Los Jarochos del 28

Let me first talk about Mercado 28 a little bit. Mercado 28 is a full city block-​sized market jammed with vendors selling all sorts of trinkets. Several restaurants are interspersed through Mercado 28. The market vendors, understandably so, are very aggressive in trying to get you to stop and look at/​buy their wares.
An important point, if you drove to Mercado 28 and parked there at night, be very very cognizant of where you have parked. What I’m getting at is that there are four parking lots at Mercado 28. They are configured around the market like blades on a windmill, and the parking lots all look alike. When you exit the maze of vendor stalls to one of the lots, you may not be aware of which exact parking lot you are in — and when you don’t see your car, you might gasp, «Our car has been stolen!»
But keep calm, your car has not been stolen. You are in the wrong lot. Simply walk around the block and check out the next parking lot. And if it is not there either, proceed to the next lot. In our case, we finally found our car in the very last parking lot. Sigh of relief.
Los Jarochos is a seafood/​cockteleria restaurant in Mercado 28. We picked here for having dinner because it was crowded, usually an indication of good quality. As it turned, out a couple of our dishes were wonderful and the rest less impressive, but still decent.
We were served complimentary tortilla chips that lack crispness, seemingly having absorbed Cancun’s humidity. But I quickly forgot about the chips as I dove into my delicious crema de langosta (lobster) soup (which also contained onion and ham). JP had a most excellent Veracruz seafood cocktail that was packed with oysters, octopus, scallops and shrimp. The cocktail also contained onion and avocado. The sweet cocktail juice was ultra delicious.
For entrées, I had shrimp empanadas and JP had stuffed squid. My empanadas were filled with shrimp, tomato, onion, cheese, and red pepper. Pretty good overall. The stuffed squid started out with the disadvantage that it was served lukewarm and the cheese on top of the squid had not melted. Also, it looked like the dish’s components had been splattered onto the plate. The squid was stuffed with octopus, bell pepper and tomato and cheese. Accompanying the squid was garlic rice. But overall the dish was okay.
Service was very good, but we were a little offput by the mandatory 15% tip that had been tacked onto our bill. Still, we would come back for the crema de langosta soup and Veracruz cocktail. They’re worth it!

En el corazón del mercado 28, un restaurante Veracruzano con sus especialidades en mariscos, es ya una tradición para los ciudadanos de Cancún y agenda de los guías de turistas que llevan sus grupos a este mercado turístico.
Su coctelería es de muy buena calidad y compite muy bien con otras que se encuentran en el mismo sitio, tienen siempre tríos y músicos del Huapango jarocho con su famosos «Tilín tilón» animando el lugar y la ocasión que lo visité, alternaba con unos marimberos que casi siempre se les ve en el mismo lugar.
El famoso «Vuelve a la Vida» sigue siendo de lo mejor, La parrillada para dos personas, si alcanza para dos en realidad, la sopa de mariscos y el callo de hacha con camarones ya sea en ceviche o coctail, son otros dos platos por los que deben preguntar.
Es un quiosco al aire libre que lo hace ser un área fresca, la música no se interrumpe y la atención al cliente es absolutamente profesional, te hacen sentir en familia y los precios dentro de lo decente.
La cocina Jarocha es muy representativa del país con fama mundial y reconocida y aceptada por los turistas del extranjero, pero donde identificas el sello especial del sazón, es cuando en materia de coctelería y ceviches, tiene un toque de olivo y hierbas, que no sólo es limón y sal lo que debe llevar un ceviche, y esto es fácilmente identificable al probarlos en este lugar, tienen ese toque exquisito y la frescura del marisco no se cuestiona.
Me gusta y sobre todo que no es tan caro, hay otros sitios dentro del mercado 28 que por la fama que tienen son un poco más elevado de precio, no son malos, pero si un poco más caros que este.