Mexico City: Restaurant Review – Pujol
When I was in Mexico City earlier this year I was on an
organised trip which took us to some great restaurants but one of the best
restaurants in Mexico City was not on the list.
I kept thinking how much I would have loved to visit and have a meal at
Pujol, one of the top 20 restaurants in the world and probably the best and
most well known in Mexico City.
talking how much we would have loved to eat at Pujol the food theatre by head
chef Enrique Olivera so we gave them a telephone call. They tend to be booked up for three-four
months in advance, and even though we were not expecting to get a reservation, Anita still made the phone call. Surprisingly they could fit us in for lunch
on the Monday, our free day before we took off for home that evening!! We were ecstatic with anticipation!
plaque on the wall was all the indication that we had arrived at the right
place.
however with a flight in the evening I really didn’t want loads of wine and
neither did Anita so we just ordered one large glass each to go with our
meal. The wine list was international
with wines from all over the world however as we were in Mexico and I have
tasted Mexican wine before which is very nice, I went for a white 2013 Fluxus, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja california, Mexicoand Anita settled on a red which was also Mexican.
There is only one menu for the lunch time and each party had the same pre-starters and puddings. There was choice in the other courses with three items and you picked one from each section. Anita and I tried to have different choices to see as much of the menu as possible.
the mystery of the occasion and the place.
Once opened there was still some surprises since the descriptions
sometimes didn’t give much away. The
dessert course for instance was called ‘Happy Endings’!
The first course, a sort of pre-starter called ‘Street
Snacks’ was five little portions of exquisite tapas containing much of the
Mexican cuisine we had grown used to but with a slight variation on ingredients
and presentation.
The hollowed out gourd arrived smoking and intriguing capturing our attention and those of the diners around us who had not yet been served. There is an element of theatre as well as taking you away from the traditional ways of serving Mexican food whilst the flavours and names of some of the dishes remained true to tradition. ‘Baby corn, powdered chicatana ant, coffee, costeno chile mayonnaise’.
The little brown flecks on the baby sweet corn are in fact the powdered ants! That I could handle but if they had bodies and antennae looking at me I would have abstained!
‘Escamol sheath’
‘Bocol Huasteco (corn dough with cheese, lard)’
‘Corcurbita’
I think this was my favourite bit of the whole meal, the sesame crunch and taste was just exquisite, so delicate and fine. ‘Chia tostada’.
Jeepers! That is one hell of a meal Heidi, I bet you had to have a nap before you got on your flight 🙂
So many interesting courses and flavours that I've never heard of, I'm so glad you managed to gt a table and share the meal with us.
Janie x
We had a 10 hour flight back so plenty of time to sleep the meal off!!
WOWSERS! What a meal! Such theatre, such care. And powdered ants? Crazy wonderful.
It certainly was a gastronomic experience! Would love to try some of the other restaurants in the top 50 now!
Look at that incredible feast! Powdered ants – whoa!
As long as the ants were powdered it was ok – if there had been any little faces I wouldn't have tried them!
Great place to enjoy a fine dining evening in Mexico City, one of the best places in Latin America for sure, especially the tasting menu and wine pairing. Kind of expensive, but totally worth it!
Marlene
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