Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta restaurants for takeout: nine places, 21 nights, receipt prices in pesos
We spent 21 nights at Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta, 6 to 27 July 2026, and hardly left the grounds. Most afternoons we walked to one of the restaurants inside the resort, ordered to go, carried it back, microwaved what we wanted and opened a beer.
Every order below went back to our room and onto the room bill, so this is about the food, not the dining rooms. Prices are from our receipts, in Mexican pesos. The supermarket has its own post, and so does the night we ate out, at Cirque du Soleil LUDÕ.
The nine, at a glance
| Place | Where, as we found it | Receipts | Total we paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Cantina | past the golf-course pond and the Santuario | 3 | 2,345 |
| Chiringuito | poolside, close to La Plaza | 3 | 4,385 |
| Balche | next to the main pool | 2 | 1,865 |
| Sweet Paris | La Plaza, ground floor | 7 | 1,605 |
| Taco Break | La Plaza, third floor | 2 | 665 |
| Waves N’ Tacos | a food truck at Salum, by the beach | 1 | 300 |
| Ola Mulata | on the beach, the farthest from our room | 1 | 1,045 |
| Green Table | poolside | 1 | 985 |
| The pizzeria | delivered through the resort app | 2 | 630 |
La Cantina
Old-style cantina food, past a palm-lined boardwalk and the Santuario show venue. On our third visit my wife said, “It’s further than you think.”
On 9 July: mushroom quesadillas 250, chicken nachos 365, a tetela filled with octopus 350. The quesadilla was the one, creamy and almost buttery, and still good reheated the next day. The nachos came on round chips instead of the triangles we saw elsewhere. The tetela was bland; my wife had pictured a taco and got something closer to an enchilada.
On 25 July we went back for the Chicharrón de Rib Eye, 475, a dish that had impressed us on an earlier trip: fried cubes of ribeye, cubed white cheese and guacamole, with five corn tortillas. The flavor was hard to fault. The meat did not stretch to five tortillas, so we cut the cubes smaller, four pieces each.
On the last night, 26 July, we ordered at the bar in halting Spanish and the bartender smiled the friendly kind of smile. Cactus salad (Ensalada Atlixco de Nopales) 190, three Tacos Baja de Camarón 380, and La Cazuela de Cochinita Pibil with three corn tortillas 335. Total 905.
The shrimp tacos tasted like spicy ebi-mayo, the Japanese shrimp-and-mayonnaise dish. We put the pork on its tortillas with Oaxaca cheese from the supermarket and microwaved it. Those tortillas were bigger than the ones before and held together, and we both liked them enough to save one for the very end.
Early in the stay it was a busy World Cup viewing venue and we mostly stayed away; one of us wondered if we should have gone more often. The house specialty, fried grasshoppers, we did not get round to ordering this stay.
Chiringuito
The Spanish place; the resort’s page calls it an outdoor spot by the pool. 12 July was a birthday, so we spent: Rib Eye a las Brasas 1,060, Arroz Negro con Pulpo y Gambas (black rice with octopus and prawns) 1,080, and a warm mushroom-and-prawn salad 280. Total 2,420, and we waited 50 minutes for it. The ribeye had a charcoal taste that made us both think of yakiton, Japanese grilled pork skewers.
On 19 July: two chicken Pintxos Moruños skewers, 310, and the same salad, 280. Neither was what we expected. The chicken was lean and faintly curried, and the salad had a sweeter dressing, less garlic and no bread; we both said the first salad was better.
On 23 July: Caesar salad with jamón serrano 420 and Paella Mar y Tierra 955. The big-grained rice soaked in stock was the good part. The lobster on top was soft, the half one of us ate was gritty, and one of us caught a faint smell of ammonia. We both said we would rather have no lobster and twice the rice. This paella used to be around 500 pesos; in the last few years it has gone to around 1,000.
Balche
Next to the main pool.
On 10 July: a large Pizza Extravaganza, heaped with meat, 385, and buffalo wings 335. The receipt showed 720 pesos and a US dollar reference of $45.00. The pizza froze well and lasted several days. The wings were small, and my wife ranked them the best buffalo wings of the trip so far.
On 15 July: chicken nachos 345, three shrimp gobernador tacos 390 and a cheeseburger 410. The burger had a thick, meaty patty with a toasty flavor, and my wife’s verdict was: “I like burgers after all. Every burger here is good.” The menu gave these nachos about twice the grams other restaurants listed, but the box did not seem bigger than La Cantina’s.
Sweet Paris
A crêperie from Houston on the ground floor of La Plaza, and our most frequent restaurant stop: seven receipts. On 8 July we ordered chicken Alfredo from the savory side of the menu expecting a chicken dish, and it came as a crepe, 220.
The Cobb salad, 185, is why we kept going back: 11, 14, 16, 21 and 25 July. Vegetables are expensive at the resort and we had hardly eaten any salad; after the first one it became our fallback. On 24 July we tried the goat cheese salad with shrimp, 240, heavy on nuts, and we both gave the win to the Cobb.
Taco Break
Third floor of La Plaza, in Mercado México. The counter is outdoors, and on a humid 24 July we sweated while we waited. We mostly ate in on earlier trips; this stay was our first time taking it away.
On the 14 July menu, tacos were 50 to 70 each and alambres 185 to 240, the meat ones cooked with bacon, mushrooms, peppers and onion, with cheese 40 more. We had the Alambre de Pastor con Queso, 250, and Queso Fundido con Champiñones, 175. The pastor alambre, we agreed, tasted like a good Napolitan, Japan’s ketchup spaghetti. The queso fundido went hard in the box and melted again in a minute on a corn tortilla. “This is all we need,” said my wife.
On 24 July it was Alambre con Asada, 240, without cheese: my wife’s plan was to add the 83-peso Oaxaca cheese we had bought downstairs, as much as we liked.
Waves N’ Tacos at Salum
Salum, per Vidanta’s site, is twelve food trucks and stands by the beach, a fair walk from our room. On 13 July we went partly for draft IPA at HUAMA CERVECERÍA, the beer trailer there. As on every earlier visit, no draft, only bottles at 140 pesos. My wife pointed out that you can drink IPA in Japan these days, and we left it.
Two shrimp tacos (Olvidado de Camarón) 190 and a carne asada quesadilla 110; the receipt said SALUM, 300 pesos. The tacos were just shrimp and onion on a well-toasted corn tortilla, and good. The red salsa was very hot.
Ola Mulata
The restaurant farthest from our room, on the beach, known for seafood. On 20 July we made it the point of a walk.
The Caesar had seven large shrimp. The Costra de Marisco Camarón is shrimp under a cheese crust, with four corn tortillas, a spicy salsa and lime; the cheese had set hard by the time we were home, and a quarter on a tortilla, microwaved for a minute, melted with a few browned edges and was very good. The Burrito con Pulpo had no rice, just cheese, guacamole, greens and octopus, and my wife said that after all our visits she might never have ordered it before. Pescado Zarandeado, the grilled snapper on the official page, we still have not ordered.
Green Table
Poolside, and we had bought its nachos on an earlier trip. On 22 July: Guacamole Chunky 255, Boneless de Pechuga de Pollo with thin fries 335, and Nachos con Arrachera 395, total 985.
These nachos were gentle and creamy, not very salty. The guacamole came topped with seeds and cauliflower, and we never worked out how you are meant to eat the cauliflower. The chicken was soft, and my wife named the flavor first: barbecue.
The pizza that comes to the door
Through the resort app, a large Pizza Giovanni from the kitchen the receipt calls PIZZERIA: 315 pesos, which the receipt splits into 278.93 and a 15% service charge line. On 7 July it arrived about 30 minutes after we ordered. We froze it in its box, and three minutes in the microwave brought slices back. Side by side with Balche’s pizza on 13 July, we agreed the Giovanni was better. For us it was the value order: other single dishes cost 300 to 400 pesos and did not fill us up.
What we were happiest with, and what let us down
Happiest: La Cantina’s mushroom quesadilla and cochinita pibil, the Cobb salad at Sweet Paris, both Taco Break orders, Ola Mulata’s costra and burrito, and the Giovanni pizza. Chiringuito’s paella rice is good; the price and the lobster are the problem.
Let down by: La Cantina’s octopus tetela, Chiringuito’s pintxos morunos, and that second warm salad.
Practical bits
- Paying: everything went on the room bill. Our takeout receipts said the tip was not included. The Sweet Paris menu we saw on 8 July 2026 said no cash.
- Dollars: some receipts print a US dollar figure beside the pesos, like $45.00 under Balche’s 720 on 10 July 2026.
- Ordering: the resort app handles the pizzeria, room service and supermarket delivery, and shows restaurant menus.
- Waits: our Chiringuito paella order took 50 minutes on 12 July 2026. Order first, then run errands.
- English: the Taco Break and Sweet Paris menus had Spanish and English. Spoken English we didn’t check.
- Hours: the Sweet Paris menu footer read 7:00 am to 10:45 pm on 8 July 2026, and Green Table’s official page gave 7:00 to 17:30 in July 2026. Vidanta’s Salum page gave Waves N’ Tacos 17:00 to 22:45 when checked in August 2026, yet our receipt is stamped 15:29. The rest we didn’t check.
- Walking: we didn’t time the walks. Ola Mulata is the farthest from our room, La Cantina further than it feels.
- Reheating: our room had a microwave, and a fridge big enough to freeze a pizza in its box.
On the last night, the cochinita pibil went last, because we both wanted to finish on that tortilla.
Facts checked 2026-09-14. Prices, hours and menus are what we saw on our visit; they change. Nothing here was sponsored or comped.
