Mexican chef Jorge Vallejo’s star is certainly rising. Kicking off his career on cruise ships, he had a thorough training under Enrique Olvera in Mexico City and a brief stint at Noma with René Redzepi before opening Quintonil in 2012 with his wife Alejandra Flores, who runs the front of house. The restaurant has since [...]

Chefs Mikel Alonso (French by birth but Basque-Mexican by heart) and Bruno Oteiza (from Spain's San Sebastián) fuse native Basque flavours with Mexico’s ingredients; mix in fellow Spaniard Gerard Bellver’s culinary techniques honed at El Bulli with Ferran Adriàn and Biko is a restaurant on another planet. An explosion of two world’s colliding. Nestled above [...]

Critically acclaimed chef Martha Ortiz presents a kaleidoscope of colour and flavour. Chef Martha Ortiz's restaurant at the Las Alcobas hotel channels the spirit of artist Frida Kahlo with an avant-garde interior design that is as colourful and creative as the modern Mexican food she serves. Feminine, exuberant and wonderfully idiosyncratic, Dulce Patria is brimful [...]

Corazón de Tierra, meaning ‘Heart of the Land’ in Spanish, is the creation of young chef Diego Hernández, whose belief that the best flavours come from the healthiest, freshest food sparked the idea for the restaurant and its onsite orchard. Hernández grows everything from fruit and vegetables to olive oil and honey onsite and serves [...]

Punchy flavours and a focus on pork characterise this Mexican outpost. An hour’s drive west from Mexico City, Amaranta should be on the hit list of anyone looking to experience progressive Mexican cooking. Chef Pablo Salas applies contemporary but unshowy techniques to local produce creating big and bold flavours in the process. Amaranta’s pambacito de [...]