Where to stay, eat, drink, shop, and what to do in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Los Cabos is where the desert meets the sea—and where Lily Frank Jewelry reconnects with a heritage that has shaped the brand from the beginning.
Long before Lily Frank had a name, Mexico was part of its story. LFJ designer Afsaneh Taki is half Mexican, with family roots tracing back to the silver miners of Batopilas, deep within the Barrancas del Cobre—Mexico’s Copper Canyon.
That connection lives most visibly in our Vintage Collection. Our love of Mexican silver—its weight, patina, hand-worked surfaces, and unapologetic scale—shapes every piece we collect. We look for substantial earrings, bold rings, and sculptural necklaces that still carry the character of the hands that made them.
This is not vintage as nostalgia. It is vintage as living design.
Los Cabos brings this visual language into focus: sculptural cacti, whitewashed architecture, turquoise water, and mountains turning rose gold at sunset. Historic San José del Cabo adds adobe buildings, independent galleries, and intimate restaurants, while the coastline offers discreet resorts, organic farms, and mezcal beneath the stars.
Polished in some places and beautifully elemental in others, Los Cabos has always has inspired the Lily Frank vintage collection.
Our guide gathers the exceptional hotels, independent shops, destination restaurants, cocktail bars, landmarks, and unforgettable experiences that capture Baja at its most distinctive.
Where to stay
Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal
Reached through a tunnel bored into the Pedregal headland, which sets the tone before you have unpacked. Every room has its own plunge pool and faces open Pacific — this is the dramatic one, and the water in front of it is for looking at rather than swimming in.
Zadún, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
On the Puerto Los Cabos side, low and quiet and built into the dunes. Reserve properties are deliberately small; this one trades spectacle for privacy. The temazcal ritual here is the thing people come back talking about.
Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos at Costa Palmas
Further up the East Cape on the Sea of Cortez, where — unusually for Los Cabos — the water is calm enough to actually swim. Two miles of swimmable beach, a marina village, and a slower stretch of coast than the corridor.
Where to eat
Flora’s Field Kitchen
A twenty-five acre working farm in the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna, with the restaurant set in the middle of the fields it draws from. Wood-fired oven, on-site bakery and butcher, a menu that moves with the season, and a Michelin Guide recommendation. Go for a long lunch rather than dinner so you can see the farm.
Acre
Twenty-five acres down the same road, more composed and more designed than Flora — a palm forest with a restaurant in it, and treehouses if you want to stay. The cocktails are the strongest in San José.
El Farallón
Built into the cliff face at Pedregal, above the Pacific, with the catch laid out on ice and chosen at the table. The Champagne Terrace opens before dinner for the sunset. As theatrical as Los Cabos gets, and it works.
Las Ventanas al Paraíso
The most formal dining on the corridor, in the resort that set the standard for the region. Worth the evening if you want Los Cabos in its most polished register.
Where to drink
La Botica
A mezcal bar in a small building in San José’s old town, with a list built around small producers rather than brands. Ask what they are pouring from Oaxaca and let them lead.
La Lupita Taco & Mezcal
Tacos and mezcal in the Art District, live music most nights, and consistently full. The one to do before the Art Walk rather than after.
Clandestina
Small, dark, and deliberately hard to spot — the cocktail room San José locals send you to once you have done the obvious ones.
What to see
El Arco at Land’s End
The granite arch where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez, at the tip of the peninsula. It is only reachable by water; a panga from the marina takes twenty minutes. Go early, before the day boats.
Misión San José del Cabo
The mission church on Plaza Mijares, founded in 1730, rebuilt after the Pericú rebellion, and still the centre of the old town. The tiled mosaic above the door commemorates the killing of the founding priest — the town’s history is on the façade if you look.
Plaza Mijares
The square in front of the mission, with the papel picado strung overhead and everything in San José radiating outward from it. The right place to start the evening.
Capilla de Palmilla
A small white chapel above the water on the Palmilla point, the most photographed wedding site in Baja and beautiful when empty. Early morning.
Where to shop
The San José del Cabo Art District
The blocks around Obregón, Morelos, Guerrero and Comonfort, where twelve galleries sit within a few streets of each other in restored adobe buildings. Open all week, not only for the Art Walk.
The Shops at Palmilla
The polished end — design, resort wear and jewellery, in one place, if you want to do it efficiently.
Zingara
Resort wear with actual point of view, and the one place on the corridor worth browsing slowly.
What to do
- The San José del Cabo Art Walk. Every Thursday from 5pm to 9pm, November through June. Twelve galleries open their doors with music and refreshments, the artists are usually there, and it is free. If your trip includes a Thursday in season, build the evening around this.
- Cabo Pulmo. An hour and a half up the East Cape, a national marine park and the oldest coral reef on the west coast of North America — a fishing community closed it to fishing in 1995 and the biomass recovered several times over. It is the best snorkelling in Baja and a genuine conservation story.
- A private sunset sail. Out of the marina, around Land’s End, timed so the arch is lit from the west.
- A temazcal. The pre-Hispanic sweat ceremony, done properly with a guide rather than as a spa treatment.
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What we pack for Cabo
Archival Taxco silver, because the light there is direct and rewards real weight and real relief: the Spratling nautilus pair if it is still with us, otherwise the Large Vintage Scallop Shell Earrings. And one pair of Small Two-Toned Nautilus for daytime, because they go with everything and weigh nothing.
The full styling story is in This and That: Cabo Edition. The silver itself is in the Vintage Collection.