Holbox owner Gilberto Cetina and his team of more than 75 employees continue to make South Central and mariscos lovers extremely proud by winning yet another prestigious recognition this week: Ranking #42 on North America’s 50 Best Restaurants.
This recognition is as significant as when the nearly nine-year-old, counter-service-only, booze-free mariscos restaurant became the first dedicated Mexican marisquería to win a Michelin star in a South Central food court last year.
However, this is arguably a bigger win because “50 Best” lists are usually reserved for fine dining restaurants, where multi-course menus efficiently run a couple of hundred dollars per person, as opposed to Cetina’s tostadas and tacos, made with heirloom corn and sustainable, line-caught local fish, which each cost less than $20.
"Holbox achieves so much more than I thought it ever would,” Cetina tells L.A. TACO.