El Jardin - Playa del Carmen

Great food and service! The owners are AMAZING, gracious, informative and inviting. They embrace their restaurant like you are an invited guest into their home. The food was delicious, the surroundings beautiful and so tranquil. Totally worth the block and a half walk off of 5h. Best meal I've had in Playa.

Amazing food, great service! We were the only ones there on a Fri morning. It was beautiful and the food was freshly made right where you could watch. Live music on Fri nights.

First off, this place doesn't look like much from the street (probably a good thing) but once you enter, you realize that most of the seating is outdoors in an amazing multi-level courtyard. We had an excellent meal starting with the best tasting tortilla chips I've ever had (real corn flavor with just the right amount of salt) and their Mole was also excellent. The best meal we had on our trip by far. Will definitely go back,

This is The cuttet little place In playa to have lunch or breakfast. We had a fantastic ceviche and the most amazing molè I have ever tasted. The personnel deserves 5 stars by themselves. It will be my first place to go when back in playa

This place serves delicious lunch food. The soups are terrific and the lunch special is a good value though the menu is also a perfectly good place to start. The atmosphere is charming jungle oasis. Only open for breakfast and lunch except for Friday’s. We never understood why the place wasn’t always packed. We don’t have children but those we saw enjoyed the jungle environment (and were all well behaved).We are a mid-forties American professional couple with no children. We have lived in Chicago, NY, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and Hong Kong. We travel and eat a lot of local cuisines and have visited Playa del Carmen >12 times since 2002 including 9 weeks between November 2016 and March 2017.