Ruinas Chimulco Restaurante - Amatitán

Chimulco restaurant is a great place for any occasion or party, family or friends, romantic dinner, birthday or just a beautiful meal. eating here is very good, my girl and I tried a stone oven pizza recommended by our waiter and pizza...and do not disappoint us at all. it was a beautiful meal with a beautiful bottle of wine. after dinner a walk through a cave next to the restaurant is simply fantastic and how this cave was formed by water, also a walk through the restaurant to experience these ruins is a must. chimulco restaurant is a little hard to find if they are not familiar with amatitan jalisco, but if they are on the square of the city (plasza grande) just ask someone where the chimulco restaurant is and they will it to him. there are only about 100 meters from the square of the city (plasza grande.) familia delgado and their employees will ensure that they and their friends have a great time with a great meal. if they ever visit “ruta agavera” and are close to amatitan jalisco, this is a must visit place, they will not be disappointed.

A family entering the family has transformed Amatitán's impressive ruinas de chimulco into a restaurant that is not only charming and picturesque, but I will dare to say unique because his table pool is fed by a qanat, a type of underground aqueduct that was invented 3000 years ago in Persia. amatitán is located 33 kilometers northwest of guadalajara and is worth visiting when only to see its church – built by luis barragán, the most famous architects mexikos, who houses four “forgeted” paintings of the famous wall painter josé clemente orozco. Moreover, amatitán claims to be the true birthplace of tequila and has an impressive museum that can prove exactly that. In 2010, the Amatitán officials asked my Caving Club to carve the qanat, who has delivered water to a pool along the plaza for centuries. this we have done, discovered four passages of a total length of 113 meters, with an air temperature of 18 degrees and 83 percent humidity. Previously we had passed our map to the community when a local guide told us about another qanat called el chimulco at the southeast end of the city. “Let’s have a look,” I told ezequiel garcía, and some days later I found myself with the kaver luis rojas and fledermausexperte leonel ayalla, which was fed by a doorway at an old swimming pool of four walls and a vaulted deck. the water came from the second qanat of the city that we turned out to be almost 50 meters long, deep into the nearby hills to a place where water had been found years ago. we have examined the tunnels, the local beamed our map handed out and heard nothing more about the place, until a few days ago when I learned that el chimulco was now a restaurant. “Let’s check this out,” I told my wife susy and my friend rodrigo orozco. we found the place with difficult things, because el chimulco has neither a sign nor a street number. it is on the aurelio lópez street, 100 meters south of the plaza, exactly where number 37 would be, if someone attentive to pay in a small town. “It can’t be,” said rodrigo orozco. “It’s a monastery.” Now, some tempting smells came from the door of the convention, and as soon as we were inside, we discovered that we were actually in restaurante ruinas de chimulco, but there were no one who received us. that is because they still have about 85 meters from the entrance to the ruins to foot. they have no fear, they just go forward and they will soon come to a beautiful grazy area, dominated by the beautiful old ruins. when they come closer, they come to a narrow stream of fast-paced water. Now, there is a bridge over this small river, but of course no Gringo-style sign shows where this bridge is. only wander around them until they find it on their own and they will soon come to the main ruins that surrounds the qanat-fed pool. Earlier we had set ourselves on the tour table when we were visited by one of the owners of the place, mayra rosales. “These ruins are almost 300 years old,” she told us. “They go back to 1729. as they can see, the style here is Arabic. in Morokko you will find such pools that are enclosed by four walls. the dach over us is arched and no beams were used to support it.” pinkles told us this “casco de hacienda” (mini-hacienda was built by the leading families of amatitán to swim, eat and relax. “I’m 58 years old,” continued pink, “and I came to this place when I was eight years old with my mother, who would bring here a snaps of clothes to wash. along the river that flows from here, were rustic “lavaderos de piedra”, flat rocks for washing clothes with a brush and soap set up and I helped my mother do this chore with a small bucket I would fill and pour out.” she showed on two large pitayos that grow on the wall above the pool. “I remember seeing the pitayos as a little girl and they are still here! when my family bought this land, my man said we need to remove the pitayos because they could fall on someone. but I answered: “Look, if they have not fallen in 50 years, they will never fall.” so they are still here.” the people said to the family pinkles, they should make a balneario (water park) among these ruins, but mayra said no: “This would cause this place to be radically changed and we want to keep it as it is. Unfortunately, together with our food many also arrived. this, perhaps, will not be a problem after darkness when most of these restaurants show up and the place looks truly spectacular. after eating we strolled into the qanat, where a board walk was installed and the lights shudded. the fact that water after 300 years still flows through this tunnel is certificate for the reliability of a technology that spreads from Persia to China, to rom and – over arabies – to spania from which it was carried into the new world. in the did, guadalajara may not be there where it is today if a huge system of qanat tunnels had not been dug into the hills over la venta del astillero (all away to nextipac), so that this important point along the camino real with water in the dry season. after drinking a local tequila or eating in el chimulco, I suggest they stretch their legs by going south of restaurant 100 meters to a huge, spectacular arch. only 170 meters beyond the arc you will find the ruins of taberna ardillera, one of many destilleria in or near amatitán. to really appreciate these and many other historical sites in this city, you might want to visit Aventuratemx.com, which organizes tours of amatitán sites, including old tabernas, modern distillateries and of course el chimulco ruin and restaurant. call them omar ceja to whatsapp 331 944 6728. drive to west from guadalajara in direction nogales, to “libre” autobahn 15 west 38 kilometers to amatitán. when they descend into the city, they will notice a cemetery on the right side. beyond the friedhof, on the left side, is calle niños heroes. it is the first street of amatitán, on the left side, so keep their eyes open. turn left onto this road and it will turn south, 643 meters, directly to amatitáns plaza. the driving time from the edge of guadalajara to the square is about 35 minutes.

Chimulco restaurant is a great place for any occasion or celebration, family or friends, romantic dinner, birthday, or just a nice meal. Food here is very good, my girl and I tried a stone oven pizza that was recommended by our waiter and the pizza...did not disappoint us at all. It was a nice meal with a nice bottle of wine. After dinner a walk through a cave next to the restaurant is just fantastic and how this cave was form by water, also a walk around the restaurant to experience these ruins is a must. Chimulco restaurant is a bit hard to find if you are not familiar with Amatitan Jalisco, but if you can get to the town’s square (plaza grande) just ask anyone there where the Chimulco restaurant is and they will direct you to it. Its only about yards from the town’s square (plaza grande). Familia Delgado and their staff will make sure you and your friends will have a great time with a great meal. If you are ever visiting “ruta agavera” and are near Amatitan Jalisco this is a must place to visit, you will not be disappointed

An enterprising family has transformed Amatitán’s impressive Ruinas de Chimulco into a restaurant which is not only charming and picturesque, but, I’ll venture to say, unique, because its table-side pool is fed by a qanat, a kind of underground aqueduct which was invented in Persia 3000 years ago.Amatitán is located 33 kilometers northwest of Guadalajara and is worth visiting if only to see its church—reconstructed by Luis Barragán, Mexico’s most famous architect, which houses four “forgotten” paintings by famed muralist José Clemente Orozco. On top of that, Amatitán claims to be the true birthplace of tequila and has an impressive museum which purports to prove just that.In 2010, Amatitán officials asked my caving club to map the qanat which has supplied water to a pool alongside the plaza for centuries. This we did, discovering four passages totaling 113 meters in length, with an air temperature of 18 degrees and 83 percent humidity. No sooner had we handed our map over to the municipality than a local tourist guide told us about another qanat called El Chimulco, located at the southeastern end of town. “Let’s have a look,” I told Ezequiel García, and several days later I found myself with caver Luis Rojas and bat expert Leonel Ayalla, peering through a doorway at an ancient swimming pool enclosed by four walls and an arched ceiling.The water was coming from the town’s second qanat, which we turned out to be nearly 50 meters long, reaching deep into the nearby hillside to a spot where water had been found ages ago.We surveyed the tunnels, handed local officials our map and heard nothing more about the place until a few days ago when I learned that El Chimulco was now a restaurant. “Let’s check it out,” I told my wife Susy and friend Rodrigo Orozco.We found the place with some difficulty, since El Chimulco has neither a sign nor a street number. It’s on Aurelio López Street, 100 meters south of the plaza, right where number 37 would be if anyone paid attention to numbers in a small town. “That can’t be it,” said Rodrigo Orozco. “It’s a convent.”Well, some enticing smells were coming from the doorway of that “convent,” and once we were inside, we discovered we had indeed entered Restaurante Ruinas de Chimulco, but there was no one there to receive us. That’s because you still have to walk some 85 meters from the entrance to the ruins. Don’t be afraid, just continue walking forward and you will soon come to a beautiful grassy area, dominated by the gorgeous old ruins. As you approach closer, you’ll come to a narrow stream of fast-moving water. Well, there’s a bridge over this little river, but, of course, no gringo-style sign showing where that bridge is. Just wander about until you find it on your own and you will soon arrive at the principal ruin enclosing the qanat-fed pool.No sooner had we sat down at tour table than we were visited by one of the owners of the place, Mayra Rosales. “These ruins are almost 300 years old,” she told us. “They go back to 1729. As you can see, the style here is Arabian. You can find pools like this, enclosed by four walls, in Morocco. The roof above us is vaulted and no beams were used to support it.”Rosales told us this “casco de hacienda” (mini-hacienda?) had been built by the leading families of Amatitán for swimming, dining and relaxing.“I am 58 years old,” continued Rosales, “and I came to this place when I was eight years old with my mother, who would bring a tubful of clothes here to wash. All along the river that flows out of here were rustic “lavaderos de piedra,” flat rocks set up for washing clothes with a brush and soap and I helped my mother do this chore with a little bucket I would fill up and pour out.”She pointed to two tall pitayos growing on the wall above the pool. “I remember looking up at those pitayos as a little girl...and they are still here! When my family bought this land, my husband said we have to remove those pitayos because they could fall on top of somebody. But I replied, ‘look, if they haven’t fallen down during 50 years, they’re never going to fall down.’ So they are still here.”People told the Rosales family they should make a balneario (water park) among these ruins, but Mayra said no: “That would result in radically changing this place and we want to conserve it as it is...even though, I must admit, everyone in Amatitán learned to swim right here in this pool.”During our meal we got to try several of El Chimulco’s specialty dishes, including Pineapple Stuffed with Shrimp, which I found delicious. Unfortunately, along with our food, plenty of flies arrived as well. Be prepared! This, perhaps, will not be a problem after dark, when most of this restaurant’s clients show up and the place really looks spectacular.After eating, we strolled into the qanat, where a board walk has been installed and lights strung. The fact that water is still flowing through these tunnels after 300 years is testimony to the reliability of a technology which spread from Persia to China, to Rome, and—via Arabia—to Spain, from which it was carried to the new world. Indeed, Guadalajara might not be situated where it is today if a vast system of qanat tunnels had not been dug in the hills above La Venta del Astillero (all the way to Nextipac), providing this important waypoint along the Camino Real with water during the dry season.After drinking a local tequila or dining at El Chimulco, I suggest you stretch your legs by walking south from the restaurant 100 meters to a huge, spectacular arch. Only 170 meters beyond the arch you will find the ruins of the Taberna Ardillera, one of many distilleries located in or near Amatitán. To really appreciate this and many other historical sites around this town, you might want to check out Aventuratemx.com which organizes tours of Amatitán’s attractions, including ancient tabernas, modern-day distilleries and, of course, El Chimulco ruins and restaurant. Call Omar Ceja at Whatsapp 331 944 6728.How to get thereDrive west out Guadalajara toward Nogales, following “libre” highway 15 west 38 kilometers to Amatitán. As you descend to the town, you’ll notice a cemetery on your right. Across from the cemetery, on your left, is Calle Niños Heroes. It’s the very first street of Amatitán, on the left hand side, so keep your eyes open. Turn left onto this street and it will take you south, 643 meters, directly to Amatitán’s Plaza. The driving time from the edge of Guadalajara to the plaza is about 35 minutes.

An enterprising family has transformed Amatitán’s impressive Ruinas de Chimulco into a restaurant which is not only charming and picturesque, but, I’ll venture to say, unique, because its table-side pool is fed by a qanat, a kind of underground aqueduct which was invented in years ago. Amatitán is located kilometers northwest of Guadalajara and is worth visiting if only to see its church—reconstructed by Luis Barragán, Mexico’s most famous architect, which houses four “forgotten” paintings by famed muralist José Clemente Orozco. On top of that, Amatitán claims to be the true birthplace of tequila and has an impressive museum which purports to prove just that. In Amatitán officials asked my caving club to map the qanat which has supplied water to a pool alongside the plaza for centuries. This we did, discovering four passages totaling meters in length, with an air temperature of degrees and percent humidity. No sooner had we handed our map over to the municipality than a local tourist guide told us about another qanat called El Chimulco, located at the southeastern end of town. “Let’s have a look,” I told Ezequiel García, and several days later I found myself with caver Luis Rojas and bat expert Leonel Ayalla, peering through a doorway at an ancient swimming pool enclosed by four walls and an arched ceiling. The water was coming from the town’s second qanat, which we turned out to be nearly meters long, reaching deep into the nearby hillside to a spot where water had been found ages ago. We surveyed the tunnels, handed local officials our map and heard nothing more about the place until a few days ago when I learned that El Chimulco was now a restaurant. “Let’s check it out,” I told my wife Susy and friend Rodrigo Orozco. We found the place with some difficulty, since El Chimulco has neither a sign nor a street number. It’s on Aurelio López Street, meters south of the plaza, right where number would be if anyone paid attention to numbers in a small town. “That can’t be it,” said Rodrigo Orozco. “It’s a convent.” Well, some enticing smells were coming from the doorway of that “convent,” and once we were inside, we discovered we had indeed entered Restaurante Ruinas de Chimulco, but there was no one there to receive us. That’s because you still have to walk some meters from the entrance to the ruins. Don’t be afraid, just continue walking forward and you will soon come to a beautiful grassy area, dominated by the gorgeous old ruins. As you approach closer, you’ll come to a narrow stream of fast-moving water. Well, there’s a bridge over this little river, but, of course, no gringo-style sign showing where that bridge is. Just wander about until you find it on your own and you will soon arrive at the principal ruin enclosing the qanat-fed pool. No sooner had we sat down at tour table than we were visited by one of the owners of the place, Mayra Rosales. “These ruins are almost years old,” she told us. “They go back to As you can see, the style here is Arabian. You can find pools like this, enclosed by four walls, in Morocco. The roof above us is vaulted and no beams were used to support it.” Rosales told us this “casco de hacienda” (mini-hacienda had been built by the leading families of Amatitán for swimming, dining and relaxing. “I am years old,” continued Rosales, “and I came to this place when I was eight years old with my mother, who would bring a tubful of clothes here to wash. All along the river that flows out of here were rustic “lavaderos de piedra,” flat rocks set up for washing clothes with a brush and soap and I helped my mother do this chore with a little bucket I would fill up and pour out.” She pointed to two tall pitayos growing on the wall above the pool. “I remember looking up at those pitayos as a little girl...and they are still here! When my family bought this land, my husband said we have to remove those pitayos because they could fall on top of somebody. But I replied, ‘look, if they haven’t fallen down during years, they’re never going to fall down.’ So they are still here.” People told the Rosales family they should make a balneario (water park) among these ruins, but Mayra said no: “That would result in radically changing this place and we want to conserve it as it is...even though, I must admit, everyone in Amatitán learned to swim right here in this pool.” During our meal we got to try several of El Chimulco’s specialty dishes, including Pineapple Stuffed with Shrimp, which I found delicious. Unfortunately, along with our food, plenty of flies arrived as well. Be prepared! This, perhaps, will not be a problem after dark, when most of this restaurant’s clients show up and the place really looks spectacular. After eating, we strolled into the qanat, where a board walk has been installed and lights strung. The fact that water is still flowing through these tunnels after years is testimony to the reliability of a technology which spread from Persia to China, to Rome, and—via Arabia—to Spain, from which it was carried to the new world. Indeed, Guadalajara might not be situated where it is today if a vast system of qanat tunnels had not been dug in the hills above La Venta del Astillero (all the way to Nextipac), providing this important waypoint along the Camino Real with water during the dry season. After drinking a local tequila or dining at El Chimulco, I suggest you stretch your legs by walking south from the restaurant meters to a huge, spectacular arch. Only meters beyond the arch you will find the ruins of the Taberna Ardillera, one of many distilleries located in or near Amatitán. To really appreciate this and many other historical sites around this town, you might want to check out Aventuratemx.com which organizes tours of Amatitán’s attractions, including ancient tabernas, modern-day distilleries and, of course, El Chimulco ruins and restaurant. Call Omar Ceja at Whatsapp How to get there Drive west out Guadalajara toward Nogales, following “libre” highway west kilometers to Amatitán. As you descend to the town, you’ll notice a cemetery on your right. Across from the cemetery, on your left, is Calle Niños Heroes. It’s the very first street of Amatitán, on the left hand side, so keep your eyes open. Turn left onto this street and it will take you south, meters, directly to Amatitán’s Plaza. The driving time from the edge of Guadalajara to the plaza is about minutes