Pez Gallo

What Pez Gallo is

Pez Gallo is a beachfront restaurant on Playa Bacocho, at the northwestern end of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. It sits on the terrace of the beach club reached by the Camino a Playa Bacocho in Fraccionamiento Bacocho, above the sand rather than on it, and it serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktails to anyone who walks in.

The distinction that matters here is the format. Most beachfront eating in Puerto Escondido happens in a palapa with plastic chairs and sand underfoot. Pez Gallo is a built terrace with a roof, railings and table service, run with hotel staffing, looking straight out at the ocean. That is the reason it works as a breakfast address rather than only a beer-and-ceviche stop.

Listings are inconsistent about which club it belongs to. Some file the restaurant under Club de Playa Villasol, run by Hotel Suite Villasol, and some under Club Bacocho. The restaurant’s own name is the reliable search term. Whichever gate you arrive at, the restaurant is open to the public during its posted hours and the pools are the part you pay extra for.

Who is behind it

Pez Gallo is run as the restaurant of a beach club rather than as a chef-driven project, which is why the service and the scale feel like a hotel rather than an owner-operated dining room. The kitchen describes its cooking as the food of the Pacific coast: typical dishes of the southern coast alongside plates from other parts of Mexico adapted to local fish and produce. It has been on Playa Bacocho long enough to accumulate more than two thousand Google reviews at a 4.8 average, which in a town with nearly a thousand restaurants makes it one of the steadiest names in the Bacocho district.

How the menu works

The day is split. Breakfast runs 08:00 to 12:00 and is the reason most visitors come. It is a long card rather than a short one, and it divides into three parts.

• Mexican classics: the standard coastal breakfast repertoire, eggs and salsas and the rest.
• The light section: oatmeal, fruit with granola, sourdough avocado toast.
• The sweet and inventive end: spinach crepes, hot cakes with caramelised banana.

After midday the kitchen turns to Pacific coast cooking: ceviches including a campechano, fish tacos, octopus, whole fresh fish, seafood casseroles and a burger for anyone who has had enough seafood. There is a full cocktail list, and the club side runs a happy hour in the early afternoon. Vegetarians are catered for at breakfast more comfortably than at dinner.

What I ate

I went for the breakfast, which is what I would come back for. The menu is close to endless, and the combination that stood out was the light section against the creative one: sourdough avocado toast and oatmeal on one side, spinach crepes and hot cakes with caramelised banana on the other. Everything I ordered came in under ten US dollars a plate. The view from the terrace is the other half of the order, and at eight in the morning there is almost nobody else using it.

What it costs

Prices are in Mexican pesos and were current in the summer of 2026.

Item	Price
Most breakfast and main dishes	90 to 190 MXN, about 5 to 10 USD
Typical spend per person with a drink	200 to 300 MXN, about 11 to 17 USD
Beach club day pass, pools and loungers	Around 1,600 MXN in 2025, part returned as food credit

That makes the restaurant itself inexpensive by Puerto Escondido standards, roughly what a good cafe in La Punta charges for a breakfast plate, with a far better view. The day pass is the expensive part of the address, so decide in advance whether you want a meal or a pool day. Prices move with the season, so confirm at the table.

Do you need a reservation

For breakfast and ordinary lunches, no. Walk in. For weekends in high season, for a group of six or more, or if you want a specific table at the front rail, call +52 954 582 0061 first. The simplest solution is to arrive at opening: at 08:00 the terrace is effectively empty and the front tables are free.

Getting there

• Address: Camino a Playa Bacocho, Fraccionamiento Bacocho, Bacocho, 71983 Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.
• Neighbourhood: Bacocho, the quiet residential fraccionamiento at the northwestern end of town, well away from the Zicatela surf strip.
• From the centre and the Adoquín: about 10 minutes by taxi or mototaxi.
• From Zicatela or La Punta: 15 to 25 minutes by taxi depending on traffic on the coastal road.
• From Puerto Escondido airport (PXM): under 10 minutes. Bacocho is the closest neighbourhood to the runway, which makes this a practical first or last meal of a trip.
• Parking: available at the beach club, which is not the case at most beachfront restaurants here.

Before you go

• Do not swim at Bacocho. It looks gentler than Zicatela, but it has heavy surf and a strong undertow and is one of the beaches lifeguards warn about. Carrizalillo and Puerto Angelito are the swimming beaches.
• Go at eight. The terrace is quiet, the light is good and the heat has not arrived.
• Check the hours before a late visit. Most listings say 08:00 to 20:00 daily, but some show a 19:00 close and a shorter Wednesday.
• Stay for the turtle release. The Vive Mar camp releases hatchlings on Playa Bacocho at around 17:00, for a small donation, and it is a short walk from the tables. Arrive early, because the number of turtles is limited.
• Pair it with the other end of town. For dinner after a Bacocho morning, Almoraduz in the centre and Chicama are both a short taxi away.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the two-minute version of this terrace and the breakfast card. For everywhere else I have eaten in town, open my map or browse the Puerto Escondido recommendations.