Everything was just perfect! A friend brought me here for a late lunch. It was not busy. We sat at an outside table with a great view of the water and boats. It was a windy day, but the table was tucked in enough that we were not affected. Service was very attentive without being pesty. I don't speak Spanish and was given a tablet with everything in English. My date was having the salmon and I had the Roquefort steak. We started with the ahi tuna. The starter was very flavorful as the tuna was bathed in soy and seated on some seaweed salad and sprinkled with jalapino slices. The main courses were also good. I was so full, I had no room for dessert. I always check out the bathrooms and these were very upscale. They are upstairs and all with ambient light and bamboo. Really a cool and inviting design. I would definitely return here. read more

Montemar Cocina de Tierra y Mar, located in the Marina Puerto Cancun shopping mall, offers an upscale yet cozy atmosphere with brick walls, large animal portraits, festive Christmas decorations, and spacious outdoor seating facing the marina. It is renowned for its high-quality food, especially steaks and seafood such as octopus, as well as exceptional service. This makes it perfect for tourists, food enthusiasts, and special occasions celebrating life. We tried several dishes and highly recommend: - Wood-fired artichokes: whole artichoke grilled over charcoal for a smoky flavor, served with an oregano dressing. - Guacamole with pork cheek cracklings and octopus: Fried pork cheek cracklings and octopus atop guacamole, accompanied by homemade tortillas. Portions were generous and satisfying. - Skirt steak: pre-marinated, certified Angus beef grilled to medium-well, served with buttery mashed potatoes. Grilled to perfection with excellent quality. - Colossal Mayan octopus: 330 grams of fresh octopus grilled in chimichurri, served with mashed potatoes and fried parsley. Slightly spicy, filling, and flavorful. read more

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Ricardo is that guy! Cool, approachable and excellent customer service. This restaurant is situated on the water. Food was great. We tried several new dishes. We even had grasshoppers. All I can say is what an experience! Everything we had was delicious. Beautiful ambiance. Waterside dining. Great drinks. read more

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This place is located in an upscale area of Cancun, far from the touristy areas of the hotels zone. It caters more to locals and people that really know the area. The venue is very cozy and romantic, specially at nights. It has a deck facing the marina, therefore the breeze and the fans cools you perfectly during meals. The music is not too loud, so you can carry a conversation, even with a live DJ. Great music BTW. The staff is great! Polite, well trained, and willing to go far and beyond to accommodate you. The menu has enough options, including starters, entrees, side dishes, soups, salads, specials and deserts. It has a mixture of seafood and steaks. We tried the fillet steak with grilled chili sauces, and the mushroom risotto, both steaks were cooked to perfection, the risotto was creamy and well seasoned. Bonus point, they have kids options as well. The table service, included a hot sauce sampler, pickled onions with habanero and a freshly baked butter bun. The sauces were great, although if you do not do spicy food try them with caution. The cherry on top, the prices are very reasonable for the quality and service. Conversely to the other options near the hotels zone. I definitely recommend this place and will come back. read more

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Table of 14 celebrating a weekend filled of jetsurf racing in the marina behind. An exceptional review doesn't need many words. With high spirits and good ones at that, great food, great company and beautiful decor. Highly recommend!!! read more

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We dined tonight at Montemar, I wished I would have taken more pics of appetizers and such but everything was delicious! The ambiance was warm and inviting and our server Robert was very attentive and friendly! read more

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This is a great restaurant located right next to the Renaissance Hotel we were staying at. It is actually a whole mall with different stores and they had a Japanese restaurant, an upscale Mexican restaurant, a Häagen-Dazs, and a gelato place There may be more places but that is all that I saw as I hangrily came to this restaurant to satisfy a burger craving. When you are sat they bring you still or sparkling water according to your preference. We got still and asked for a lot of water and they gave it to me! I love lime in water. We had to ask for a lot of ice as well. I ordered the house hamburger. It comes with a nice sized patty, tomato, lettuce, some sweet onion jam and a big slice of red onion. I took out tho onion and some of the onion jam. It came on a dark wheat bun that was pretty sweet. I took a star off because the food was all sweet. My brother's fish and mashed potatoes were sweet, so was the salt. My burger was sweet as well. Another reason I took off a star is that the bathroom was located up the stairs. It was almost like they built the stairs and didn't know what to do so they put the bathrooms up there, lol. It's ridiculous for older or disabled patients. I may or may not be back. The desserts look delicious! read more

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Excelente servicio y deliciosa comida , volveremos seguro !!!! Estefany es una maravillosa anfitriona ! Felicitaciones!!!!! read more

Beautiful decor, staff and great food. I overly enjoyed the octopus tacos. They were cooked to perfection. The Caesar salad was also yummy. read more

Montemar - Octopus taco. Strawberry margarita and Caesar salad. - Mexican Near Me - Cancún, ROO

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Amazing steakhouse. Luna the waiter was so helpful. There was 4 people in our party. I got the ribeye, it was so tender and flavorful. My friends got shrimp, Mac and cheese with crabmeat and arrichero steak. For sides we had grilled veggies, mashed potatoes, baked potato and asparagus. We had a massive Cesar salads. Everything was cooked to perfection. The atmosphere was beautiful. The table was overlooking the water. Postcard perfect. read more

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Met expectations for an upscale seafood and steakhouse. They were very accommodating for a day of reservation for a group of 20+ and had lovely outdoor seats looking onto the water. Lovely setting and very large menu of upscale and more casual tourist Mexican options, but found the seafood and items off the grill particularly well done. Catch of the day was massive and excellently prepared red snapper with lemon and warm butter to accompany. Probably could've fed 3 or 4 people, and was one of the smaller sized catch options. read more

Montemar - Pescado del día a la plancha (red snapper) - Mexican Near Me - Cancún, ROO

wonderful fancy restaurant! mixed seafood casserole mx$260.00 grilled asparagus mx$130.00 mayan colossal octopus mx$650.00 those are the 3 dishes i ordered and all were delicious! read more

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I read previous reviews prior to going and perhaps some got unlucky. We had a great time. Service was great, polite and had 0 issues. The food was absolutely Amazing. Burgers, steaks all made to our liking. The steak was the BEST I've had so far. Absolutely no complaints. We will be back for sure! read more

Visited for dinner Friday January 15, 2021, 8:30 pm. Located in Puerto Cancún shopping center, a friend and I stumbled upon Montemar restaurant, extremely hungry. And we're so glad we did. Upon entry, we had our temperature checked and were seated without a reservation. The ambiance was gorgeous and there was only indoor seating available without a reservation. The patio seating by the water was all booked, which was fine on a chilly evening. We scanned a QR code to view the menu, which was really cool and offered in many, many languages. The menu was VAST. The Service: Our server was Alexis, sometimes accompanied by server Diana, and was very pleasant and did the best he could with the little English he knew and the little Spanish we knew. Both of our servers were attentive all night until the end--remember you have to actually ask for your check here in Mexico. The Vibe: The music was very cool, not too loud, and gave the high-ceilinged restaurant a cool, contemporary, sexy vibe. The walls are stone, with high, red bricked archways and a bamboo ceiling. It was dark, earthy, and beautiful. Even though we sat inside, we were always only feet away from the ocean water. As we waited, a man walked up to our table with two canaries in a small cage. We think he wanted to show us a some of truck, but we declined the show. Minutes later, a slick-looking couple dressed all in black walked over to our table and greeted us. He introduced himself as Xibalba and at first, we thought he was the manager. Instead, he pulls out a deck of cards and proceeds to quickly perform two magic tricks, with the help of his assistant. It was actually really cool. He's on Instagram as @xibalba_conjurista. The Food: We were served complimentary a bread and spread assortment which was so good, I wish we had more! I had the betabel, which are roasted beets, and the salmon. The beets were plentiful, served with goat cheese and pistachios and let me tell you--somebody knows what they're doing in the Montemar kitchen. I've never had a beet combination so delicious. The best beets I've ever had, and so many that I took some home! I followed with the sous vie salmon, cooked perfectly medium, with skin on the bottom and it was VERY good but I was so full of bread and beets! I almost got the king crab, and will be returning for it. Alexis asked us multiple times, "Would you like to see it?" Wait until you see the photo of it. My friend had the guacamole and the cajun shrimp, 6 of them, which were huge and served heads on, with shells. She had to take some time to de-shell them but they were delicious. The guacamole was good too, and we took that home too to eat later. She was later offered wet naps for her hands. We alerted the waitstaff that we were celebrating a birthday and were surprised with the most delightful birthday song and dessert, complete with sparklers. This was wonderful and complimentary. The Drinks: They serve wine by the bottle only. My friend ordered a passion fruit margarita and said it was the best margarita she ever had. It even included real passion fruit chunks! I only drank bottled water, they serve Evian, 110MX per bottle. All of this, and our bill was less than $100 USD (1500MX) total, with tip. We highly recommend Montemar on your trip to Cancún, whether you're traveling with your family, friends, or want a romantic dinner. The value is incredible and we were pleased with everything. In fact, we're going back tonight! See you soon @montemarcancun! read more

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Dissatisfied The pictures and presentation looked great! Unfortunately the octopus was extremely chewy/raw, asked for it to be cooked for longer and came back just slightly less chewy. Everything else we ordered was average. The place is very cool and instagramable. But will not be coming back read more

Montemar - Pulpo - Mexican Near Me - Cancún, ROO

Definitely some highlights here but the 1 star cemented with the a5 "kobe beef." I've had Japanese wagyu many times and it is always super tender, nicely marbled and delicious. This meat was so tough the server couldn't even cut it. After cooking, it was just as tough to eat, basically inedible. When we told the server about it he agreed with us an said it isn't supposed to look like that. However we were still charged ($3960). Seafood dip appetizer and the bone marrow corn were great and the miso cod was good. read more

This place was a really nice looking restaurant. Beautiful outside seating area with a very friendly & knowledgeable staff that speak pretty good English (which is helpful for those you don't speak Spanish). The tequila selection is out of bounds and very good pricing at that, I like how they bring the bottle to your table and pour it in front of you. We started with the beet salad which is excellent and then moved onto a New York strip that was just ok. I feel the steak could have been better since this place was a steak house but none the less all around it was a excellent night with great company. read more

Montemar - Beet salad - Mexican Near Me - Cancún, ROO

I've been a few times now & my family loves this place! We've gone for an late lunch early dinner! The staff speaks & understands very good English. Menus are in English. The ambiance is beautiful peaceful & elegant. People are dressed in country club attire. The tacos with marrow are fantastic (2 orders every time) the bone marrow app is good size & flavor with a side of onions cilantro & peppers, but don't ignore the fresh sprig of rosemary. This last time we had a birthday so we did only apps & saved room for dessert! (See photos) my recommendation for Desserts are the churro & the donuts. We were able to share 3 Desserts between 5 people! read more

Montemar - The donuts - Mexican Near Me - Cancún, ROO

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Montemar looks absolutely stunning from the outside, and the menu looked amazing, so I had this high on my list to visit on one of my trips. Problem was, for the low season it was always closed for lunch and I never found time to make it for dinner. On my most recent trip I made it a point of finally having a dinner here with my mom. Since I wasn't planning to return any time soon, my mom and I ordered way too much food, the servers did warn me lol, but we insisted on trying it all. I was somewhat surprised to see the menu had a lot more than just steaks, which pleased us. We opted to try 4 different appetizers, the Crackling Ribeye and the Crackling Pork were both great, but that pork definitely won and I could have eaten wayyy more of this. The Peanut Sauce Tuna Tartare was "different" for lack of a better term, and the forth appetizer has been loss from my memory, so it must have been only so-so. Since the server warned us we would the servers alone were too much (he was right) we decided to share a steak, an Aged Ribeye, and got a side of Grilled Onion. The steak was pretty good, cooked nicely, but that onion has been on my mind ever since. Served "blossom" style and just simple grilled, it was tasty and beautiful. The ambiance was pretty, and we sat outside to enjoy the weather. Of course this meant the mosquitoes enjoyed us, but the servers brought over bug spray and insisted on applying it to us themselves lol. Definitely a restaurant for a special occasion! read more

Great dinner, amazing service, great location . I will come again . Staff was extremely helpful

Awesome food, especially seafood tacos. Different sauces provides all kinds of flavors. Beautiful view of the Bay and super convenient if you stay at Renaissance nearby. read more

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Surprisingly good steak. Had the ribeye. The cocktail situation is confusing since there's no menu - and if you don't know Spanish or have an English speaking waiter - good luck! It was a fun spot tho. Everything was tasty. read more

10/10 for overall dinner experience! We were staying at the Renaissance which was just walking distance from it. The menu looked tasty so we decided to give it a go. The food is amazing! Their tostadas are a must try! What made our dinner even a better experience was the exceptional service given by our server, Antonio! Will definitely have to come back next time we're in Cancun again! read more

Excellent dining, steaks were perfect. Liff was our servers and very helpful and spoke English. His vine knowledge was wonderful. Great ambiance and would highly suggest. read more

Nice place, fresh seafood, really love the oysters and ceviche. Good place to eat fresh seafood

I went there with my family for my little brother's birthday and we all got food poisoning. We spent all night vomiting and with fever from this. The food tasted good when we had it but clearly not very sanitary. read more

Montemar is one of the best steakhouses I've tried in the Cancun area. The ambiance and decor is top rate. I had the Filete Cerro Prieto which was full of flavor and paired well with mashed potatoes and a mushroom gravy. The wine list is complete and the prices are well within reason for one of the most exclusive venues in the Hotel Zone. read more