Panwa Restaurants - Ship Inn Bar and Restaurant - 2/5 Stars

It's a good restaurant, but the Secret Cove is literally right next door. The Secret Cove has a more extensive menu, better service, cheaper prices and more comfortable seating. The chairs at the Ship Inn don't allow you to slide your legs under the table with any comfort, which gets annoying very fast. The service was decent, but again, Secret Cove was better. And finally, the food also left me wishing we'd just gone to the Secret Cove instead.

Over all, not a bad place, but due to its location (right next to a better and cheaper restaurant), I doubt we'll ever go back.

We give this restaurant a 2 on the Regrettable to Edible Scale of Restaurant Judging.

February 12th, 2013 - Ship Inn, Snails & Hermit Crabs

We had dinner at the Ship Inn Bar & Restaurant tonight, which is adjacent to the Secret Cove. It didn’t win us over the way Secret Cove has, but the food was good and it has the same view. The tide was very low when we went out—so low that we could walk far out along the sandbars.

Ao Yon at low tide

It was along these sandbars that we found entire little ecosystems thriving in the sand. There were thousands of shells, most of them tiny, and most of them very much inhabited. This was pretty thrilling to us—not something I’ve had the chance to experience in Canada before, and never to this degree in Mexico. We spent the better part of an hour combing through the wet sand, inspecting all of the snails and hermit crabs. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures, but I’ll show some self-restraint and only post a few here:



- LuckyStar