Guide · Puerto Escondido
Where should you have breakfast or a good coffee in Puerto Escondido? These four, from a beach terrace at Bacocho to a laptop-friendly coffee bar in La Punta, every one of them visited and filmed on my own visit.
Updated October 18, 2026 · By Jane Novikova
Three of the four are a short walk apart in La Punta. Pez Gallo is the one worth a ten-minute ride, for breakfast with the ocean in front of you.
For breakfast on the beach
A proper beachfront terrace with table service over Playa Bacocho, not a sand-floor palapa. The long breakfast menu runs 8:00 to 12:00 every day: Mexican classics, spinach crêpes, hot cakes with caramelised banana and a light section of oatmeal, fruit and sourdough avocado toast, with most dishes between 90 and 190 pesos.
Bacocho is not a swimming beach: it has heavy surf and a powerful undertow. Eat here, swim somewhere else.
For coffee and work
The coffee bar of the Notto Zicatela hotel, run by the Guiño Café team from Playa Zicatela and open to anyone walking in from the street. Specialty coffee, air conditioning, fast wifi and laptops welcome, under 300 pesos a person.
No booking and no time limit posted. Come in the heat of the day, when the air conditioning matters most.
For bread and a quick breakfast
A small owner-run bakery on a sand street in La Punta, baking sourdough on site and making its own almond milk. Pastries, sweet and savoury toasts, chilaquiles and oatmeal, with most items under 100 pesos.
Open Monday to Saturday 7:30 to 15:00, closed Sundays. Take a loaf away for the beach.
For breakfast at a design hotel
The terrace restaurant of Casa TO, a concrete-temple hotel whose pool was inspired by a sixth-century cistern in Istanbul. Breakfast is à la carte every day, the matcha is excellent, and you do not need to be a guest.
Breakfast runs daily 8:30 to 12:00. Book on OpenTable for a weekend morning.
How I picked
Mornings in Puerto Escondido decide the day, and the best of them happen before the heat. These four are the breakfasts and coffees I visited and filmed: one on the beach, one for working, one bakery and one design-hotel terrace.
Dinner has its own guide. This one is for the hours before noon.
Questions
Pez Gallo, on a beachfront terrace at Playa Bacocho, with a long menu from 8:00 to 12:00 and most dishes between 90 and 190 pesos. For a design-hotel breakfast in La Punta, Glou Glou at Casa TO from 8:30.
Notto by Guiño for specialty coffee from the Guiño team, and Monte Alpán for coffee with sourdough and its own almond milk. Glou Glou has the best matcha.
Notto by Guiño in La Punta: air conditioning, fast wifi, laptops welcome and no time limit posted. It is the one café in La Punta built for a working morning.
Yes. Glou Glou is open to the public for breakfast every day from 8:30 to 12:00, and it takes bookings on OpenTable.
No. It opens Monday to Saturday from 7:30 to 15:00. On a Sunday, Pez Gallo and Glou Glou both serve breakfast.
It is not a swimming beach. It has heavy surf and a powerful undertow, and lifeguards warn about it. Pez Gallo has pools available as a separate paid day pass.
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