Five ways to eat
From cooking every meal to cooking none
Bring it with you
Most guests provision in Puerto Vallarta the night before they cross, and cook what they bring. The supermarkets there have everything. Pack perishables in a cooler or cooler bags for the hour on the water, and bring butter, oil and seasoning — the things people always forget.
Have it brought over
Chimo, the next village along, is ten minutes by boat and has two small stores. The selection is limited but real — vegetables, tortillas, ice, cold beer and some meat — and particular items are not always in stock. Fresh fish comes from the pescadería or from locals in the town rather than the stores. Anything from Chimo can come over by boat, or often be walked in by the staff the next day, and delivered to your bungalow. Running out is an inconvenience, not a crisis.
A cook in your kitchen
A local cook will come to your bungalow with all the ingredients and cook in your kitchen while you do nothing at all. Same day is usually fine, though more notice is better. Arrange it with the staff, with your host, or directly over WhatsApp.
Eat in Chimo
Two restaurants. Ten minutes by boat, or walk the mountain trail — about fifty minutes each way, steep in places, and worth doing once. If you would rather cook it yourself, the stores have some meat and the pescadería or a local will sell you fresh fish.
Have a meal delivered
A meal cooked in Chimo can come over by boat and arrive at your deck. Your dining room, their kitchen, your schedule.
Ask the staff
Forgotten the olive oil, short of a saucepan, out of matches? Ask whoever is on the property — there is often something they can lend you. It is not a shop and they are not caterers, but nobody here will let you go without a corkscrew.
