The Bluegrass Peasant samples the local sausage at a venerable hostería in a hotel on the main square in Valladolid, halfway between Mérida and Cancún on the Yucatán Peninsula. Housed in a lovely Spanish colonial building, the Mesón del Marqués counts as one of the most popular hotels and restaurants in the region. In addition to typical Mexican dishes found throughout the country, the menu showcases a wide variety of Yucatecan specialties such as Mayan pumpkin seed dip and cochinita pibil.