Here’s What Happened At The 3rd Annual Taste Of Mexico Festival in Tulum

Tulum is one of Mexico’s hippest destinations, especially for the yoga/bohemian set and Instagram/influencer models and their groupies. It’s also an appealing retirement destination for American expats; outside the tourist-crazed beach zone, cost of living eases into the manageable realm. Curiously, those communities didn’t collide throughout the week. Though the festival held events in several of Tulum’s Instagram-friendliest hotels, starting with the brutalist/concrete blocks of Casa Malca, a former Pablo Escobar property, to the Hip Hotel, site of heaving beachfront crowds devouring tacos by day, the patrons of the festival were largely well-behaved expat retirees who had never heard of Friday nights at Gitano’s. This information proves relevant only if you’re hoping your dinner crew will carry on until 7 AM at Papaya Playa. Of course, you’re welcome to go after but not likely with your festival companions.

But those dinners…that’s a key – the key – reason for alighting on Tulum during Taste of Mexico week. Enjoying regional dishes reinterpreted through the lens of star chefs, beats the overpriced beach hotel joints any day. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lmowery/2019/02/14/heres-what-happened-at-the-3rd-annual-taste-of-mexico-festival-in-tulum/#161bbd75170e