Cancun Family Restaurants

Don't miss this cafe if you're a chocolate-lover. The shop uses Mayan chocolate, produced in Mexico, for its thick and creamy hot chocolate drinks and chocolate candies. The cafe also sells ice cream.

Teens and twenty-somethings, as well as parents, like the sophisticated tastes at this AAA Five Diamond restaurant, located in the Ritz-Carlton. A jazz trio and dance floor help to make the restaurant friendly, not stuffy. Highlights include the chipotle glazed duck breast with agave honey tequila sauce, as well as the dessert souffles.

Shrimp (steamed, grilled and breaded) stars at this family-friendly restaurant, which serves only wild-caught shrimp from Mexico's Pacific -- a type that's tastier and bigger than farm-raised shrimp. The restaurant, which has a play area for kids, also offers fish tacos and other items.

In Puerto Morelos, just before the Riviera Maya begins, La Suegra -- a simple, 30-seat beachfront restaurant -- serves moderately priced and tasty shrimp tacos, pork ribs and big hamburgers. Come for the bountiful, beachside Sunday barbecue from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.