Acapulco, Mexico
Zibu
Zibu sits on Acapulco's Escénica highway, where the Pacific drops away below and Mexican seafood cooking takes a format shaped by the coast itself.
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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Acapulco from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Acapulco
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Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante in Costa Azul has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Its international cuisine has Mediterranean influences, with seafood and steaks served a la carte alongside classical music. Cello in Cabo Marqués is a cliffside Northern Italian restaurant within Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués, with Pacific Ocean views. It has an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and an a la carte menu.
Zibu in Fracc. Glomar serves Mex-Thai fusion in a cliffside setting overlooking the bay. Its wine list accompanies craft cocktails and an a la carte menu. The restaurant appears in La Liste's 2025 Top Restaurants with 77.5 points. Bellavista Restaurant in Las Brisas serves international cuisine a la carte, with an extensive wine list, a beer program, and craft cocktails. The restaurant has bay views and retro-contemporary design.
Places with the strongest wine programs
One restaurant, Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante, has an exceptional wine program, and two, Cello and Zibu, have wine lists.
Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante
In Costa Azul, Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante pairs international cooking with Mediterranean influences and an exceptional wine program. It has an extensive wine list. It serves seafood and steaks a la carte, with classical music.
Cello
Cello in Cabo Marqués is a cliffside Northern Italian restaurant inside Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués. It has an extensive wine list, along with craft cocktails, and the menu is a la carte.
Zibu
Zibu in Fracc. Glomar brings Mex-Thai fusion to a cliffside setting and keeps a wine list alongside craft cocktails. The menu is a la carte. La Liste scores the restaurant 77.5 points for 2025.
Resort hotels that anchor the scene
Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués and Quinta Real Acapulco sit in Punta Diamante, and Las Brisas Acapulco sits in Condesa Beach.
Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués
Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués in Punta Diamante is an exclusive clifftop villa hotel with private infinity pools and panoramic Pacific and bay views. It holds a Michelin 1 Key for 2026 and La Liste Top Hotels recognition for 2026.
Quinta Real Acapulco
Quinta Real Acapulco sits in Punta Diamante as a cliffside retreat with sweeping ocean views. The property combines contemporary luxury and traditional Mexican charm. It holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025.
Las Brisas Acapulco
Las Brisas Acapulco in Condesa Beach is a cliffside hotel of casitas with private pools, and it has 251 rooms overlooking Acapulco Bay. It is associated with the city's mid-century glamour era. The hotel holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025 and Preferred Hotels membership for 2025.
Planning FAQ
Which neighbourhoods matter most for serious wine lists in Acapulco?
Costa Azul, Cabo Marqués, and Fracc. Glomar are the neighbourhoods with the serious wine lists in our guide. Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante in Costa Azul has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Cello in Cabo Marqués has an extensive wine list. Zibu in Fracc. Glomar has a wine list.
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Acapulco?
Acapulco has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Zibu in Fracc. Glomar holds La Liste Top Restaurants recognition for 2025. It serves Mex-Thai fusion a la carte and has a wine list and craft cocktails.
Where should I look for the best wine-led restaurant?
Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante in Costa Azul has the exceptional wine program in our guide. The restaurant has an extensive wine list and serves international cooking with Mediterranean influences, seafood, and steaks a la carte, alongside classical music.
Which places on this page have Wine Spectator awards?
No Acapulco venue in our guide holds a Wine Spectator award. Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante in Costa Azul has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Cello in Cabo Marqués has an extensive wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Where to eat in Acapulco
Selected entries from the current guide for Acapulco.
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Bellavista Restaurant
Bellavista Restaurant belongs to Acapulco’s view-led dining tradition, where the meal is shaped as much by the bay and hillside setting as by the kitchen. With sparse public detail on awards, chef, pricing, and format, the useful reading is contextual: treat it as part of Las Brisas’ polished resort-dining circuit rather than a chef-counter destination.
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Carmenère Acapulco Restaurante
On Acapulco's Costera Miguel Alemán, Carmenère sits within a dining scene shaped by Pacific proximity and Guerrero's agricultural interior. The restaurant draws on the coastal city's dual identity as a historic resort and a market town with deep indigenous food traditions. For visitors tracing Mexico's regional cuisines, it belongs on the same itinerary as the city's seafood-forward competition.
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Cello
Cello sits in Punta Diamante, where Acapulco dining is shaped by resort demand, Pacific seafood, and a guest base that expects polish without losing sight of the coast. The useful way to read it is through sourcing: in this part of Guerrero, freshness and restraint matter more than theatrical plating or imported luxury cues.
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Where to stay in Acapulco
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Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués
Perched on the cliffs of Acapulco's Diamante zone, Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués trades the bay's high-rise density for 45 stilted pool villas with Pacific views and a design language that fuses Mexican vernacular with Southeast Asian restraint. Rated 96.5 points on La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels list and just 20 minutes from Acapulco International Airport, it represents the cleaner alternative to the city's older resort tier.
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Las Brisas Acapulco
Las Brisas Acapulco is a hillside resort with 251 rooms overlooking Acapulco Bay, long associated with the city's mid-century glamour era when the Pacific coast drew an international set. The property sits within a peer group that includes large-format Mexican resort hotels, positioned for travellers seeking scale and bay views over boutique intimacy.
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Quinta Real Acapulco
Quinta Real Acapulco holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction in Mexico's 2025 guide, placing it among a small cohort of Acapulco properties recognised for accommodation quality. Set along Paseo de la Quinta, the hotel draws on the architectural language that defines the Quinta Real brand, spaces designed to foreground their physical surroundings rather than compete with them. For travellers approaching the Pacific coast seriously, it represents a credentialled entry point into the city.
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Fairmont Heritage Place Acapulco Diamante
Fairmont Heritage Place Acapulco Diamante belongs to Acapulco’s residential-luxury side rather than its classic hotel circuit.
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Where to go for a drink in Acapulco
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Which wineries to visit in Acapulco
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