Cooking Services
At Tankah Shores we want your entire experience to be nothing less than perfect, so we are pleased to offer cooking services at no extra charge. Our excellent staff is available to prepare breakfast and dinner for your party from our house menu with one day’s advanced notice.
Due to the limited kitchen space, all meals are served “family style”, meaning one single entree is served to your entire party. Additional entrees are available for a $20 USD additional charge, but due to space limitations we typically limit the number of different entrees to two.
Dinner is typically served at 6pm. If you choose to dine earlier or later, our staff will prepare the meal for you ahead of time and you can warm it up to serve as your schedule allows.
While cooking services are provided at no cost, you are responsible for paying for the groceries for your meals. Our staff will do the shopping for all the meals you order for a small $25 USD fee for each required shopping trip.
Pre-order Your Groceries for Arrival with our Grocery Delivery Service!
Start your vacation off right by allowing the friendly staff at Tankah Shores stock your pantry with all the necessities prior to your arrival for a small service fee of only $25 USD. You are on vacation after all, and who wants to spend their first day in paradise grocery shopping?
Desayuno / Breakfast
- Huevos a la Mexicana / Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled eggs “Mexican” style with tomatoes, onions, and jalapeños. Served with either toast or corn tortillas.
- Huevos con Salsa / Sunny-side Up Eggs
Served with cream and salsa roja or salsa verde. Served with either toast or corn tortillas.
- Huevos Rancheros / Sunny-side Up Eggs
Made with tortillas and salsa roja. Served with refried beans.
- Hot Cakes / Pancakes
Served with bacon
- Plato de Frutas / Fruit Plate
Seasonal fruit plate.
- Pan de Plátano / Banana Bread
Tankah Shores famous banana bread.
- Quesadillas / Tortillas with Melted Cheese
Traditional quesadillas.
Botanas / Snacks
All snacks served with tortilla chips.
- Salsa Playa Azul
Mexican salsa loaded flavor. Be sure to specify “picante” (hot) or “no picante” (mild).
- Guacamole
A Tankah Shores favorite. You’ve never had a guacamole dip served so fresh.
- Quesadillas / Tortillas with Melted Cheese
Traditional quesadillas.
Sopa / Soup
- Sopa de Tortilla / Chicken Tortilla Soup
The Playa Azul house specialty. Chicken tortilla soup with panela cheese, cream and avocado.
- Sopa de Pollo con Verduras / Chicken Soup with Vegetables
Served with rice or pasta.
- Sopa de Lima / Chicken Lime Soup
The traditional soup of the Mayans, with peppers tomato, chicken and our secret ingredient.
- Sopa Minestrine / Minestrone Soup
Made from the freshest seasonal vegetables, pasta, beans and parmesan cheese.
- Todo Tipo de Cremas / Cream Soups
Tomato, Mushroom, Cilantro, Broccoli, Bean, Pepper
Ensalada / Salads
- Ensalada Verde / Green Salad
- Ensalada Mixta / Mixed Salada
- Ensalada Cesar / Ceasar Salad
With traditional house dressing, your choice of chicken or shrimp, croutons and parmesan cheese.
- Ensalada Especial / Special Salad
Gouda cheese, lettuce, avocado, tomato, balsamic vinegar and basil
- Ensalada de Mexicana / Mexican Salad
Cucumber, jimaca, grapefruit, oranges, corn and cilantro
Pollo / Chicken
- Posole / Chicken with hominy corn dish
Served with lettuce, onions, avocado, and chicharrón. Made with pork optional. Served with corn tortillas or chips.
- Pollo en Milanesa
Breaded chicken breast, may be served with garden salad or cabbage and rice or french fries.
- Spaghetti Playa Azul
The Tankah Shores house special. Made with your choice of chicken or shrimp, vegetables and soy sauce. Served with garlic bread and salad.
- Pollo a la Parrilla / Grilled Chicken
Served with grilled vegetables.
- Fajitas de Pollo / Chicken Fajitas
Served with onions, green pepper, refried beans, corn tortillas, and rice.
- Pollo Dorado / Fried Chicken
Served with broccoli salad.
- Enchiladas / Enchiladas
Amazing chicken-filled corn tortillas with either salsa roja or salsa verde. Served with refried beans and rice *Can be prepared vegetarian.
- Puechega de Pollo / Chicken Breast
Chicken breast stuffed with a delicious blend of vegetables and cheese, then grilled.
- Pollo Estilo Maya / Mayan Chicken
Chicken wrapped in banana leaves, baked in a fine herb tomato-based sauce.
- Brochetas de Pollo / Shish-ka-bobs
Chicken or beef brochetas, grilled with either salsa Mexicana, salsa picante or guacamole and frijoles.
- Pollo a la Mexicana
Chicken with tomatoes, onion, garlic and peppers.
- Pollo con Mole / Chicken Mole
Made with chile-chocolate sauce. Served with rice and green salad.
- Pollo Pibíl / Chicken Pibil
This is a popular Mayan dish that is made with a mild red spice (achiote), onions, tomatoes and baked in banana leaves. Served with rice.
- Brochetas / Shish-ka-bobs
Choose from shrimp, beef, chicken, or surf-and-turf. Served with potatoes or rice.
Carne / Beef
- Chiles Rellenos / Stuffed Poblano Chiles
Filled with ground beef, potatoes, onions, deep-fried in batter, simmered in
a delicious salsa roja. Also available vegetarian style. Served with rice. Typically not spicy, but every once in awhile you come across a hot one! - Tacos a Picadillos / Ground Beef Tacos
Soft-shell tacos made with ground beef. Served with refried beans and rice.
- Fajitas de Carne / Beef Fajitas
Served with onions, green pepper, refried beans, corn tortillas, and rice.
- Hamburguesa / Hamburger
- Arracheras Marinadas / Marinated Grilled Beef
Marinated grilled beef served with tortillas.
- Bistek a la Mexicana / Mexican Version of Swiss Steak
Beef with tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers.
- Bistek a la Cazuela / Beef Stew
Beef with tomaotoes, onion, garlic, peppers and potatoes in a sauce.
- Brochetas / Shish-ka-bobs
Choose from shrimp, beef, chicken, or surf-and-turf. Served with potatoes or rice.
Puerco / Pork
- Tacos al Pastor a la Parrilla / Pork Tacos
Grilled and marinated tacos served with grilled vegetables.
- Chuletas / Pork Chops
Made in salsa verde. Served with baked potato and grated cheese.
- Chuletas Fritas / Fried Pork Chops
- Poc Chuc
Pork marinated and grilled served with rice, red onions and tortillas.
Seafood / Mariscos
- Cerviche
Tomatoes, onions, cilantro with fish, shrimp, conch or lobster cured in lime juice (Here cerviche is considered a main dish; not an appetizer. Due to the extensive work involved, if you would like it as an appetizer, it is an additional $10.00 or 100 pesos.
- Mariscada / Seafood Mix
Selection of seafood, fish fillet, octopus, squid, shrimp or substitute conch or lobster. Accompanied by buttered vegetables and rice.
- Pesacado Tik n Shik
Fish grilled with achiote seasonings, onions, vegetables, (great for grouper, bouquinetta, Mojarra)
- Pesacado ala Tarta
Fish baked in aluminum foil with garlic, onion and seasonings.
- Filete de Pescado / Fresh Fish Fillet
Made with butter and garlic. Served with rice and vegetables.
- Camerones Empanizado / Fried Shrimp
Breaded, fried shrimp.
- Camerones al Mojo de Ajo / Garlic Shrimp
Shrimp with garlic butter sauce, rice.
- Camerones-Brocheta a la Parilla / Grilled Shrimp
Grilled Shrimp served with Salsa Mexican, rice and tortillas.
- Langosta / Lobster
Made with butter and garlic. Served with rice and vegetables.
- Brochetas / Shish-ka-bobs
Choose from shrimp, beef, chicken, or surf-and-turf. Served with potatoes or rice.
Accompaniments
Our staff can prepare the following and have suggested which ones are best with the various dishes, however, if you would like to substitute something, these are the options:- Arroz / Rice
Arroz rojo (with vegetables) or blanco (plain)
- Salsa Picante / Hot Sauce
Hot tomato sauce.
- Papas al Horno / Baked Potatoes
Baked Potatoes with butter.
- Spaghetti Poblano / Spaghetti with Chili Poblano
Spaghetti with chili sauce (not spice).
- Papas Francesa / French Fries
- Frijoles / Beans
- Ensalada / Salad
Specify lettuce or cabbage please.
Postres / Desserts
Desserts are billed to the client on the Extras list at rate of 50 pesos or $5.00 each.- Flan / Custard
- Brownies
- Key Lime Pie
- Cheesecake
