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Carnitas Merchant.

Carnitas, Michoacán style · Centro · Staple · verified

Av. Benito Juárez, Centro, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, 77713

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Carnitas Merchant

Carnitas on Avenida Benito Juárez, near the ferry terminal end of the Centro. Jeff saved it and wrote nothing beside it.

Why go

The name is the menu. Carnitas is Michoacán's dish, pork cooked down slowly in its own fat, and a place calling itself a carnitas merchant is telling you it does one thing. Nothing approved has written about this door, so I have no dish, no cook and no opinion to hand you.

Good to know

  • Where: Av. Benito Juárez, in the Centro. The saved address stops at the avenue and carries no street number.
  • Nobody has checked it since Jeff pinned it in 2023. It publishes no site, nothing approved covers it, so treat the hours as unknown and ring ahead.

Verdict

listed — Jeff put it on his Playa list and wrote nothing beside it, and nobody I am allowed to cite has written about it either. The name is the only fact doing any work: carnitas Michoacán style, on Avenida Benito Juárez near the ferry. I could not confirm the door is still trading, there is no street number in anything I read, and the search results were all banned sources or auto-generated listing pages. It is a listing, and it will stay one until somebody with a byline eats there.

At a glance

  • Booking: walk-in
  • Timing: lunch
  • Best for: cheap eats, quick, lunch
  • Verified 2026-08-28

Where

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Av. Benito Juárez, Centro, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, 77713

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Key: what the badges mean

★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.

Sources & mentions

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Record

page id
carnitas-merchant
city
Mexico
group
Restaurants
category
Restaurant
cuisine
Carnitas, Michoacán style
area
Centro
price
editorial class
Staple
verdict
Listed
how I know
verified
confidence
low
status
Open
address
Av. Benito Juárez, Centro, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, 77713
coordinates
20.624913, -87.07934
last verified
2026-08-28