I was recently in Cozumel 10/18-10/23 and dinned at an interesting restaurant that deserves mention. I was to meet some friends, who live in Cozumel, for dinner. My friends know I like places that aren't necessarily overrun with tourists and offer a more authentic local dinning experience, they recommended a place they been going to called Albinos, located on 20th Ave norte between 10th & 12th calle. Albinos is located in a residential area on the second story with an open air dinning room, the menu is in Spanish and little, if no English is spoken. The menu is divided into sections: meats, seafood, chicken and has multiple selections of each. We had appetizers of salsa and chips, bean dip and a hot dish with Conch, all were very tasty. For the main course I had the whole snapper fried and it was great. I didn't see what every one had, but did notice the person sitting next to me had shrimp tacos with lots of melted cheese and they looked yummy and everyone else said they enjoyed their meal. I didn't try it, but noticed they sold lobster by the kilo, which I thought was interesting. When presented with our check it was a pleasant surprise, our total bill came to about $12 per person including cocktails, which I thought was excellent considering almost everyone had seafood. If you are looking for something a little different away from the more "touristy" parts of town, then I would give Albino's a try. Kim S.

Posted by Kat on 07/18/01

My family and I were just in Cozumel the week of 7/1-7/8 (it was heaven) and on one of our visits to Zhul-Ha my husband met a gentleman by the name of Michael Lawrence who also happens to be the author/photographer for the Lonely Planet book series. Besides being an extremely nice and interesting person he turned us on to a great restaurant called Albinos.  It's a little further into town, away from the commercialized strip, but let me tell you well worth the few extra dollars on the taxi ride.  We were a family of four who ordered appetizers, fresh red snapper (presented to us before they grilled it) with fresh vegetables, rice, beans, guacamole, deserts, 4 beers, 2 sodas and the bill came out to $35.00!!  It was so good and the service was so awesome my husband tipped them an extra $25.00.  He refused to pay less than that.  Compared to the dinners we had the previous nights with tabs in excess of $100.00, this was the best.  So if your planning a trip soon, make sure to pay them a visit, you won't regret it!

Trudy, if your reading this, Eduardo from the Arrecifes sends his best!