Playa La Ropa is a horseshoe of sand on the eastern side of Zihuatanejo Bay, mountain-protected on three sides, which keeps the water glass flat almost year round. A dozen working palapa restaurants sit directly on that sand, and Rossy’s is the one locals have been going to longest. Fresh fish, ceviche, and tiritas, the Costa Grande specialty of raw fish cut in lime, chilli and onion. The sundeck and the beach palapas belong to the restaurant, and the arrangement is the old one: buy lunch and the chair is yours for the afternoon. No wristband, no minimum, no negotiation. The bay takes its name from a sixteenth century wreck that spilled Philippine silk onto this beach.
