Description:

  • Coming for a meal at Labná is like a very special trip to a Yucatecan home, a place that serves delicious Mayan food and treats you like a friend. Specialties include a sublime lime soup, poc chuc (marinated, barbecue-style pork), chicken or pork pibil (sweet and spicy barbecue sauce served over shredded meat wrapped in banana leaves), and appetizers such as papadzules (tortillas stuffed with boiled eggs in a pumpkin-seed sauce). The Labná Special is a sampler of four typically Yucatecan main courses, including poc chuc, while another specialty of the house is baked suckling pig, served with guacamole. The refreshing Yucatecan beverage, agua de chaya -- a blend of sweetened water and the leaf of the chaya plant, abundant in the area, to which sweet Xtabentun liquor (a type of anise) can be added for an extra kick -- is also served here. The vaulted ceiling dining room is decorated with a mural of a pre-Hispanic Yucatacan scene, as well as with black-and-white photographs of Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán, dating from the 1900s. A local trio plays weekend afternoons.

  • © Frommer's 2012

User Reviews for Labna

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    Disappointing Experience

  • We went to Labna for lunch last week. Even after our concierge cautioned against this place, we decided to try it out because of all the rave reviews here. Unfortunately, our concierge...

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    An authentic and delicious experience

  • Labna is a wonderful restaurant, located on a side street in the center of Cancun. Celebrate your visit to the Yucatan with an authentic and delicious cuisine. When you first enter...

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    Great, authentic food...

  • Do me a favor and venture to downtown Cancun, and if you want excelent local dishes, Labna is probably the place to go. We went on a low season, so it was quite empty, which worried...

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Awards:

Frommer's
Frommer's
  •  Highly Recommended 2010
  • Details

    • Contact:

    • visit website
    • tel: 52 998 884 3158
    • send email

    • Address:

    • Margaritas 29
    • (Parque las Palapas)
    • Cancun, Q. Roo 77500

    • Neighborhood:

      • Downtown

    • Payments:

    • amex mastercard visa

    • Hours:

    • Daily Noon-11:30p

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