Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Cabo San Lucas from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Cabo San Lucas
Cocina de Autor Los Cabos holds the only Michelin star in our guide and serves a tasting menu and a set menu. Manta, Mezcal, and LaFrida Restaurant also serve tasting menus in Cabo San Lucas.
Cocina de Autor Los Cabos, in Cabo San Lucas, holds Michelin 1 Star for 2026 inside Grand Velas Los Cabos. The tasting menu is by Dutch chef Sidney Schutte, and chef Francisco Sixtos cooks multicourse menus of Mexican ingredients and global technique, with Baja seafood emphasized. The wine list is sommelier-led. It holds 89 points on La Liste in 2026.
Manta, in Cabo San Lucas, serves contemporary Mexican cooking with Peruvian and Japanese influences under chef Enrique Olvera, with open-flame technique at the center. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026. The room is oceanfront, with views of Cabo's Arch, and it offers a tasting menu and an a la carte menu. Wine Spectator gave Best of Award of Excellence for 2025.
Mezcal, in Cabo San Lucas, is the signature restaurant of Montage Los Cabos and runs a tasting menu alongside a la carte. The latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026. Wine Spectator gave Best of Award of Excellence. The list holds 450 selections and a 4,000-bottle inventory, skewed toward Mexico, California, and Champagne, with a dedicated sommelier team.
LaFrida Restaurant, in Cabo San Lucas, serves modern Oaxacan Mexican fine dining and offers both a tasting menu and a la carte. Wine Spectator gave an Award of Excellence for 2026. The wine list is extensive, and the bar pours craft cocktails. The restaurant sits inside Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach, with a Frida Kahlo-themed setting, live music, and ocean views.
Manta, Mezcal, and El Farallon hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and all three sit in Cabo San Lucas. Invita Bistro adds an exceptional wine program and a Star Wine List for 2026.
Manta, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025. The program is a 375-bottle wine list and a 4,000-inventory cellar. Contemporary Mexican cooking with Peruvian and Japanese influences, under chef Enrique Olvera, uses open-flame technique. The latest Michelin award is a Plate.
Mezcal, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026 and an exceptional wine program. The list holds 450 selections and a 4,000-bottle inventory, skewed toward Mexico, California, and Champagne, with a dedicated sommelier team. Craft cocktails are poured alongside the wine. The signature restaurant of Montage Los Cabos holds a Michelin Plate.
El Farallon, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026 and an exceptional wine program. The list is extensive and sommelier-led, with craft cocktails. Ocean-to-table seafood is served as a prix fixe or a la carte from a cliffside room over the Pacific. La Liste recognition is 75 points in 2026.
Invita Bistro, in Cabo San Lucas, holds an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list, with a Star Wine List award for 2026 and a White Star on Star Wine List in August 2025. The kitchen cooks authentic Southern Italian food from family recipes, including homemade pasta. The room sits across from the town square.
Comal, Los Tres Gallos, and Al Pairo at Solaz hold a Michelin Plate for 2026. Metate holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, and all four restaurants are in Cabo San Lucas.
Comal, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Michelin Plate for 2026, plus Forbes Recommended. Modern Mexican cooking with Latin influences is served a la carte, with a live-action raw bar of ceviche and crudo and oceanfront views of the Sea of Cortez. A wine and agave program accompanies craft cocktails at Chileno Bay Resort. La Liste recognition is 89 points.
Los Tres Gallos, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and has held a Michelin Plate since 2024. Traditional Mexican cooking from family recipes is served a la carte in an open-air courtyard with live mariachi. The wine program is minimal. Craft cocktails are poured with the meal.
Al Pairo at Solaz, in Cabo San Lucas, holds Michelin Plates for 2025 and 2026. Contemporary Mexican cooking is served a la carte, drawing on pre-Hispanic traditions, Baja ingredients, and seafood-focused dishes. The restaurant is inside the Solaz Luxury Collection Resort.
Metate, in Cabo San Lucas, holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026 and has held a Bib Gourmand since 2024. Chef Alexandre Vachon cooks traditional Mexican food, including wood-fired antojitos, grilled meats, and fresh fish in squid ink batter. Service is a la carte and small plates, with a wine list and craft cocktails.
Manta, Mezcal, and El Farallon hold the strongest wine lists in our guide. Each holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Manta keeps a 375-bottle wine list and a 4,000-inventory cellar. Mezcal lists 450 selections, skewed toward Mexico, California, and Champagne, with a dedicated sommelier team. El Farallon is sommelier-led.
Our guide counts one Michelin-starred restaurant in Cabo San Lucas and one Michelin star in total. Cocina de Autor Los Cabos holds that star inside Grand Velas Los Cabos. The tasting menu is by Dutch chef Sidney Schutte, and chef Francisco Sixtos works a multicourse format on Mexican ingredients and Baja seafood. The room also runs a set menu and a sommelier-led list.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Cocina de Autor Los Cabos, Manta, Mezcal, LaFrida Restaurant, Sunset Monalisa, and Craft Cabo, all in Cabo San Lucas. Japanese Kaiseki and Sushi Luna serves omakase and counter dining in Cabo San Lucas. Cocina de Autor Los Cabos also runs a set menu. Manta, Mezcal, LaFrida Restaurant, Sunset Monalisa, and Craft Cabo each offer a tasting menu beside a la carte.
Manta, Mezcal, and El Farallon hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Bar Esquina, LaFrida Restaurant, and Sunset Monalisa hold Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Citywide, our guide counts seven Awards of Excellence and three Best of Award of Excellence.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Cabo San Lucas
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Selected entries from the current guide for Cabo San Lucas.
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The tasting-menu restaurant inside Grand Velas Los Cabos holds La Liste recognition (89 points in 2026) and AAA 5 Diamond status, placing it at the premium end of the Tourist Corridor's dining tier. Chef Francisco Sixtos works a multicourse format that anchors Mexican ingredients to global technique, with strong emphasis on Baja seafood. Reservations are required; smart-casual dress code enforced, adults only.
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Manta brings Enrique Olvera's coastal Mexican vision to Cabo San Lucas, with open-flame technique at its center and a Michelin Plate to its name. The restaurant occupies the upper tier of Cabo's fine dining scene alongside Cocina de Autor and Comal, combining serious culinary credentials with a setting shaped by the Pacific. A 375-bottle wine list and 4,000-inventory cellar make this one of the more considered wine programs on the Baja peninsula.
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At Comal in Cabo San Lucas, oceanfront glamour meets contemporary Mexican cuisine—think Octopus Kastakan with plantain tortillas and a standout Pavlova—delivered with polished service and a smart, globally minded wine and agave program at Chileno Bay Resort.
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The signature restaurant of Montage Los Cabos, Mezcal holds a 2025 Michelin Plate and pairs Mexican cuisine with one of the peninsula's more serious wine programs: 450 selections, 4,000-bottle inventory, and a dedicated sommelier team. The wine list skews toward Mexico, California, and Champagne, while the food price point sits at $$$. Reservations are advisable for dinner.
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Metate earns its 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmand by doing what Baja California coastal cooking does at its most honest: wood-fire grills, blue corn antojitos, and fresh fish in squid ink batter, all served open-air on a stone patio strung with lights. This is not the resort strip, it sits down a dirt road in El Tezal, and that distance from the hotel corridor is exactly the point. Chef Alexandre Vachon leads the kitchen at one of Cabo's most credible casual tables.
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El Farallon occupies a dramatic clifftop position in El Pedregal, Cabo San Lucas, where the Sea of Cortez functions as both backdrop and pantry. Recognised in the La Liste Top Restaurants 2026 ranking with 75 points, it sits in the upper tier of Cabo's premium dining circuit alongside Cocina de Autor, Comal, and Manta. The setting alone separates it from the town's marina-facing competition.
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Los Tres Gallos brings the logic of Mexican street food, tacos, tostadas, regional technique, into a sit-down setting in downtown Cabo San Lucas, where it has held a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. At a mid-range price point unusual for Michelin-recognized dining in Los Cabos, it occupies a distinct position in a resort town dominated by high-spend hotel restaurants.
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Al Pairo at Solaz holds a 2025 Michelin Plate, placing it among the small tier of formally recognised Mexican restaurants operating along the Los Cabos corridor. Set inside the Solaz Luxury Collection Resort at Km 18.5 on the Corredor Turístico, it applies serious culinary craft to regional Mexican ingredients at the $$$$ price point.
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Asi y Asado sits along Carretera Transpeninsular in El Tezal, placing it within Cabo San Lucas's mid-corridor dining belt rather than the marina strip. The name signals the kitchen's central preoccupation: fire and smoke. Within a region increasingly defined by resort-driven tasting menus, it occupies a more direct, grill-forward register that reads as a deliberate counter-position to Cabo's grander fine-dining circuit.
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Bar Esquina sits on Av. del Pescador in El Medano Ejidal, Cabo San Lucas, in one of the strip's most trafficked beach-adjacent corridors. The bar format places it among Cabo's more casual social anchors, where the emphasis is on drinks and the scene rather than destination dining. Visitors looking for a laid-back entry point to the Cabo waterfront tend to land here first.
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A Centro address in Cabo San Lucas with serious wine credentials, Invita Bistro earned a White Star listing on Star Wine List in August 2025, placing it among a small cohort of Baja California Sur restaurants where the bottle program carries as much weight as the kitchen. The setting is walkable from Cabo's harbour, and the bistro format suits those seeking something quieter than the marina circuit.
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LaFrida Restaurant occupies a dramatic perch inside Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach, where Pacific-facing dining has long defined the upper tier of Cabo San Lucas hospitality. Set within one of Los Cabos' most architecturally committed resort properties, it positions itself in the same conversation as Cocina de Autor and El Farallon, restaurants where the setting does as much editorial work as the plate. For visitors mapping Mexico's serious dining circuit, it warrants a place in the itinerary.
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Recognised by Star Wine List as a White Star property in January 2022, the restaurant occupies a tier where wine program credibility and setting converge. It draws comparison with the Corridor's other serious dining rooms for sunset-hour table placement and list depth.
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Aleta occupies a prominent address on Av. del Pescador in the El Medano Ejidal corridor of Cabo San Lucas, placing it within reach of the marina energy that defines the town's dining character. The restaurant sits in a market tier where the Baja Peninsula's coastal ingredient tradition and Mexico's evolving fine-dining sensibility intersect, making it a reference point for visitors looking beyond the resort strip.
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On Cabo San Lucas's marina strip, Arts & Sushi sits at the intersection of Baja's Pacific seafood culture and Japanese technique. Plaza Bonita's ground floor puts it squarely in the tourist corridor, yet the concept draws on the same logic driving Mexico's broader raw-fish renaissance: local waters, global method. A reference point for visitors weighing sushi against the peninsula's wider dining options.
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Baja Brewing sits inside Cabo Villas Resort on El Medano, placing it steps from the beach in one of Los Cabos's most active social corridors. The brewpub format connects craft beer culture with Baja's resort dining scene, making it a natural stop for groups marking a trip milestone or unwinding after time on the water. Cross-reference with our full Cabo San Lucas dining guide for occasion-specific alternatives across price tiers.
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Barolo Cucina Italiana sits in Cabo San Lucas, where resort dining often has to reconcile imported culinary traditions with Baja’s coastal produce and holiday pacing. Its Italian framing makes the stronger case when read against the city’s seafood-first habits: pasta, wine-led dining, and a calmer resort rhythm rather than another beachfront grill.
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Barrio del Tango sits on Paseo de La Gaviota in El Médano, one of Cabo San Lucas's most active beachfront corridors. The name signals a sensibility distinct from the resort-circuit norm: something more characterful, more Argentine in spirit, set against the Pacific-facing energy of Baja's southern tip. For visitors working through Cabo's dining scene, it represents one of the neighbourhood's more distinct alternatives to the mainstream seafood-and-resort formula.
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Among Cabo San Lucas's hotel dining rooms, Beach Restaurant at Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal occupies a position shaped by its clifftop-to-shore Pacific setting within one of the peninsula's most architecturally deliberate resort enclaves.
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Bitos occupies a corner of El Medano Ejidal in Cabo San Lucas, placing it within reach of the tourist corridor while sitting at a remove from its loudest excesses.
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Campestre occupies a corner of Mariano Matamoros where Cabo San Lucas trades its marina gloss for something considerably more local. The address alone, Salvatierra between Lopez Mateos and Camino al Faro, positions it outside the resort corridor that defines most dining in the area. For visitors whose instinct is to follow the neighbourhood rather than the hotel recommendation, it merits attention.
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Without publicly listed awards or a published menu, its reputation travels largely by word of mouth, placing it in the understated tier of Cabo dining that rewards curiosity over convenience.
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Casa Valentina sits on a corner of old Cabo San Lucas, where the address, Calle 12 de Octubre at Melchor Ocampo, places it in the quieter residential grid behind the marina district. The venue operates outside the resort corridor that defines most visitor dining in Los Cabos, positioning it as a reference point for those tracing the town's pre-boom culinary identity.
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A beachfront grill on El Medano in Cabo San Lucas, Cascadas Beach Grill trades on its position along the peninsula's most active stretch of sand. The setting frames the meal as much as the kitchen does, placing it inside a recognizable Cabo dining tradition where the Pacific proximity is both backdrop and ingredient.
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Montage Los Cabos is a design-led resort in Cabo San Lucas shaped around Santa Maria Bay, with low-rise accommodations, a large spa complex, multiple pools, and direct access to a rare swimmable stretch of Sea of Cortez water. Its credibility is not only architectural: Michelin 2 Keys, La Liste Top Hotels 2026 at 98.5 points, and World's 50 Best Hotels 2025 recognition place it in the serious luxury tier for Los Cabos.
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Reached through a tunnel blasted through the cliffs of the Baja Peninsula, Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal earned Michelin 2 Keys in 2024 and 99 points from La Liste Top Hotels in 2026. The 112-room resort sits at the convergence of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez, with private plunge pools, cliff-side dining, and a spa rooted in Baja folk healing traditions.
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Ranked #1 Leading hotel in Mexico by U.S. News & World Report (2019) and awarded Michelin 2 Keys (2024), Esperanza sits on a private stretch of Punta Ballena, four miles outside Cabo San Lucas where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez. The 57-key Auberge property occupies cliffside terrain between two bluffs, offering ocean views from every room and a four-restaurant dining program anchored by locally sourced Sea of Cortez seafood.
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Sitting on one of Los Cabos' only swimmable beaches, Chileno Bay Resort & Residences belongs to the Auberge Resorts Collection and earned Michelin 2 Keys recognition in 2024 alongside a 94.5-point La Liste Top Hotels score in 2026. The 92-room property occupies a protected cove at Km. 15 of the Tourist Corridor, with rooms from 760 square feet, a Tom Fazio-designed golf course, and a service model built around quietly anticipating what guests want before they ask.
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The Cape sits at the tip of the Baja peninsula where Monuments Beach meets El Arco, a 159-room Thompson property that reads more like a design-led boutique than a resort corridor hotel. Enrique Olvera's Manta restaurant and the peninsula's only rooftop lounge give it a cultural weight most Cabo addresses lack. La Liste ranked it 91 points in its 2026 Top Hotels selection, and Hyatt points apply.
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Park Hyatt Los Cabos at Cabo del Sol opened in December 2025 on the Golden Corridor between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. With 163 ocean-view rooms and suites, 19 villas and residences, multiple dining venues, and Star Wine List recognition for 2026, it now operates within the corridor's premium resort tier.
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Bahia Hotel & Beach House occupies a direct beachfront position on El Medano, Cabo San Lucas's most active stretch of sand, with 89 rooms scaled to keep the property feeling residential rather than resort-anonymous. The address places guests within walking distance of the marina and town centre, making it one of the more logistically convenient bases in a destination where most luxury properties require a drive.
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Hacienda Encantada Resort & Residences occupies a clifftop position along the Tourist Corridor between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, drawing on hacienda architecture to place 184 rooms and residences above the Sea of Cortez. The property sits in a competitive corridor where design-led independents and global luxury brands compete for the same informed traveler, yet its colonial aesthetic sets a distinct visual register against the area's more contemporary competition.
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An adults-only, all-inclusive boutique property on the Corridor between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, Grand Velas Boutique Los Cabos keeps its count to 79 suites and a private beach. The wellness center and infinity pool face the Sea of Cortez directly, making it a credible retreat option in a corridor that increasingly favors scale over intimacy.
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Hacienda Beach Club & Residences occupies a prime position along Cabo San Lucas's Médano Beach, combining Spanish colonial architecture with direct Pacific-facing access. The property operates as both a club and residential enclave, placing it in a category distinct from the corridor's larger branded resorts. For travelers weighing Cabo's premium beach options, it represents a quieter alternative to the flag-branded competition on the corridor.
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J&J La Casa del Habano Cabo occupies a corner of Cabo San Lucas's Centro district at Francisco I Madero, operating within the internationally recognized Casa del Habano franchise network. The focus here is Cuban cigars paired with spirits, making it one of the few dedicated tobacco-and-drink destinations along the Baja peninsula. For visitors seeking a slower, more deliberate evening away from the marina's louder venues, it fills a specific gap.
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