Since 2013, La Panga del Impostor has been providing excellent seafood in a laid-back nautical-themed venue. With a branch near Chapultepec Avenue and another in the swanky neighborhood of Providencia, the restaurant offers exciting dishes such as tuna in black habanero sauce and fried pork belly with octopus. The drinks menu at La Panga del Impostor is as impressive as the food, so take your pick from the extensive selection of local craft beers.

The most important thing for making birria is the clay oven,” says Ivan Ibarra, the head chef at La Panga del Impostor, a hip outdoor seafood restaurant in the city’s Colonia Americana neighborhood. “First you bake the meat before stewing it in the pot with all of the spices. This is how we do it in my hometown of Cocula, where the dish was invented.

A hot day in Guadalajara calls for a complete meal at La Panga's urban patio mariscos oasis. The seafood-driven casual restaurant pioneered some cutting edge surf and turf applications like a guisado made from tender octopus and pressed chicharrón, raw tuna tostadas topped with air-dried beef floss (machaca), and deliciously briny clam birria with shrimp. They even have a seafood version of Guanajato's famous "Guacamaya" chicharrón torta, except at La Panga they add a couple of spoonfuls of fresh tuna next to that crispy pork chicharrón.

More recently opened is La Panga del Impostor, an uber-hip seafood joint with a young and more single crowd than Ponte, in one of the old mid-century homes in Colonia Americana. The absolute best meal I have had in Guadalajara was Tikuun Comedor Local, newer to the Guadalajara dining scene and serving some of the city’s most inventive dishes – like scallops with peppermint, chile de arbol, pea microgreens, and glasswort – in a mellow, casual setting.

La Panga del Impostor: A great little hip seafood place, really low-key and cool, with most of the seating outdoors on the patio. This is the place to come if you’re hungover, but the menu will make you happy even on a regular day. Try the clam birria for a punch in the tastebuds, but also make sure to sample at least one of the firey aguachiles and maybe the Chinese Tuna tostada with soy sauce, chamoy, sesame seeds, and wasabi peas.

The patio at La Panga might be directly overlooking an urban street not far from Casa Fayette, but it fully delivers on beachside seafood shack vibes. They open at 1 pm, but like most lunch spots, it’s not really popping until after 3 pm. The moment we sat down, my husband was pleased with their comprehensive list of local beers, and the fact that they were playing the entire Ramones album Rocket to Russia from start to finish.

En medio de una simpática terraza en la colonia americana, el chef Antonio de Livier ofrece un menú conformado principalmente por ceviches, cocteles, aguachiles y tacos, si lo visitan de jueves a domingo no dejen pasar las especialidades al asador. Descubre cómo llegar del aeropuerto de Guadalajara al Centro con facilidad. ¡Encuentra opciones de transporte conveniente para tu viaje!

I am going to go out on a limb and say that Guadalajara has some of the best seafood restaurants in Mexico. I love Mexico City and all but Guadalajara edges out the capital in my opinion. This is where the cool kids and the foodies in the know like to hang out on the weekends La Panga del Impostor is one part nostalgic trip to a sleepy fishing village and one part chef-driven menu.

Después de unos buenos aguachiles, ¿qué tal un heladito para cerrar con broche de oro?. En La Panga del Impostor, uno de los restaurantes de mariscos obligados de la colonia Americana, te tienen cubierto. Sespués de disfrutar las creaciones del chef Antonio de Livier, es turno de un cono de Lucky Charms, de lavanda, de cacahuates garapiñados o de chocolate Abuelita.

Este lugar en sin duda famoso por sus tostadas, las más pedidas son la tostada de camarones a la diabla, y la de atún con habanero negro. Pero sin duda, sus aguachiles, tacos y cocteles no se quedan atrás. Ubicación: C. Miguel Lerdo de Tejada 2189, Col Americana, Americana, 44160 Guadalajara, Jal.

Antonio de Livier es la mente maestra de este lugar en el que plasma su identidad culinaria: los platos son vastos, monchosos y llenos de sabor. Desde el caldito de camarón hasta los postres, pide de todo para compartir. Dirección: Miguel Lerdo de Tejada 2189, Americana

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