With Hotels With Great Taste , we’re pulling back the curtain for a peek at the “special sauce” that hotels use to create memorable, meaningful culinary experiences for their guests. As you head up the Pacific Coast from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, high-rise hotels and busy traffic give way to dense jungle and views of cloud-topped mountains. The 200 miles of shoreline running around Bahía de Banderas and north to San Blas is known as Riviera Nayarit, and it's commonly billed as being "untouched," due to its relative lack of development. That's now a misnomer, as an increasing number of visitors have flocked to the area in recent years and new hotels—and a modern highway—have cropped up to accommodate them, but the sentiment remains: Sipping mezcal with your toes in the sand, you'd be forgiven for thinking that you've found your own personal paradise. But more on that in a minute.…