mention above. We will be in Chelem later this month and would like to check it out. Thanks and look forward to reading.
About time you consolidated. It’s all the rage. Sorry to have missed you when I was down there. I actually missed everybody. Next time, I promise. I’ll try not to come during “birthday weekend.”
Saludos!
Thanks EJ; hope you have more time next time around as well!
Dina; the Italian place I mention is called Elio al Mare or something to that effect. I am looking for directions as well, as I have only heard about it, not actually gone. It is supposed to be very good!
Thanks for stopping by!
Congrats on the NY Magazine Travel mention!
Thanks Krist!
Thanks for the compliments about Yucatan Today. I look forward to hearing about Antica Roma, as I love good Italian food. As for the place on the beach, it is Elio al Mare, Calle 21 No. 60 x 40 y 38, Progreso. Tel. 969 935 0804. Open Wed-Sun- 1 pm – 10 pm. Seafood and homemade pasta. Haven’t tried it yet.
Juanita Stein, Editor, Yucatan Today
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