Art & Beer

Back to Cabo...

On Wednesday we made a day trip to Todos Santos, home of the Hotel California. I'll post later about Todos Santos, so for now you'll have to settle for a little roadside drinking emporium called Art & Beer.




Art & Beer is on Highway 19, about 6 miles south of Todos Santos. The owners (his name is Alex, I did not get hers) are from Tijuana, and are without question holdovers from the 1960's. They certainly know how to make a drink, and they also know how to make one feel at home. Their business is little more than a series of thatched huts that are decorated in the kitchiest way imaginable. During the off-season, they paint. In season, they sell drinks and play music.

They have solar panels for electricity, which are augmented by a generator. Art & Beer sits about 300 yards from the Pacific Ocean, but there is no fresh water available, so they have it hauled in. They also have 2 cisterns, and that water is used to water their plants. It's also used to fill the clay tank in the restroom that is their sink. It's beyond me how the cisterns are replenished -- someone told us that during the last "rainy season," this area of Baja got about two-tenths on an inch of rain. (Update on this -- we later learned that whoever told us that was wrong. They get "tons" of rain during the hurricane season, according to an American ex-pat we talked to on the way back to the US.)

Enjoy the pictures, and note the drinks. Dave and I are drinking Tequila Sunrises, Mary is drinking a Pina Colada (which was served in a carved-out pineapple, and refilled 3 times while we were there), and note the garnish on Dorothy's glass of wine. Alex is shown making a Clamato, which contained, among other things, two clams, red caviar, several other food items, and many little dashes of I-don't-know-what. It is the "breakfast of champions."