Located on the frontage road going south on the highway before the light before Walmart, El Grill is our favorite Mediterranean restaurant in Los Cabos. Waleed, the chef and owner is from Northern Iraq and was a chef in Cyprus, Greece, and London before moving to Los Cabos with his soon to be Mexican wife, Blanca. The menu at El Grill is regularly refreshed and includes lots of standard Greek dishes. It offers appetizers like Hummus, Domades, Spinakopita, Tatziki, Tapenade, and more. There are salads, soups and pita pizza. For the main courses, El Grill offers pasta, chicken, beef, lamb, and steaks and seafood.

Six of us were there for dinner to celebrate our friend’s birthday. It was a very early dinner as Ethan did not want to drive back to Shipwrecks on the East Cape in the dark. To start, we ordered several appetizers to share for the table including a Greek potato salad, and tapenade and tabouli with warm pita bread. The Greek potato salad is made with olive oil rather than mayonnaise and includes tomatoes, onions and greens. It is delicious. The dips are always great. In fact, I order them to pick up whenever we are going to a neighbor for dinner.

For main courses the choices ranged across the menu. I selected the Manitari pasta with white wine and mushrooms. Beth chose the Prasino – a shrimp with pesto and pasta. Ethan, the birthday boy selected the chicken parmegiana with eggplant. Larry ordered the curry chicken and Carol had the vegetarian falafel, served with a small Greek salad. The table was silent for as everyone dug into their main courses. We did a little sharing to try the dishes chosen by others. The food was excellent and the wine and mezcalitas flowed. Everyone was too full to consider dessert.

The food, service and atmosphere at El Grill are always great and the prices are very reasonable.