Xaltemba Celebrates 5th Year Anniversary
Xaltemba Restaruant and Galleria are celebrating their 5th year anniversary on the Riviera Nayarit in La Penita Mexico. Xaltemba Restaurant & Galeria, founded in 2007 by former Telemundo (Los Angeles
and San Francisco Bay Area)
TV executive, Eddie Dominguez, and internationally acclaimed artist, Roberto Gil de Montes. As you can see in this before picture on the left, and the now picture of the restaurant to the right how much work and creating went into the Xaltemba Restaurant. They are celebrating its 5th Anniversary by featuring a special Con Sabor a Mar (With A Taste of the Sea) menu created by guest celebrity chef, Betty Vazquez, of Restaurant El Delfín at Hotel Garza Canela in San Blas, Nayarit. Chef Betty’s trademark menu can be enjoyed at Xaltemba on Monday, February 27 and Tuesday, February 28. The specials will be featured as part of the menu during the month of March.
Xaltemba Restaurant is open 7 days a week, Monday-Sunday from 5-10pm. They are also open for breakfast and lunch on Thursdays, as it is the La Penita’s tianguis day.
Chef Betty Creates Culinary Delights
Chef Betty, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu Paris culinary arts school in France, has 25 years experience in the forever-evolving 
international cuisine. She was instrumental in the 18th Puerto Vallarta International Gourmet Festival and is a passionate promoter of Riviera Nayarit and the fusion of traditional Mexican cuisine with her trademark “Sabor a Mar.” Over the last few years, Chef Betty has promoted Mexican cuisine as guest chef and instructor in New York, Madrid, and The Culinary Institute of America in Napa, California as well as has been a presenter at various culinary expos throughout Mexico. The culinary premise of Restaurant El Delfín is a gastronomy full of flavor, style and technique, always imaginatively reinvented with balance and simplicity.
Chef Betty’s prix fixe – or fixed price – menu includes selections from ceviche with oregano and chile serrano to seafood soup with coconut milk to shrimp with chile chipotle and bananas to chicken stuffed with goat cheese and desserts including homemade mango and coconut ice cream and guayaba cheese cake. How can one resist these delicious creations?
Xaltemba Restaurant and Galleria
Xaltemba Restaurant & Galeria is open 7 days a week for dinner (from 5-10pm) and for breakfast and lunch on Thursday, the weekly tianguis or market day in La Penita when people come from 
all over the region come to buy local and international crafts, homemade jewelry, clothing, and much, much more. Xaltemba is just steps from the town’s main plaza where the tianguis takes place.
Xaltemba
means the place of sand by the edge of the ocean (which comes from the indigenous language, Nahuatl; Xalli = Sand. Tem = Edge of the Ocean. Pa = Place). In addition to being a restaurant and a gallery (upstairs and directly across the street from the restaurant), Xaltemba acts as a gathering place for both the local and international community offering talks, workshops and readings, and the gallery has numerous exhibits and activities throughout the year. The restaurant is tastefully designed and decorated, comfortable and welcoming, with an upscale look but not upscale prices.
Xaltemba and the La Penita Community
The original concept of Xaltemba is arte, comida y copas (art, food, and drinks): a place where one can view art, music, performance, (arte), have a good meal (comida), while enjoying the company of friends and family (copas). The menu is an international one with Chef Kester, who has worked in the Mediterranean, England and Germany, at the helm.
Xaltemba’s creators and owners, Eddie and Roberto, have been very involved in the local community since they moved here permanently 6 years ago from California after having vacationed here for over 25 years.
Both are well-respected community members and leaders and are extremely active in the community
service organization, Los Amigos de La Penita (aka Los Amigos), and Eddie is Past President of the Rotary Club of Jaltemba Bay La Peñita. Xaltemba just participated in La Penita’s fundraising Mujeres a Mujeres’ Fashion Show by preparing and serving food to over 400 women, event volunteers, and attendees to rave reviews. The fundraising list is truly endless as these two people seem to have an endless supply of energy, love and light for this community.
For more information or to make reservations, visit Xaltemba Restaurant & Galeria at Salina Cruz #4, La Peñita de Jaltemba, Nayarit, one block from the beach and adjacent to the main plaza, or at www.xaltemba.com
Come to La Penita on the beautiful Riviera Nayarit for your Mexico vacation and enjoy fine dining and amazing art at the Xaltemba Restaurant and Galleria.
and visit for a La Penita Mexico vacation. The La Penita Tianguis (another word for market) is on Thursdays, and although many vendors have left for the summer, there are still many vendors so come and buy your groceries and have fun shopping for clothes and other fun items as the market happens all year long, every Thursday here in La Penita. Get here early as it shuts down around 1:00.
owned and operated and Lucy and Haitham Dleusi create a great space and good food! If you are feeling more like something simple, there
is a great place down on the beach that serves up a delicious hamburger and fries called Las Brisas, and Tikki will be happy to serve you!
One of my favorite things about Mexico is the bread, or pan as it is called locally. Every town I visit has its own panaderia, or bakery, and no two are alike. One advantage of living in a larger town like La Peñita de Jaltemba, is that in addition to the local bakeries I can shop at any day, all the would be bakers come out and sell their goods at the markets, or tianguis.
