The Best Places in Cabo San Lucas & El Tezal

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

Perched on the cliffs of Punta Ballena where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez, Esperanza is a 57-suite Auberge resort with the only private beach in Los Cabos, so the seclusion is structural, not just a vibe. Casitas have terraces and ocean views; the Cocina del Mar restaurant is carved into the bluff. The palapa spa goes deep on traditional medicine wheel treatments. Forbes Five Star and two Michelin Keys. Celebrities come, and the Frette linens apparently come standard.

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2. Michelin Guide 2 Keys

You reach this Forbes Five Star, Michelin two-key resort by passing through a tunnel blasted through Pedregal Mountain, which sets the tone neatly. Every room faces the Pacific, and a personal assistant is assigned before you arrive, ready to arrange dolphin swims, a curandera session at the spa, or a private breakfast beside your plunge pool. This is emphatically not spring-break Cabo; it's the version where someone else handles all of it.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Keys
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

The sail-shaped towers aren't just a design flex; "vela" means sail in Spanish, and this family-owned company leans into it hard. Grand Velas is a Forbes Five Star all-inclusive resort on the Sea of Cortez, which means the open bar and included dining come wrapped in architecture that looks like it's about to catch a breeze and head for the horizon. The kind of place where the biggest decision is which pool.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

Down a dirt road off the hotel strip, this open-air Mexican restaurant earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand with antojitos and wood-fired grilled meats served on a stone patio strung with lights. The name refers to the flat stone used for grinding maize, which tells you where the kitchen's head is at. Blue corn tortillas and squid ink batter show the cooks aren't just playing it safe. Casual, affordable, and easy to miss if you're not looking.

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
3. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The flan here is famously oversized, which tells you something about the general philosophy. Los Tres Gallos is a big, cheerful Mexican restaurant anchoring a corner of downtown Cabo, built around a grand brick courtyard strung with color, paver stone underfoot, pink and red stucco brightening the walls. The menu runs traditional, think enchiladas, mole, chile rellenos, and a deeply roasted pozole that arrives with enough toppings to keep you busy.

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The swim-up bar at Blue Marlin Ibiza says everything: ME Cabo is an adults-only beach resort where the pool party is the amenity, not an afterthought. Spain's Meliá group planted its nightlife-forward ME brand right on Playa El Médano, Cabo's only swimmable beach, and the rooms, each with a balcony, lean into the hedonist brief with counted thread counts and sea views to sleep off the night before.

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2. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

The showstopping fountain in the center of the room tells you everything: Toro is a pan-Latin American restaurant that wants to be remembered. Large furniture, a buzzy atmosphere, and a menu that swings from Oaxacan cheese-smothered enchiladas to grilled cauliflower in pomegranate and red wine reduction. It's the kind of place where both the carnivores and the vegetarians leave satisfied, which is harder to pull off than the fountain makes it look.

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

1. AAA Four Diamonds

Perched on a private strip of Medano Beach with Land's End framing the view straight ahead, this resort is really a collection of oversized residences, one to four bedrooms, dressed in handcrafted metalwork and natural stone. Some units come with private pools. The scale is more borrowed vacation home than hotel, which means the general chaos of Cabo is close enough for an evening but easy enough to sleep through.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Approved

1. AAA Approved

1. AAA Approved

Linoleum floors, bare yellow walls, and a trim menu that hasn't tried to impress anyone in years. This no-frills taco counter serves fish, fried or grilled, on homemade tortillas, with a toppings bar of coleslaw, pico de gallo, guacamole, and salsas so you can build as you see fit. Quesadillas are there if you wander off-script. Cheap, fast, and genuinely close to the water it's sourcing from.

1. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

1. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

1. Eater The 15 Best Restaurants in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico