{"id":6930,"date":"2015-06-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsnomnom.wordpress.com\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T23:48:28","slug":"brunch-at-excellence-riviera-cancun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/02\/brunch-at-excellence-riviera-cancun\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunch at Excellence Riviera Cancun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7090\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Excellence Riviera Cancun, Mexico\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_38351-520x520.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One restaurant we really enjoyed at <a title=\"Excellence Riviera Cancun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.excellence-resorts.com\/caribbean-and-mexico-destinations\/excellence-riviera-cancun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Excellence Riviera Cancun<\/a> was an open air, thatch roofed restaurant overlooking the main pool. It turns into The Lobster House in the evenings, but during the day, it&#8217;s the perfect spot for breakfast, brunch, or lunch.<\/p>\n<p>We ate here multiple times during our trip and never had the same thing twice. Fresh juices, cocktails, pastries, huevos rancheros, breakfast burritos, omelets&#8230; lots of good stuff here. I had some intense salad cravings on this trip, and the lunchtime salad bar was perfect for that. The lunch menu is a little less vegetarian friendly, but we were able to get meatless fajitas. 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