BATHROOMS
Best bathroom to liberate sea turtles: Tacos La Cabaña
The cleanest bathroom: Tacos La Cabaña
The most luxurious bathroom: Tacos La Cabaña
Riskiest bathroom to take your kids: the subterranean bathrooms
Most improved bathroom award: Tacos La Cabaña
Most interesting bathroom line: Bar 8
Most full service bathroom: must we say it again?
Most adventurous bathroom: El Incendio
Best bathroom to overhear women’s conversation: Capitolio
Best outdoor bathroom: they alleys next to the church of San Roque

DINING
Best steakhouse: the grill at México Lindo y Sabroso
Best salads: Ciao Bella
Best BBQ: Bar 8 (only on Sundays)
Best seafood: el Pulpo Loco
Best dessert: La créme brulée in the Hacienda de Marfil (Chez Nicole)
Best Italian: Ciao Bella
Best contemporary Mexican cuisine: El Jardín de los Milagros
Best authentic Mexican cuisine: México Lindo y Sabroso
Best (high-end) breakfast: Las Acacias
Best (low-budget) breakfast: The gorditas from Baratillo with la Güera and the ones on San Roque
Best comida corrida: Antigua near Embajadoras
Best foreign buffet: el Midi
Most unusual comida corrida: Yamuna, near the Clave Azul on San Fernando
Best lunch at best price: Truco 7
Best emerging-market lunch: El comedor del Padre Pollo (next to the Templo de la Compañía)
Best skirt steak: Los Gauchos. And for the nocturnal wanderers, the tacos of el Güero (on Thursdays)
Best tamales: outside La Purísima bakery, in front of Jardín Reforma. And Los Purepechas, near the tollway to Guanajuato.
Best pizza: Peter’s Pizza
Best lasagna: Ciao Bella
Best torta: La Pulga
Best bagel: Bagel’s Cafetín (4 cheeses with black bread rules!)
Best hamburgers: La Esquina
Best French fries: Bar 8
Best dessert delivery: pastelería OK
Mejores guacamayas: next to the Coca-Cola distributor
Best menudo: on San Fernando with Doña Lupe
Best birria (goat meat): in Marfil
Best “doñas” (old women) food: in front of Bar Fly, from 2 - 5 p.m.
Best pozole: México Lindo y Sabroso
Best crepes: Bossanova (salty and sweet)
Best milkshake: Santo Café
Best atole: in front of Jardín Reforma outside the La Purísima bakery
Best cup of coffee: Café Tal, and if you’re by the Mercado Hidalgo, La Chipi
Best hot chocolate: Café Tal
Best coffee to go: El Conquistador
Best Capuchino: Bossanova
Best Capuchino frappé: Carcamanes
Best place to take your kids to eat and play: Campo Viejo
Best local supermarket: Comercial Mexicana (do we have any choice?)
Best traditional bakery: San Sebastián
Best breads: La Luna on Embajadoras
Best cake bakery: OK
Best restaurant micheladas: La Palapa of San Renovato, above la Presa de la Olla
Best restaurant host: La Hacienda de Marfil (Chez Nicole)
Fastest, most efficient and cordial service: Truco 7

TACOS
Best street tacos: el Güero
Best tripas (pig intestine) tacos: el Chino
Best Taco Platters: Tacos La Cabaña
Best tacos sudados (steamed): next to the Coca-Cola distributor
Best tacos of suspicious origin: Las Cúpulas

BAR LIFE
Best bar to meet people: Bar 8
Best bar to meet Norwegian females: Why Not?
Best Monday: Bar 8
Best Tuesday: Desmond’s Irish Pub
Best Wednesday: El Colorado (really cheap bottles)
Best Thursday: if you want to live on the edge, there’s Capitolio and for others we recommend you start in Bar Fly, then a stop in Bar 8, make it to Bar del Santo and finish in la Dama de las Camelias
Best Friday: party at your house!
Best Saturday: see Thursday (perhaps switch Bar 8 for Barranka)
Best Sunday: go to Bar 8 for lunch
Best bar special: Hook up with the bartender!
Best Micheladas: we’re still looking...
Most adventurous bar snacks: La Taberna en Dos Ríos
Highest Price to Lowest Alcohol Ratio: El Grill
Lowest Price to Highest Alcohol Ratio: el Diván in La Barranka
Most attractive female bartender in town: see Bar Fly
Most attractive male bartender in town: he was abducted long ago
Best hippie rasta barman: Sergio of Bar Fly
Best bar host: Checo from El Botañero
Best Happy Hour: Bar Luna
Best Pub: Desmond’s Irish Pub
Chillest Cantina: by tradition, El Incendio, and the Foreign Club
Shadiest Lighting: el 3’s in La Barranka
Best place to pick a bar fight: El Grill and any cantina
Best place to see screeching gringa dancing on tables: Why not?
Best jukebox: Guanajuato Libre
Most available and free pool table: el Diván en La Barranka
Best kitsch collection: Bar 8
Best bar personality: Snake
Best fresas: El Grill y Capitolio

SPORTS & RECREATION
Best place to watch a soccer match: El Botañero, and if there isn’t room there, check the Foreign Club
Best place to watch any particular game: El Botañero
Best place to see two (or three) dogs fucking: Plaza de los Ángeles
Best GYM: G1
Best swimming pool: in the Prepa Oficial
Best place to take a hike: La bufa
Best soccer field: the Nieto Piña
Best basketball courts: in La Deportiva
Best place to skateboard: awwww...whataya know! poor kids, looks like there isn’t any!
Best place to get shit on by a bird: Jardín Reforma (where there’s a 30% probability you will)
Best place to host your wedding reception: El jardín de la reina in San Gabriel de Barrera
Best Day Trip: La Presa de Mata
Best place to take someone on a picnic and then have them killed: Santa Rosa
Best place to stay during Cervantino: if you’re a local, in your house. And if you’re a visitor, with an aunt.
Best adventure tourism: Santa Rosa
Best place to buy expensive hand crafts: El Conde de Valenciana
Best place to buy expensive, and at the same time cheap, hand crafts: the mummy museum
Best place for original hand crafts: El Zaguán
Best new gallery: El Artefacto (on Potrero)
Most luxurious Bed & Breakfast: “Casa Estrella” in Mellado
Best bed & breakfast: La Casa de los espíritus alegres
Best place to stay when you can’t get into your house: El Hostalito, and if it’s full, a friend’s house.
Best place to lose your kids: Mercado Hidalgo
Best Secret Society: they remain very secret...

EDUCATION
Best Spanish school: Escuela de Idiomas de la Universidad de Guanajuato
Best Drawing & Painting Classes: Casa de la Cultura
Best jewelry classes: Gene Byron
Best place to learn Spanish without having to pay for it: Bar Fly
Best free and sexual education: The University
Majors with the best extra-curricular activities: Medicine and Industrial Relations
Best “MRS” degree: Bachelors in International Tourism

DATING
Best First Date: Bossanova on San Fernando
Best place to pick up a girl: in any bar
Best place to pick up a guy: anywhere during Expresión en Corto and Cervantino
Best place to pickup a HOT chick over 50: La Dama de las Camelias
Most romantic setting: el mirador de Mellado
Best make-out point: Los Pastitos
Best place to publicly propagate your species: la Presa de la Esperanza

URBAN PLANNING
Prettiest street: Alonso
Nicest walking street: Sopeña
Best municipal program: the rehabilitation of calle Alonso
Prettiest plaza: San Fernando

MUSIC
Best Local Band: Corazón de Babel
Best popular Mexican music group: Son del Montón
Best funk group: Barro Negro
Best Blues/Rock Cover Band: La Duda Mata
Best Jazz band: Las Momias del jazz
Best place to hear live music: Zilch
Best Spanish guitarists: Nabor and company
Best DJ: Paris
Most versatile musician: Oscar Escalante

MISCELÁNEOS
Best guard dog: Quijote of the Bossanova Café
Best street dog (with owner): El Negro (belongs to Marco)
Best carwash: in the Nissan agency
Best electric organ: Restaurante Valadez
Biggest fantasy: our beach (we’ve already got the lighthouse!)
Best Place to score condoms after midnight: La Farmacia del ISSEG on Sopeña (and they’re also the cheapest!)
Best video store: Video San Francisco
Best place to find something bootleged (and we mean anything): el Mercado de Embajadoras
Most bizzare tourist attraction: the mummy museum
Best place to buy a newspaper: Jardín de la Unión
Best place to buy comics: the newspaper stand in front of the tacos del Paisa
Best door to knock at 6:45am and expect there to be a party: Las cantinas en Tepetapa
Best ‘after hours’: La Dama de las Camelias
Best place to score booze late-night: In San Javier at the foot of the stairs to the Facultad de Minas
Best place to catch a late-night cab: Plaza de la Paz
Best place to burn one: Presa de Peralillo
Best foozball: Bar Fly
Best pool hall: next to the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in front of the Hotel del Conde
Best place for domino: Bar 11
Best dentist: Dr. Coria, in Plaza de la Paz
La Mejor Presa: Presa de Mata
Best movie star: Sirilo
Most famous person in Guanajuato: el Kalimán, and second-runner-up, the Governor
Best car service: Chevrolet’s distributor
Best general mechanic: el Maestro Guerra behind Telmex
Best challenge to park your car only to find later that it has been sabotaged or vandalized: Temezcuitate’s alley near panoramic road