Participating Restaurant Discounts with the
VIP Club Card

• Antigua Trattoria Romano, Codo #9, Tel. 152-3790, on the corner of Zacateros, often referred to as the Flat Iron Building. Antiqua Trattoria has a long reputation for serving Italian and international dishes. They serve fresh pastas, poultry, meats, salads, soups and seafood, open 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. daily. Members may take 10% off their bills when paying in cash, minimum 100 pesos.  Luciano is your host.



• "Bacco" an Italian style Restaurant, Hernandez Macias #59, inside Hotel Sautto, 154-5513, Tuesday through Saturday, lunch and dinner til 10.  Sunday, Noon 'til 6 p.m. Southern Italian style menu including brick oven baked Naples type pizza. Your host is Ricardo and VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill with a minimum spent of $100 pesos. Full bar.



• Baile Cafe, located inside Arthur Murray Dance Studio's rear patio, Hernandez Macias #68, 152-0097. The restaurant has been operating for some time with a good reputation and offers a varied menu serving both national and international dishes. Juan Carlos, former chef at Planta Baja is your host. Baile offers VIP Club members 10% off their bills.



• Berlin: Umaran #19, Tel. 154-9432, Authentic German Cooking: meats, poultry and fish. Known for their famous asparagus dishes, great bar atmosphere. **tied for best dinner house in San Miguel in Atencion's reader survey, plus one of the runner's up for best bar**



• Buen Café - ( New Location), Jesus #36, 152-5807.  Breakfast lunch, open 'til 4 p.m. Closed Wednesdays, Sunday brunch special menu NYC style, 10 - 2 p.m. Garden setting and indoor seating. In business seventeen years. Various items, national and international dishes, fresh ingredients, daily specials, soups, salads and mouth watering desserts. Only Beer.



• Bugambilia - (new location) Sollano #21, Tel. 152-0127.
   Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Closed Wednesdays. Traditional Mexican dishes. (15%) (no credit cards for discount).



• Café de San Francisco, Posada San Francisco - Plaza Principal 2, Tel. 152-2486. Courtyard and street side dining, full menu, Mexican cuisine including seafood and full bar. They have expanded, in a sense, because what used to be known as "Alfredo's" has now been incorporated under the same name, Café de San Francisco.  The menu is the same in both restaurants. All is open now seven days a week: the patio restaurant, bar, and back dining room. 10% discount to VIP Club card holders.



• Cafe etc. AKA Juan's Cafe, Relox #37, 154-8636. Open everyday, inexpensive complete breakfasts and lunch. Many items to chose from. Free Internet, and Spanish lessons, philosophy classes and spiritual meetings.



• Café Monte Negro, Correo #14, Tel. 152-1448, open seven days a week, 8:30 am - 9:30 pm. Cafe Monte Negro serves breakfast, lunch and comidas, plus an array of bake goods, smoothies and coffees. They also sell coffee by the kilo, ground or whole bean. VIP Club members may take 10% off when the bill is over $100 pesos, cash only.



• Cafe Rama, Nueva #7, 154-9566. Hip fusion cuisine, late night tapas on weekends, full bar. Chef Jason creates and presents various treats from multi course foodie dinners on certain nights to good home-made international favorites. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill



• Carcasonne (car-ca-son) Correo #34, 152-0053, open everyday, Sunday through Thursday 1 - 10 pm., Friday and Saturday 'til 11 pm. Carcasonne, at first specialized in French dishes but now has added an array of International plates. Some favorites are the escargots, the duck, beef Wellington and a wide variety of other dishes. Carcasonne features a full bar. VIP Club members can take off 10% when paying cash and 7% when using a credit card. Hannah, is your host.



• Casa Blanca - Hidalgo #34, Tel. 154-6070. Famous for crepes, pizza and international cuisine. (15%) ($100 pesos minimum)



• Casa de los Milagros, Reloj #17, Bar and Restaurant with live music regularly scheduled. 10% discount to VIP Club card holders. Telephone: 152-0097.



• Casa Payo - Zacateros #26. Tel. 152-7277. Landmark San Miguel Argentinean steak house. (10%)



• Cumpanio, off the corner of Correo and Recreo, 15 . . . . 152-23-27, contemporary downtown eating emporium with window seating especially designed for people watching or the rear room, plush, upscale intimacy, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with a full bar. A combination bakery/restaurant Cumpanio offers an international menu; lamb chops, curry dishes, meats, poultry and more. VIP Club members may take off 10% when paying in cash. (Bakery items for take out are excluded from the Club discount.)



• Dragon, Salida a Celaya #71, 185-8686-or 8687, open seven days a week, Noon 'til 9 p.m. Dragon specializes in Chinese food. Dragon's menu is extensive and carries all your favorite Chinese dishes. There is free and ample off road parking, exclusively for Dragon customers just down from the restaurant. They also offer free delivery. Dragon now offers VIP Club members 10% off food and drink, in restaurant dining or take out. For now NO discount for home delivery. Also, Wednesdays and Fridays are BYOB days. No corkage fee . . . yet Jose Luis asks patrons to remember their waiters.



• Dos Casas Restaurant-- located inside the small luxury hotel with the same name on the corner of Umaran and Quebrada. 154-4073. Open seven days a week from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. except Mondays when they close at 2 p.m. The charming white table clothed restaurant has a diverse menu for fine dining. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill when paying by cash or credit card.



• El Asador Catalán -- Km. 9 Salida a Querétaro, Tel. 120-8118 Open 1 until 7pm. Closed Mondays. Renowned traditional Spanish fare. 15% cash, 10% credit card



• El Correo Restaurant - Correo #23, Tel. 152-4951 Good traditional Mexican food, full bar, closed Tuesdays. (15% cash, 10% credit card)



• El Manantial, corner of Barranca and Huertes, 110-0007, open almost every day, 5 'til late.Closed on Mondays. El Manantial, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest cantina in San Miguel. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bills when it exceeds 100 pesos.



• El Meson Hotel, Mesones #80, 152-0580, open seven days a week, breakfast, lunch and dinner. A beautiful setting for any occassion. Recently the restaurant portion has been taken over by the hotel's management. Many of you know Alvaro, owner operator of the hotel, and also the force behind VIP Club participating restaurant El Correo. The hotel/restaurant serves a complete breakfast menu. The lunch and dinner menu is a diverse combination of traditional national and international dishes. VIP Club members can take 20, count 'em, 15% discount off food and beverage paying either cash or credit card! On top of that, from right now until February 28, VIP Club members only get 2 X 1 all the time on all beers, spirits and soft drinks!



• El Pegaso, Corregidora #6, 154-7611. Since its beginnings, El Pegaso consistently set the gold standard when it comes to operating a restaurant in San Miguel. Open everyday, except Wednesdays, for breakfast lunch and dinner. El Pegaso, renowned for good food, reasonable prices, and an attentive staff; long-timers still rave about El Pegaso's eggs benedict, or the Chiles en Nogada or their famous pork loin. Full bar, soups, salads to desserts. Beto and Robin are your hosts. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill when paying cash with a minimum purchase of 100 pesos.



• El Tomato, Mesones #62, Tel. 154-6390, Open from 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Emphasizing: no longer strictly a vegetarian restaurant, a mix of Italian and Argentine synergy, arrachera, Rib Eye, pastas, great wines and "Eat Well, Feel Better." Now serving Argentinian steaks and other prime cuts. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill when paying cash.



• Fenicia, Zacateros #73, Tel. 154-7874, is open 12-6 Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday through Ssaturday til 8:30.  Lebanese and Middle Eastern foods are the specialty at Fenecia. They offer tasty salads such as Fattuch, Tabbule, Mafuf with pita bread. They also serve Falafel, Kaftua (beef), Kibbe (lamb) a number of shishkabobs, beef, lamb and chicken and much more! Save room for yummy baklava. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill when paying cash. Leticia and Nancy are your hosts, the cooks and they both do the whole deal!


Garufa, off the corner of Canal and Hernandez Marcias, #15, 154-6555, Argentine themed Steak House, showcasing a well-lit, modern, decor in rich woods specializing in man-sized Southern Hemisphere meat dishes. Yet there are a number of other choices from poultry to those delicacies stemming from the sea and veggie dishes. Very interesting appetizers. One peso corkage charge on Wednesdays and Thursdays. VIP Club members may take of 10% of their bill when paying in cash.


• Hacienda Guadalupe Restaurant, Hidalgo #4. 121-0700, beautiful re-gentrified hotel restaurant. Extra generous happy hour deals from their full bar. Casual elegance, new menu carrying both national and international meals. Soups and salads with revolving menu and an array of dishes to match many tastes. Thursday nights salsa dancers headquarters. Closed Mondays.



• Harry's Louisiana Cafe - **voted best bar in San Miguel's in Atencion's reader survey, plus a runner up in best dinner house** Hidalgo #12, Tel. 152-2645 for dinner reservations. Fresh sea food, cajun and creole dishes, extensive wine list, open 7 days a week. (10%, Cash only)



• Hierbabuena, a mobile food catering truck operated by Chef Gabriela Green. Now one can hire their food truck for affairs along with their catering services for special events etc. VIP Club members get 10% off. Check out: http://www.hierbabuenacocina.com/



• La Cantesse Hotel Restaurant. Located next to the entrance to Los Frailes, La Cantesse is a great alternative for folks living in that area who don't wish to venture into town. Open early for breakfast, 7:30, 7/365 and open 'til 11 p.m. Full Mexican faire menu. VIP Club members may take 15% off their bill when paying cash and 10% with credit card, with a minimum bill of $100 pesos.



• La Crepe, Hospicio #37, 154-9435. San Miguel's crepe sensation, closed Wednesdays, yet other than Wednesday, open, Monday til Saturday 1 - 10 pm, Sundays 11 - 4 pm. More than just crepes: La Crepe serves a variety of soups, salads, meats and fish along with its mainstay, a plethora of perfectly prepared crepes filled with scrumptious ingredients chock with flavors from the four corners of the Earth. VIP Club members' may take 15% off their bill when paying cash and 10% when using credit card.



• La Felguera Restaurante, located inside Posada Carmina Hotel, Cuna de Allende #7, 152-8888. Long time a local favorite eating establishment for breakfast, lunch and dinner, indoor and outdoor seating. La Feguera, moderately priced, offers traditional Mexican specialties with full bar. VIP Club members may take 15% off their tab when paying in cash and 10% when using credit cards. Longtime restaurant operator Rafael Valdez is your host.



• La Gruta Restaurant (and Spa) is also available for private parties, after hours, with or without special served meals. Your contact there is General Manager Gonzalo Tapia who speaks great English. Entrance fee to La Gruta is 90 pesos per person but VIP Club members pay 80 and are entitled to 10% off food and drink at their restaurant along with the same discount applied to their other services messages etc. Located 10 kilometers outside town, on the road to Dolores Hidalgo, La Gruta is open everyday all-year-round from 7 am. 'til 5 pm. 185-2162.



• La Mesa Grande gourmet bakery and cafe, corner of Pila Seca and Zacateros. cel: 415-113-8522 or local 154-0838. Fernando and Robin are the principal bakers. lamesagrandesma@gmail.com. 10% discount for VIP Club members still applies with minimum 100 pesos purchase.



• La Puertecita - Santa Domingo #75 , Tel. 152-5011.
  Rated internationally, as one of the top 100 small luxury hotels in the entire world. (20%) (no discount on buffets). No corkage fee on Thursdays and on Wednesdays, 35% discount on menu bottles of wine.



• La Toscana, Hernandez Macias #83,Tel. 154-9608,
  open daily 1 p.m. until midnight, closed Tuesdays. Full bar and menu: Salads, a variety of pastas with various sauces, beefs, poultry and salmon. Wines from Italy, Spain, France, Argentina and Chile. 15% discount Cash only. $100 peso minimum.



• Longhorn Smokehouse BBQ --Great BBQ, full bar.Now open on Sunday. Salida de Celaya #6, Tel. 152-8983. (10% discount) ($100 pesos minimum). Additional location Hidalgo #18.



• Mama Tina - Sabor a Mexico - (former location of Romanos) Hernandez Macias #93, 152-3167. Open Tuesday through Sunday 1 pm - 1 am featuring traditional Mexican cuisine. Noted for home-made fine moles and chilis en nogada, Mama Tina's prepares its meals the old fashion ways. Enjoy dining downstairs or up on the rooftop setting. Mama Tina's can be your later-in-the-night choice when other establishments shut down their kitchens. VIP Club members can take 15% off their bills when paying cash. Ten percent off when using credit cards. (Credit card service presently being established with local bank).



• Market Bistro & Petit Bar - (Temporarily Closed)  Hernandez Macias #95,Tel. 152-3229. Country French cooking. Imported wines. Daily until 11pm, midnight on weekends. (15%, $100 peso minimum at bar)



• Mi Casa Restaurant, Tel. 154-5890,  inside Instituto Allende, formally the location of L'Invito. Mi Casa is open six days a week, Sunday through Friday, 1- 10 p.m closed Saturdays for special events. Mi Casa is operated by the Fernandez family with culinary expert and daughter Andrea at the helm. The food consists of time honored Mexican dishes along with  some international meals favored around the globe. There's a full bar and a magnificent view from the patio. VIP Club Members can take off 15% when paying cash and 10% when using credit cards.



• Oliver's has moved to Salida de Celaya, across from Longhorn, Tel. 154-7385. Oliver's has established itself as a Mecca for hamburgers here in San Miguel. Open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon 'til 10 p.m. Sunday 12-7 p.m. They serve a number of types of burgers rather they be Mexicano, French, Texan a slew of others with the whole shebang of ingredients that give them more gusto. Oliver's offer fries and other side dishes along with Philly Cheese Steaks! For those who don't eat meat, Oliver's has chicken burgers and Portabella mushroom and cheese burgers. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill. Jesus and Elizabeth are your hosts.



• Pescau Del Mar Al Bar, Jesus #21 152-8800. Pescau offers an array of fresh seafood, raw and cooked, along with meats and poultry. Pescau serves soups and rice dishes too. There's a well-stocked modern bar and the decor is upscale, best described perhaps as a casual elegant. A children's menu is also available. Pescau is open everyday 12-12 midnight. VIP Club members can take 15% off their bill when paying cash and 10% when using credit card. Juan Carlos and Alberto are your affable hosts. There complete menu, including prices and other amenities can be found on http://www.pescau.com/



• Petite Bar, Hernandez Macias #95. Older members remember Petite and Market Bistro were a charter member restaurant and bar that have been with the club since the year 2000. Sanmiguelense and long time VIP club member, Tomas LeNoir, has taken the reins. Right now it is just a bar. The restaurant portion of the establishment is temporarily on hold. Cooked food is on the near horizon. This weekend look for a hot rock reggae band Friday and Saturday nights. VIP Club members may take 15% off their tabs after they exceed 100 pesos and pay in cash.



• Pizza Pig, located a couple of kilometers outside town on the hiway heading for Dolores, at the intersection for the Toboada pools and spa, 110-2153, open Tuesdays/ Saturdays, 1 - 9 pm. and Sundays, 1- 8 pm. Lips smacking thin and crispy crust pizza. Many toppings, three sizes, take out or eat in, also, salads and pizza deserts, no kidding pizza desserts. More to come in the near future. VIP Club members may take 10% off their purchase. Your host is Tim McCoy. Find 'em on Facebook.



• Restaurante Del Jardin - Right off the jardin, open seven days a week, breakfast, lunch and dinner, super service (10%) **runner up for best breakfast in San Miguel in Atencion's reader survey**



• Restaurante Sicilia en Bocca, Salida a Queretaro #91, 152-0406 cel 415-107-2401. Sicilia en Bocca specializes in southern Italian dishes with time honored, original, handed-down recipes. The restaurant has a spectacular terrace view looking down at our town. Sicilia en Bocca, serving lunch and dinner, closed Mondays, open Tuesday - Frirday 1 pm until 10 pm and Saturdays and Sundays they open at 11 am. Juan Manuel is your host. VIP Club members can take 10% off their bills paying in cash or credit card. In addition, Sicilia enBocca will pay your taxi fare to the restaurant from city boundaries to the restaurant. If the drive does not have a nota remision give your waiter the taxi # to qualify you for the complimentary taxi fare. 



• Sierra Nevada Restaurants (two locations) Hospicio #35 152-1436 & Santa Elena (parque location) 152-7153. Casual elegance at the Centro location and more local dishes at the parque location. (15% cash, 10% credit card.



• Ten Ten Pie Restaurant: Two locations: Corner of Cuadrante and Cuna Allende & Stirling Dickinson, #5, Small, clean and resonable prices, local restaurant, open seven days a week, serving breakfast lunch and dinner, serves late (10%) (20% off spirits) **runner up for best lunch in San Miguel in Atencion's reader survey**  2nd location (formerly known as El Chimi Churri Restaurant) Cellular phone: 044-415-101-7851. A parrilla type restaurant, Grilled meats, empanadas, chistorra, hamburgers and much more. Open Tues-Sunday, Noon 'til seven in winter, 'til nine summertime.. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill.



• The Restaurant-- Sollano #16, 154-7877.  They are now open for lunch from Noon to 4 p.m.  And their unique drinks specials run during happy hour 5-7. The Restaurant also has a new mouth watering bar menu and that menu is available until 11 p.m. Tuesday Through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Set in a quaint and comfortable courtyard the menu is a mix of Nuevo and traditional dishes designed and prepared by expert chef Donnie and wife Cynthia. Main dishes are an array of fishes, poultry, including duck, pastas and meats. VIP club members may take 10% off their tabs when paying with cash or credit card.



• Tio Lucas: Mesones #103, Tel. 152-4996, Hallmark San Miguel steakhouse, plus. Open seven days, serves late, nightly entertainment. (10%)



• VC and Friends, a new restaurant show place, Hernandez Macias #83, open Wednesdays until Sundays late, with live entertainment each night starting at 9 pm, featuring a strong line-up of the town's most popular entertainers. Food service until midnight. VC serves an assortment of tacos, tostadas and seafood cocktails and has a full-bar with beer, wine and spirits. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill by paying either cash or credit card.



• Venus Lounge (Thai and Vietnamese) Mesones #74, 154-4120, open seven days a week 1 p.m. until midnight. Venus has earned impressive rank as the bellwether, chock-full-of-taste Oriental eatery in centro! If you like it hot, they make it hot, with many Oriental favorites. Operators Sam and Rod want to be part of Your Club! Venus has a full bar and often offers live music on certain evenings with ad-hoc line ups of some of San Miguel's best jazz musicians. VIP Club members may take 10% off their bill.



• Villa Mirasol; Inside Villa Mirasol Hotel, open for breakfast and lunch in garden setting. (20% VIP Club discount, 100 pesos minimum)



• Vivoli Cafe , Hernandez Macias #66, Tel. 152-0045. Featuring classic Italian dishes, meats, fish, salads and an array of pastas. Open for lunch and dinner, closed Tuesdays. (10% discount, cash or credit card.)

  New restaurants are added frequently, and occasionally restaurants drop out of the program with 60 days notice. Ask for the bi-monthly restaurant club newsletter at authorized outlets for detailed information on restaurants and the current list of participants. All participating restaurants are under contract with the San Miguel Restaurant Club to provide the same fine service as they would to patrons who walk in off the street. Discounts are waived during happy hours, 2X1 specials or other special events in which the restaurant is offering discounts to the public at large.

Notice: Certain Restaurants and Businesses may have restrictions that do not appear on this website. Please contact San Miguel VIP Club directly for a complete list of participating businesses and restrictions.

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