La Fonda de Chalio, formerly known as Fonda de Santa Clara, is a restaurant in Mazatlán that enjoys the loyalty of local diners and is frequented by Rubén Rocha. It is located at Paseo de las Olas Altas 66 and offers dishes ranging from 200 to 300 pesos, with beer costing 40 pesos.
On the YouTube channel 'El Mazatleco', it is stated that La Fonda de Chalio is a landmark in Olas Altas, which, in addition to being a restaurant, is a gathering and entertainment place for breakfast, lunch, and dinner featuring seafood. Due to its proximity to the boardwalk, it offers a sea view and a pleasant atmosphere on weekends, with live music.
The menu at La Fonda de Chalio includes ranch-style shrimp, seafood specialties with garlic, coconut, ceviches, fillets, stuffed peppers, aguachiles, Taco Gobernador, beef machaca burritos, nachos with meat, tampiqueña beef, and other northern specialties.
Rubén Rocha Moya, governor of Sinaloa, invited Claudia Sheinbaum, Head of Government of CDMX, to have breakfast at La Fonda de Chalio, enjoying ranch-style shrimp together. Sheinbaum has shared her culinary preferences on several occasions, highlighting her taste for pozole, scallops, and seafood from Sinaloa.
In one of her Mañaneras, Sheinbaum commented on the shrimp from Sinaloa compared to those from Ecuador. Her husband is from Sinaloa, which explains her familiarity and appreciation for northern cuisine.
President Sheinbaum often visits different restaurants and establishments of Mexican gastronomy, such as El Puro Veneno basket tacos, Maguito in Tres Marías, El Mayor in the Historic Center of CDMX, and El Cometa in San Pedro Garza, Monterrey. In a post about her visit to Sinaloa in April 2023, Sheinbaum expressed a special affection for that land when visiting a restaurant in Mazatlán with Jesús, her companion.
