Camaroncito Mariscos San Miguel de Allende

We're Sitting in a small shoebox size room with green painted walls and Glass front fridges displaying Leon, Victoria,Corona and Negra Modelos. The kitchen is a taco cart parked on one side of the room. The plastic wrapped tables are pushed together so much that the back of our wooden Corona chairs are smashed against the table next to us. The young waitress girls sporting jeans 3 sizes too small with a jelly roll hanging out between thier juvenile T-Shirts run from person to person taking orders for Cocktails and offering options such as Serrano chile o' Jalepeno? Crakers o' tostatas? Everything comes out of the Taco cart. I mean everything. All the cocktail glasses are washed in a 5 gallon bucket right below where the limes are getting sliced in half by a young boy and on top of him is an older man spooning up seafood from various bowls and colorful bins. In the center of every table is a motly mix of salsa bottles. Homemade salsa is offered up in recycled plastic oil bottles. We all order Medium cocktails with shrimp and octopus. They arrive at the table with half an avacado sliced and floating on top. As a garnish one large shrimp with it's head and tail still in tact becomes kinda a symbol of Camaroncito. Later as we're making our way into the sea of cocktails the waitress stops by to see if we need more avacado or more chile. Hum.... more avacado? It's Camaroncitos niche. You can get good cocktails in many places but only one serves up so much extras for so little.

Camaronicto is on Salida Dolores just a few doors down on the right from the interesection of Hidalgo and Calzada.