El Globo Restaurant - San Juan Cosalá

Right on the Carretera in San Juan Cosala it's pretty busy, but. the food is just good.... Dirt floor but for a good Mexican breakfast it is AOK!

Love El Globo for breakfast! The omelettes and other breakfast specialties come all with beans and chillaqueles (sp., and these incredibly fresh made corn tortillas, made in special oven on site are always fabulous. Very recommended

This is the best flattened chicken breast I've ever had. Eat here every day until I have to return home. Prices are very reasonable. Lunch with a Pacifico over $5USD. Watch good people. I'm staying at the Racket Club, so it's comfortable. From my point of view, breakfast is usually very crowded and is probably El Globo's call card meal. I saw tables from people who order soups and cerviche. Menu has a nice selection and I would bet that everything on the menu they do well. When Gringa, I warned people to eat salads in Mexico. This could have been a good warning years ago, but even this very local and inconceivable eating place has brought the salads down so that the digestive system should be easy to process. Open for breakfast and lunch at about 5:30. El Globo is not a fast food, so ready to wait for your order.

Small roadside place, just west of the entrance to Racquet Club, on the mountain side of the street. Watch for the two Coca Cola red tarps over tables, right next to the street. There is also a sandwich board sign next to the street. If eating next to traffic bothers you, ask about being seated inside (we 've never been inside). Nice view of the lake between other buildings across the road. Breakfast will fill you up, especially since they keep bringing fresh tortillas, hot off the comal. Sit near the comal so you can watch them prep and cook... it 's an old wheelbarrow with makeshift concrete fire area (wood fired), and a metal comal on top for cooking the tortillas. Amazing to watch the cook take pieces of masa to form and cook the tortillas on this rustic cooktop. In addition to the regular tortillas, they make a thicker version with a lip all around, which they fill with various toppings called pelliscadas. Depending on how hungry you are, 2 3 pelliscadas can be a meal (try a variety of toppings... The potato and chorizo is wonderful). Other food items are well done and plentiful. Beans are thick and stiff, rather than typically thin and runny... I liked them better, but my husband prefers them thinner. Beans and/or chillaquiles are served with a wedge of queso fresco rather than crumbled on top. We like that they serve onion and cream for the chillaquiles separately, so you can top your own if you want, or leave it off. Bacon is often smaller pieces served in a pile rather than long strips, but that varies. If you order coffee, they bring a cup of hot water and container of instant for you to make your own don 't expect a great cup of joe here. Hot chocolate is good, as is the OJ. Cups are rough, uneven and often chipped for a very rustic feel to match the comal. We haven 't tried it, but their sign says they have menudo on Sundays, I believe. If you have company in town and want to give them a real taste of old Mexico, this would be a great place to take them! Also good if you 're hungry and want to get filled up, or for a breakfast stop on your way into Guadalajara via Jocotepec. We 've been there several times and will certainly go back.

Very simple foods, but delicious and the best tortillas I have ever had and I 've lived in Mexico 18 years. Also, not a regular menu item, but their Caldo de Res beef soup is the finest I 've ever had. Tortillas are made from fresh Masa. They are thicker and golden.