Working at various local restaurants and bars she found a good business fit when she started to manage Bourbon Street, a local live music venue, located right in the heart of Playa del Carmen. She eventually became a partner and helped it grow into a successful and popular spot and was an owner/operator there for 6 years. She then decided o move onto her next business venture; La Carmela.

Opened in December of 2007; La Carmela is a fun and cozy home-style restaurant with fresh food at amazingly affordable prices. Carmen offers a set daily menu (Comida Corrida) as well as other homemade specialties. Try the perfectly cooked beef milanesa, which comes with salad and rice ($60.00 Pesos), the Cuban Torta, which is certainly enough to share with two people ($40.00 pesos), or her fresh cream of vegetable soup that comes steaming hot to the table. While she waits on her liquor license to come through next month enjoy the papaya-orange juice, or the agua de Jamaica, and you will certainly quench your thirst. With affordable prices, fresh meats and produce, and Carmen buzzing around in the kitchen, La Carmela is certainly a place worth trying.

La Carmela is located on 4^th Street between 25^th and 30^th Avenues (formerly known as Bloody Chicas) and they are open daily starting with breakfast at 7:00 AM until 6:00 PM. For more information or to ask what is on the daily menu call: 984-803-4881

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