Mezcal Cabo San Lucas

Mezcal sits on the Carretera Transpeninsular, a fifteen-minute walk from Santa Maria Beach. The restaurant offers contemporary Mexican seafood in a room that runs smart and elegant.

You choose Mezcal for the space between tables, which is far wider than the crowded dining rooms lining the main tourist strips in Cabo. While nearby resorts rely on their proximity to Chileno Beach to draw a crowd, the experience here hinges on the quiet of the architecture. It is dressier than the beach clubs down the road, making it the right stop when you want to avoid the sand-in-your-shoes culture that defines much of the local dining scene.