February 11, 2026 Breakfast - Mushroom, steak and cheese omelette ,Lunch - Chicken Caesar Salad. Dinner - D’ Cortes in PV

February 11, 2026 Breakfast - Mushroom, steak and cheese omelette ,Lunch - Chicken Caesar Salad. Dinner - D’ Cortes in PV

I woke up at 3:15 and drank a glass of lemon water and watched the  

 Olympics and the early morning  business shows  until 4:00 then I dressed and ate breakfast of leftover steak and mushrooms omelet and one half of a bagel with cream cheese.

We heft or the airport at 5:00 and took a 6:15 flight to Phoenix where we shared two warm empanadas with a coffee for Suzette’s breakfast and bought a chicken Caesar salad for our lunch on the flight to Puerto Vallarta.

We arrived in PV at 1:15 and it took 1 1/2 hours to clear immigration and customs because there were so many people.

We picked up our rental car and drove to our hotel, Posada de Roger in downtown PV. It is a large four story posada that has been converted into a hotel without food service included but with a roof top communal kitchen.

We 

We rested until 6:00 and then obtained a small bag of ice and drank the complementary bottle of Don Simon Spanish Rose with ice in the small roof garden next to the kitchen and watched the sun set through the buildings and trees. Posada Roger is three blocks from the beach.

Here are several pictures of the hotel and our room. Suzette was fascinated by the woven plastic covering the patio.

We then drove up the hill to the small restaurant in a densely populated neighborhood. It was a charming small restaurant serving gourmet food at reasonably steep prices.

We shared an appetizer of about a dozen mussels in a thick Mornay sauce made with heavy cream and Parmesan cheese.

Suzette ordered Mediterranean Octopus which was boiled octopus served with butter sauce with a puddle of potato cream and vegetables.

I encountered the heavy cream sauce again when I received my entree of Pasta with shrimp and mussels in a cream sauce. We liked all three dishes that each exceeded the average quality due to their sauces. We drank a Mexican Sauvignon Blanc that was 1200 pesos for the bottle, which was more than the entire food amount. The check was $150.00. My sense is that the days of cheap prices in Mexico are gone with the arrival of the flood of tourists.

After dinner we drove back to the Posada and walked a few blocks on our street that is one of the main shopping streets in downtown PV.

We went to bed by 10:30.

Bon Appetit