El Dorado is a restaurant in
Zona Romántica
Zona Romántica, also known as Emiliano Zapata or Old Town, is an LGBT-friendly colonia (neighborhood) south of Centro, Puerto Vallarta, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Features
The Malecón spans Centro and Zona Romántica. Beaches withi ...
,
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta ( or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadala ...
, in the Mexican state of
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...
.
Description
Located along
Playa de los Muertos
Playa de los Muertos (Beach of the Dead) is an archaeological site from the Mesoamerican chronology, Middle Formative period and is located on the Honduras north coast, in the Ulua River, Ulua valley,Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson 2001 B ...
, the restaurant serves Mexican cuisine and seafood. Menu options include lobster and bone marrow tacos, stone crab cakes, seared scallops, and New York Strip steak with asparagus wrapped in bacon.
History
Spouses Guillermo Wulff and Nelly Barquet opened El Dorado in 1961. The business was frequented by
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. ...
,
Eva Gardner,
Richard Burton, and
Rock Hudson.
According to Nathan Aguilera of
Fodor's, El Dorado is a "sister restaurant" to
La Palapa.
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See also
* List of Mexican restaurants
* List of restaurants in Mexico
* List of seafood restaurants
References
External links
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{{Zona Romántica
1961 establishments in Mexico
Mexican restaurants in Mexico
Restaurants established in 1961
Restaurants in Jalisco
Seafood restaurants
Zona Romántica