Maguey is a plant. This bay has been named after that plant, for reasons yet to be understood. To get to the beach, you must park outside and walk through a stairway leading you down, you have to walk around 3 minutes.
Once you arrive, the beach is serviced by “Palapa” restaurants. Palapa restaurant is a type of restaurant, which only designates the architecture (or lack there of) of the restaurant itself. It simply means that it is a rudimentary building built with Palm tree leaves, wood, and whatever else you have. This type of establishments are typical in Mexican beaches, and it isn’t a lack of desire to invest in State of the Art Architecture, but more a desire to build it so that it looks like a Palapa. Mexicans purposely look for this type of restaurants because they think they are cozy and natural “natural as one should really live like..” or so they like to entertain. As with most people, romanticsm hits hard, and Mexicans like to entertain romantic and nostalgic ideas about times past. Be it as it may be, this type of restaurants are now traditional.
Here you will find traditional Mexican seafood cuisine, at modest prices. If there is Mexican food then there are also Mexican beverages; some will happily translate that to mean “cerveza” or beer, and yes, there is also plenty of that. Expect it to be crowded, and with plenty of happy tunes in the background. This is the place to munch down, drink a cold one and enjoy the beach. Make sure you add hot-sauce (bottled), lemon, and ketchup (catsup in Spanish) to your sea-food, and drink a cold beer with salt, lemon, and a couple of drops of English steak sauce in it as well. Remember, Mexican seafood is usually not accompanied with Tortillas, it’s usually eaten with crackers or “tostadas”, this way you look cool and impress.
Maguey Bay
