Casa Banana

Casa Banana is the Argentine answer to Hartwood — wood-fired grill, picanha and ojo de bife as the headline cuts, focaccia and chimichurri as the starters, and the long candle-lit garden room that fills with Argentine accents and the regular Tulum crowd by nine. The vegan offering is genuinely good (rare in a steakhouse), and the wine list runs deep on Mendoza Malbec and Patagonia reds.

For groups that want the meat dinner without the Hartwood reservation difficulty, this is the easier-to-book alternative. Open until one a.m. — late by Tulum standards — which makes it the natural second stop after a Hartwood seating that ends at nine.

The Argentine grill in the Tulum jungle.