Restaurant of the Month

Tio Ricardo

Cuisine: Monterrey style meats   Chef: Eric Fischer (Chilean)   Menu: Northern Mexico meats  Setting: a corner of Monterrey in Merida Schedule: 12 noon – 12 mid-night   Seating: 150 with three salons for special events   Location: Calles 8 and 23 Garcia Gineres   Credit cards: Visa, MC  Price for 2 including 2 drinks: $300 pesos   Special: all you can eat meat for three hours for $235 pesos Parking:  in the street

For 28 years Tio Ricardo has been satisfying the meat lovers of Merida with its Monterrey style cuisine. Sizzling grilled goat meat, arracheras and prime cuts of beef are the menu choices at Tio Ricardo.
You can start your meal with a cold beer, guacamole or sausage or grilled scallions, then continue on with the salad bar or perhaps a Caesar salad, then savor your meat dish.

There are two specialties of the house: the cabrito or baby goat (milk fed and under 40 days old assures tender meat) and the arracheras (marinated and grilled tender skirt steak.)  Goat cuts include ribs, legs, fillet and head. Prime cuts of beef include sirloin, t-bone, New York, rib-eye, shish-ka-bob and fillet. You can also order these prime cuts by the kilo to go.

To fully enjoy your meal, order a glass of red wine that will be the perfect compliment to your meat dish. Tio Ricardo has a very nice selection of wines.

All dishes are served with a baked potato, grilled onion and a bowl of cowboy bean soup. Finish off your meal with a piece of pecan pie or a custard and a cup of expresso!

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