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The decor of Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant in Playa del Carmen is all designed and made by Maya artisan, in order to support Maya craft making traditions and the modern Maya economy. The woven placemats, pottery salsa bowls, decorative lamps, and the palm thatched palapa out front were all designed and made by Maya. Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant was created to bring an important side of Maya culture to Playa del Carmen's visitors, their culinary art. The restaurant is designed with elements from Maya architecture and temples. We are particularly proud of the restaurant walls, which are covered in stucco and painted in the same manner as Maya temples. The restaurant has recently undergone a complete renovation and expansion, and the new garden dining area looks like the main temple at the Tulum ruins.
As Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant expands, we plan to fund a small Maya farming community which will supply produce to the restaurant. Several Maya families would farm in the traditional fashion, leaving fields fallow and mixing crops within active fields. Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant has also produced Fuego
Nuevo, a nonprofit website, to educate the world about Maya
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Many
visitors to the Riviera Maya, Cancun and Playa del Carmen may miss
the fact that decedents of the Maya who built the pyramids at Coba
and temples of Chichen Itza still make up the majority of
the people in the Yucatan and Playa del Carmen. Visitors might go
to dinner for Mexican food, but what they are served are specialties
from northern Mexico, not native to the Yucatan peninsula. Yaxche
Maya Cuisine Restaurant in Playa del Carmen is a wonderful place
to try authentic regional dishes.
The
murals and sculptures were created by the Maya artist Luis Echeverria.
Don Luis lives in Ticul, a city near the fantastic Puuc-style ruins
of Uxmal, and creates replicas of Maya artifacts which only an expert
can distinguish from the original. In Yaxche Maya Cuisine Restaurant,
he has created columns, stellas, arches, and details like the sculpture
niches, all in imitation of actual Maya temples. Come by the restaurant
to see his work or visit his workshop in Ticul.