El Anclote is the public beach at the mouth of the Punta Mita peninsula, and it still works as a fishing village first: boats anchored off the sand, nets drying, the morning catch sold straight off the pangas. El Coral sits on that beach and cooks what comes in. Tables on the sand, seafood built around the day’s landing, and a west-facing view over Banderas Bay for the sunset. The break in front is gentle enough that half the peninsula learned to surf on it, so the crowd is a mix of surfers, families and people who drove out from Vallarta for lunch and stayed.
