Last evening Bliss and Jim , Cynthia and Mike , Roy and I got together for dinner at a restaurant in centro called Los Barcos. Los Barcos is not to be confused with our favorite restaurant La Barca. Can you tell by the restaurant names that Guaymas is a port city? Los Barcos means the boats (plural) and La Barca means the boat (singular). This name game can be confusing, as one evening we were to meet some people at La Barca, we waited and waited before finally ordering and eating our dinner. Unknown to us they were doing the same waiting game at Los Barcos. Pretty funny. We did finally get together with them on a different evening.
We sat around chatting and when we finally called the waiter over to order he seemed relieved. He told us that the kitchen would be closing in about 15 minutes at 6:30 PM. Early closing.
They had 3 specials: shrimp in orange sauce, fish in orange sauce and chicken in orange sauce. See a trend here? Roy decided to try the chicken special and I decided to try the shrimp special. The others ordered shrimp in a variety of ways. The orange sauce was tasty, nothing great; Roy said he really liked it; but then he likes citrus more than I do.
Dinner over we chatted for a few minutes and noticed that they were locking the doors so we decided to leave so that they could close up. It was 7 PM. When Roy and I were at El Coco Novillero the other night they also appeared to be closing up at 7 PM. This seems very strange as most of the Mexican people eat dinner at a later hour so perhaps the bulk of their business is for lunch. Los Barcos is open to the outside so does not have air conditioning; they did have a couple of big fans going though, so it was pleasant inside.
As we stood outside chatting a group of 4 backpackers arrived, they were Italian and had just gotten off the ferry from the Baja and were hungry. They spoke a little English so we were going to try and tell them where another restaurant was, this was going to be interesting as there are none close to Los Barcos without taking lots of twists and turns. They told us they were on their way to San Carlos so Bliss and Jim offered them a ride. They all piled into their car, packed like sardines. We had a good laugh as it reminded us of the clowns at the circus all piling into their little car. Off they went to San Carlos to find their hotel and some food.
Cynthia, Mike, Roy and I chatted for awhile longer before heading off to our respective homes. A nice evening.
I didn't take my camera; but both Bliss and Cynthia did so there may be some photos over on their blogs. Personally I hope not, I sure hate having my photo taken.
