The main brewery in Cabo San Lucas is Baja Brewing Company. It was founded in 2007 in San Jose Del Cabo. In 2009, they opened a second location in Cabo San Lucas on the seventh floor of the Corazon Cabo Beach Resort, which looks like an amazing beach hotel perched above the sand at Medano Beach. Follow the signs through the hotel to find the brewery. On the seventh floor, the elevator door opens to a beautiful unobstructed view of Medano beach. There are clear views to the east and west stretching for miles along with a view of Lover’s Beach. There cannot be a better view of the area around Medano Beach than this.
Baja Brewing Company is an open air rooftop bar with a very large pergola/sunshade covering to protect from the relentless Baja sunshine. It is a fairly large bar and restaurant with about 25 to 30 tables and a large bar. There is a great view from nearly every seat. I cannot say enough about the view from this bar, it is absolutely amazing. On top of that, we were in Cabo San Lucas in January, when the high temperatures were 76 to 79 degrees every day and the breeze was fairly gentle. I cannot imagine a more ideal place than this on a winter’s evening.
I emailed Baja Brewing Company a couple of months in advance asking for a reservation along the glass. I wanted to have a sunset dinner with my lovely wife on our 25th Anniversary. I apparently am not that great at geography, because you can’t see the sunset from here, but it was beautiful nonetheless. They did not disappoint and arranged a nice table right on the glass for us.
There were 3 cruise ships anchored in the bay outside Medano Beach. From what we could gather, there are always cruise ships parked there. If you plan to come to Baja Brewing Company, I would suggest you make a reservation in advance, if you want to sit by glass. Both nights we were there, there were available seats, but all of the seats near the edges were reserved.
The beer was, and keep in mind that I’m a tremendous beer snob, pretty good. Every beer I tried, which was a red ale, a stout and an IPA, was solid. There wasn’t any beer that I tried that blew me away, but there wasn’t any beer that disappointed me either. It was good microbrewery beer.
The food we had was also okay, not great. I believe I had the Fish and Chips and Jenn had Fish Tacos, neither of us were thrilled or offended by the food, it was fine. It seemed like pretty standard bar food that you would order at a microbrewery.
That being said, it was such an amazing place that even though the beer and food were just okay, we did return a couple of days later for a couple of beers. The atmosphere is just too good to pass up. Honestly, if you like beer at all or food for that matter, you need to stop in if you are in Cabo just for the views. It’s just too good to miss.
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