Mazatlan Historic Center

MAZATLAN HISTORICAL CENTER

Mazatlan is a beautiful city full of life of its own making, (in my view) of course it’s full of tourists from all over the world but it has not lost the real Mexican flavor. The old center of town it is a enchantment of old buildings, plazas, market places, as well as public vendors selling palletas (ice cream on a stick), raspados de fruta,(shredded fruit juice), elote (barbeque corn) and anything else that you can think of.
The center of attraction from the Historical Centro is the famous Plaza Machado (or Plazuela for the locals), this is a gathering place for any body in quest of good surroundings, first-rate music, excellent food and a pleasant atmosphere. The Plaza has very excellent displays of tropical plants and Palms trees and of course the infallible gazebo in the center of it so people can go walking around most of them displaying the best attires and accessories.
In the evening time (about 7 to 8 o’clock) you will see a lot of families walking around, also (of course) the Pretty Senoritas all nicely fully clad up, with their tight designer (expensive) jeans and high heel shoes, I guess looking for that fine looking young fellow that will change their life everlastingly (for good we hope).
Around the Plaza are streets encircling it, but on Thursdays to Sundays at about 6 o’clock in the evening all these streets are closed to traffic so the restaurants that surround the Plaza can set up their fancy linen cover tables on the streets, so the whole boundary of the Plaza becomes a gigantic restaurant like, separated only by the distinctive types of chairs, and linen colors
Of course there are a lot of them and all of them with excellent food variety and magnificent flavors from Mexican cuisine (hot and hotter) to dishes from all-around the world. One restaurant in particular is my preference, it is called the Beach-Burger, and where I indulged my self on a thick juice hamburger with French Fries (American style) topped with guacamole and some delectable Chihuahua cheese, shredded lettuce, tomatoes and champignons. Other times (We were there almost every day) we had salads and all kinds of diverse dishes, all very well prepared and bountiful, so much so that most the times we could not finish the meals.
Of course excellent Margaritas (we are in Mexico aren’t we) and virtually any kind of beer that you can imagine. The help was outstanding and amiable to excess some times, and our favored excellent head waiter is Pilar and a very nice chap on top of it. We spent this year New Years Eve there it was an very pleasant occasion with superior food and drinks it was a memorable experience.

Pilar, the head waiter and head honcho

At the gazebo the fantastic talented Cuban band was performing that made the evening very delightful indeed. Of course not the whole thing was perfect (on my view of course) in concert with the two very smashed guys near our table that at midnight lit up the Cuban cigars (telephone poles on fire) that stink like exotic caca de baca and they were accompanied by this fastidious elderly lady that danced sitting on her chair bouncing vigorously up and down and from side to side at the beat of the Latin music from the gazebo like she was viciously blast by scorching electrical dance Gods from hell.
On Fridays to Sunday evenings, the people get serenaded by all kinds of very good music from four or five different bands that come to play at the plaza for some delightful entertaining for all the people strolling around the Plaza Machado or dining al fresco in all the good restaurants surrounding this quaint, historical Plaza.

Very impresing band..!!!


One of my favorites is a very talented guitar performer and singer, (Rafael Rodriguez) that plays on Sunday evenings, this gentleman sings in four or five different languages and with a vast repertoire or songs very melodically performed making it very pleasing to watch and listening while having a mouth-watering enchilada dinner or savoring a scrumptious Margarita.