La Primavera - OAXACA DE JUÁREZ

I loved eating breakfast at Primavera when I was in Oaxaca. With its view of the Zocalo and delicious meals like a beautiful fruit plate with yogurt and granola or a spinach omelette, this was a great place to get a healthy and relaxing start to the day.

Fui por error, quería ir al restaurante de la abuela que esta justo arriba de este y al ver las mesas fuera pensé que era el otro. La comida no es mala, es apenas aceptable, pero lo peor de todo son que como estas sentado afuera los vendedores ambulantes te invaden, es imposible mantener una conversación con los tuyos, te atacan por todos lados, te quieren vender cualquier cosa. Fue insoportable.

Muy rico el chocolate con pan de yema!! Las porciones grandes y buen precio y en pleno zócalo con muy buena vista

One of my first stops in Oaxaca is Sopa Azteca at La Primavera. This is both for sentimental reasons and also the soup is damned good.

Around 3 p.m. (not the lunch or dinner rush), I walked by the outdoor seating and a waiter invited me to a table. He was the best part of the experience. I ordered cream of mushroom soap, a ham and cheese torta, and a lemonade. The soap was very thin - almost like a milky broth - with no mushrooms evident. (I'd had a delicious mushroom soup the night before at Marques.) It was edible, so I finished it. The torta was okay, but not very tasty - like it was thrown together. I left half of it behind. The fries were fine. So nothing dreadful, but relative to Del Jardin just a few doors away, it was a step down. No place mats and something that looked like toilet paper (it didn't appear to be a napkin) wrapped around the utensils - just not a nice experience. Because it is a holiday and they were short staffed (there was a help wanted notice), I understand that the waiters were too busy. I finally gave up waiting for the check and paid the cashier myself. The view is good, but there are other restaurants with the same view. It as clearly a bad day for the overworked wait staff - maybe it was a bad day for the chef too, so I gave it a three. But I won't be stopping there again.