Güeros ~ Hermosillo, Mexico

First visit: Feb 2025

Our stomachs were all a bit rocky after our bad diet day on Thursday. We needed a good breakfast to get on track. Enter Oldest Sibling, resident of Hermosillo. After 29 years of marriage / dating, I know almost all of Mrs. RJG's extended family. But after all these years, I had never met the oldest brother. He's 67. Mrs. RJG is the youngest (of nine) and she's 51. But on this Friday morning, that goal of meeting all the siblings has finally been met. Also met for the first time his wife and youngest daughter (who is 24). Yet another beautiful niece. Hope she's not getting married soon. Or find a nice place in the USA to do so...

He recommended Güeros, a whopping $1.50 Uber ride away. They identify with mariscos (seafood) but honestly I saw it as another Mexican coffee shop with more options for seafood. That didn't sound appealing to me, but that appealed to Mrs. RJG and her sister (call her Denver Sister for this trip). First I wanted a stomach settling drink. And I found the perfect elixir: Lemonade Mineral. Essentially lemonade mixed with sparkling water. I remember getting that at a restaurant in Denver (Garcia's) long ago and it was so delicious. I should make an effort to look for that again here in the States. Just what I needed. They brought out chips (in small sealed bags) with a few salsas, all of them excellent. Mild to spicy, with unique flavors.

For breakfast I settled on the Omelette Mixto. The mixto consists of ham and beef sausage. It was really quite good. And those beans you see were delicious as well. I laid off the salad, just something I tend to do when traveling in third world countries. That glass you see is the Lemonade Mineral. 

I think 10 of us were there for breakfast (the younger contingent of the Colorado 9 woke up later and didn't join us, so it was only Mrs. RJG, Denver Sister, Ghana Ambassador, and myself from our core group). Everyone really enjoyed it and Mrs. RJG went for a more traditional Mexican breakfast after all. And for an encore Mrs. RJG's Official Mom picked up the tab - first time ever since I've known her (close to the beginning of our courtship). She's 90 years old. She would have done that much more, but she didn't have any money. Finally she received much overdue pension from Mexico last year, and feels "rich". It was wonderful to experience.

So much so, that we went again for breakfast on our last day (Sunday) before heading to the airport. We had six of the Colorado 9 this time. I stayed boring and ordered the same thing. I think Mrs. RJG did feel like seafood on this visit, but she didn't really enjoy it much. Denver Sister said it wasn't as good as last time. But I'd go back if ever in Hermosillo again.

2/7/25 (new entry)