La Taverna dei Quattro Mori

Address: on the Carretera in San Antonio, Tlayacapan. Across from Absolute Fenix Realty.
Phone: 766-2848
Hours: 11am-11pm Monday - Sunday. 
Visa and MasterCard accepted

Directions: From Walmart, head east on the Carretera to the first stop light. La Taverna dei Quattro Mori is on the left, just past the stop light. There is parking in front of the restaurant. Drive past the light to the next entrance onto the lateral road and park there.

First Impressions

La Tavern dei Quattro Mori opened a new location in San Antonio, Tlayacapan, recently. This is  close to where we live, so we were anxious to give it a try. The owners have turned a vacant hole-in-the-wall into a surprisingly pleasant restaurant.

There is plenty of seating indoors as well as a patio area. We dined on a cool night and appreciated the ambience of a crackling fire indoors.

Even though the café was crowded,  we found a table for four and were waited on promptly.

Menu and Prices

Good Italian food is a rare find at Lake Chapala. There are a few who try, but so far we have been mostly disappointed with their efforts. However, this evening we were impressed by the meals at La Taverna.

We ordered our drinks and the waitress brought a basket of focaccia bread. One basket is on the house, but subsequent baskets are charged at $20pesos per order. The menu offered a nice selection of traditional Italian dishes, including

pizza, fettuccine,  spaghetti, gnocchi, lasagna and minestrone soup. We ordered minestrone soup, pizza, gnocchi parmesan, fettuccine alfredo, and penne pesto.

All of our dishes were very good, and we enjoyed our meals.  The pasta was cooked just right, slightly al dente, and the gnocchi was flavorful and not overcooked.

The house red wine was Chianti, so appropriate and very good. Service was perfunctory, just fine but not overly enthusiastic or helpful.


The prices are moderate, which means that  La Taverna dei Quatrro Mori will have a lot of
customers, as we witnessed on the evening we dined there.

San Antonio Tlayacapan plays host to many expats who live within walking distance, making the decision to move their location from West Ajijic, a smart one.

Our meal, including two main dishes, an extra basket of bread and four glasses of wine, came to $360 pesos, about $26 USD

Our Recommendation ***

This is a nice café and the owners made a good choice by moving to San Antonio, Tlayacapan.

The ambience is pleasant, especially at night with the fire cracking in the fireplace, and the prices are quite reasonable for tasty Italian food. Not five star, but certainly one of the best Italian restaurants lakeside.