Salon Familiar La Mascota Cantina

Great fun. Good drinks, friendly wait staff.

I loved my time here. We went about an hour before close on a Sunday and then we went back with others on a Friday night. Beer, drinks and food were great. Everyone working was also great and friendly. Everyone was attentive to use when we came. Great atmosphere. Wonderful time here! Visit

Small bar restaurant modeled on several of the more historic cantinas in the Centro Historico. Corner location with doors on both adjoining streets. Service started out great, but then went down hill. Although the place wss not busy, once seated, it was hard to get the servers attention. Servers spent most of their time standing in a gaggle and joking around. Once I finally got a menu, I ordered a beer, which seemed to take a long time to arrive at my table. Then server left and did not take my order. Food on the menu seemed way over priced. A domestic beer cost more than $10.00 US at the current exchange rate. That is almost double what even the best places charge. I got the distinct feeling that I was being ignored by the servers. I finished my beer, went to the cashier, paid for the beer and left, no tip. Will not return. Maybe they didn't like the way I looked or they have had bad experiences with tourists, I do not know, but I had a bad experience here.

This place is unique in that you pay for the drinks, the food is free! A very old watering hole, worth a visit!

Bring earplugs, it’s a very loud place, dress cool in the spring/summer as it’s quite hot inside. Free WiFi is a plus. Tip the food servers apart from the bar servers.

Bring earplugs. This is a fun locals-only cantina with a lot of chaos. It’s a melting pot of ages, leaning toward the 45+ crowd. I enjoyed my time listening to a charming Mexican crooner woo married women. Mezcal pours are stiff.

Pay for drinks and get your food. We liked the food and ambience with live music. Food menu changes daily or weekly. The cantina was continuously crowded while we were eating and drinking, and not with the tourists only.

This was quite an experience. The place was very overwhelming (loud music, someone singing, large TV screens showing the news). Unfortunately they didn't explain us how this worked from the start. They gave us a little day menu with 6-7 dishes to choose from and they said the food is free if you drink something. So we ordered each an expensive beer (93 pesos each) and 2 different dishes which were okay. Then we wanted to pay and they said that actually we had to get 2 beers each for the food to be free. However they did us the favour of not charging the food if we paid a tip. And so we paid a tip to one of the waiters and another one came to rudely ask for a tip again although we had already paid. Very confusing.