La Marea Restaurant by Viceroy - 77710 Playa del Camen

Amazing food and service everytime. Everything on the menu is excellent, and the environment can't be beat. Highly recommend this place to all.

The best dining experience we have had in a long time. The food and the service were World class.

This 5-star review is for a truly 5-star restaurant and incredible dining experience. We were seeking to have 2 first-class dinners while in the Riviera Maya (the other experience was at Benazuza). We chose La Marea after researching it on Tripadvisor, Google and elsewhere, looking at photos and reading credible reviews. La Marea did not fail to deliver on a perfect dining experience. The restaurant is located inside the Viceroy Riviera Maya hotel. It was really hard to find, but that made the experience all that more enjoyable. The Viceroy is the definition of a hidden gem. We were received in a palapa in the reception area of this beautiful property. It was night and the the hotel employee accompanied us through lighted pathways through the hotel’s grounds that are covered in lush foliage. The restaurant is located near the water’s edge and sits above the hotel’s lovely pool and overlooking the bar. The open air restaurant is very, very romantic and well-accoutered with comfortable seating, fine flatware and unique pottery. The menu and wine menu are impressively large, with many Mexican influences. There were so many choices on the regular menu that we could hardly decide what we wanted; they also have a tasting menu, so to have the most diverse dining experience, we chose to have that. I would like to say what great service we received from our waiter Sergio and all the other wait staff and hotel employees (they really make you feel like a VIP), and I would also like to praise Chef Carlos Zamora’s creative dishes: they all show the incredible quality of Mexican cuisine in the hands of an artist. Just for fun, we had a coatimundi come into the restaurant from the surrounding trees while we were dining, which was just so amusing to see (I don’t think it was his first time). If you want to celebrate a special occasion, or just want to celebrate life, please make a reservation and dine here!

We showed up for lunch and had a delightful fish taco and shrimp taco lunch with an incredible view of the water. Recommend it!

5 star all the way!!! Antonio and his team did an incredible job guiding us through wasn’t just dinner, but a legit 5 star adventure & experience. Every single ingredient is there with intention. Each dish is made with love. Each flavor is well thought out. Cannot recommend how this place wowed both us and our taste buds. You Will not be disappointed. Savor each morsel as well as the time and the gorgeous setting! We are going back tomorrow & the next night for sure! We are blown away by the viceroy!

Excellent service and food presentation. I had the lamb, my wife the ribeye. One little point about the restaurant, the lighting is low so the necessary picking through a ribeye was not possible. I would highly recommend all other entrees. Scallops were a bit "al dente.". We love good bread and it came with a delicious tapenade. Dessert was a good Italian sorbet with a cookie topped flan and a French meraigne. My wife's white wine and my cab were tasty. Update: back a second night several nights later. Better than the first night. Such cordial staff. They made us so comfortable. The food — excellent.

Found this place walking down the beach one night. We asked if the restaurant was open to public, as some resorts are guest only, and they were more than happy to accommodate us. The ambiance was dark and romantic with a lovely view of the pool area and beach. The food was spectacular. The menu was carefully curated and every detail is accounted for. This is also true in regards to the waitstaff. Extremely attentive, and elegant. I ordered the pork and my boyfriend ordered the rib eye. The pork was amazing and was to be eaten as tacos with handmade corn tortillas. The ribeye was perfectly cooked and great quality. It also came accompanied with handmade flour tortillas. In addition to our main course, we were brought in house made blue corn and huitlacoche bread, which was unique and delicious. For dessert we got the abuelita chocolate pastel, which we thought was the perfect end of the meal. But we were brought bite sized sampler of traditional Mexican candies as well as a dessert tequila drink. Overall five star experience. Would definitely recommend and return time and time again.

Amazing place. Was treated with the finest dining and most exquisite service. Took my girlfriend walking along the beach and stumbled here, not our hotel but they graciously took us in and gave us amazing service. The food was extremely delicious and came in many courses before and even after our main entrée. The staff were friendly and professional, we were treated to 5 star hospitality. Actually asked my date to be my girlfriend that night and the setting was perfect for it. Should I come back to Playa De Carmen, I'm most definitely giving this place another visit or even getting my stay here.