Costa Baja Resort Restaurants

Costa Baja Resort & Spa offers guests a variety of dining options in La Paz, including Steinbeck’s Restaurant, Mosaic Restaurant and the Pool Bar.

Steinbeck’s offers an exceptional open-air dining experience featuring an extensive range of premium imported angus beef, fresh fish and seafood, with an exclusive wine list prepared to perfectly complement each dish. Savor your meal while enjoying splendid views of Marina Costa Baja.

Mosaic is an indoor/outdoor restaurant serving a buffet breakfast and a la carte lunch.

The Pool Bar features a casual swim-up bar, freshly grilled bar food and snacks daily, along with a variety of drinks including domestic and international beers, cocktails and soda drinks.

Celebrating a special occasion? Start your special day at Mosaic, pampering you with a delicious breakfast buffet – and birthday folk don’t pay. Steinbeck’s then invites you to choose a bottle of wine for pairing with your birthday dinner celebration.

Why the restaurant is called Steinbeck’s

In March 1940 John Steinbeck sailed into the Gulf of California aboard the sardine boat Western Flyer with the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, collecting specimens along the coast. La Paz was one of their stops. The trip produced Sea of Cortez and later The Log from the Sea of Cortez, and the pearl-diving story he heard here became the novella The Pearl.

Naming the grill after him is not decoration. It is a reminder that the water in front of the restaurant is one of the most-studied and most-written-about marine environments on the continent — and that the fish on the plate came out of it.

Eating beyond the resort

Ten minutes down the road, La Paz has one of the better casual food scenes on the peninsula, and it is worth at least two evenings of your trip.

• Fish and shrimp tacos from the stands around the Malecón and the municipal market — battered, fried to order, dressed with cabbage, crema and salsa.
• Almejas chocolatas, the local chocolate clams, cooked on the half shell over coals.
• Ceviche and aguachile, the second considerably hotter than the first.
• Machaca de pescado, dried and shredded fish, usually at breakfast with eggs.
• Burritos percherón, the outsized Sonoran flour burrito that turns up on beach club menus around the bay.
• Damiana liqueur, distilled from the local herb, poured after dinner or built into a Baja margarita.

Practical notes

• Mosaic opens every day of the year for breakfast buffet and a la carte lunch.
• Steinbeck’s is the dinner room and takes reservations — ask at the desk, or call +52 (612) 123 6000.
• The Pool Bar runs through the day at the edge of the main pool.
• Birthday guests eat free at the Mosaic breakfast buffet.