The year following its opening, Lorenzillo’s received the Five Star Diamond Award from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences for exceptional service, ambiance, and décor. Sit on the deck overlooking the marina and you’ll know you’re in Cabo San Lucas; dine inside and you could be anywhere in the world. The authentic nautical surroundings feature abundant brass and beautiful woods. Che-chent chairs, designed by the restaurant’s creator, Salvador Vidal, can be seen and enjoyed in the dining room. The chairs are a 100% native product of Cancun, where Salvador Vidal opened his first restaurant in 1979.
Be careful not to fill up on the hot bread made on the premises served with herbed butter; you must save room for any of the chef’s outstanding specialties. These might include crab cakes with cranberry sauce as a starter, or for entrees the Chilean sea bass will melt in your mouth. Fresh king crab legs and jumbo shrimp are always available for starters or entrees.
Difficult to find elsewhere except at Lorenzillo’s are soft shell crabs, stone crab claws, and crayfish. The international menu offers dishes prepared expertly in the kitchen that opens to the dining area. Choose your own live lobster from the dinghy tank and decide how you want it prepared: grilled, roasted, in coconut sauce, poblano sauce, pepper sauce, thermidor, steamed, or numerous other ways.
Combos are offered with seafood and meats. The julienne-chopped spinach salad is not only healthy, but worthy of a photograph with peeled and seeded tomato petals and goat cheese rounds, and bountiful enough to share, perhaps at lunch with a bowl of clam chowder.
It would be a sin not to save room for one of the decadent desserts, such as Isla de Sacrificios (Island of Sacrifices), a dessert of dark chocolate brownie over Chantilly crème with caramel sauce topped with vanilla ice cream and chocolate bits.
Attentive service without being obtrusive is appreciated. Entrees from $17 to $40 U.S. Located on the Cabo San Lucas Marina above UltraFemme, near Plaza Bonita. Open daily from 11a.m. to 11p.m. Reservations suggested. Call (624) 105-0212 or 105-0214.––Sandra Berry.
