Pujol

Enrique Olvera · Mexico City, Mexico

Tennyson 133, Polanco, Mexico City

Pujol is the most significant Mexican restaurant in the world, the place where Enrique Olvera began the work of examining, celebrating, and reinterpreting Mexico's extraordinary culinary traditions with the rigour of international fine dining. It holds two Michelin stars and has ranked in The World's 50 Best for over a decade.

Enrique Olvera opened Pujol in 2000 in Mexico City's Polanco neighbourhood, a few blocks from the Bosque de Chapultepec. He had trained at The Culinary Institute of America and returned to Mexico with a question: what would Mexican cuisine look like if treated with the same seriousness as French or Japanese cooking? The answer, developed over 25 years, is Pujol. The restaurant's most celebrated dish is the mole madre, a mole that has been continuously alive for years, renewed daily, its depth accumulating over time. The tasting menu moves through Mexico's diversity of ingredients and techniques, from the central markets of the capital to the coasts and the jungle.

What to know

• —Two Michelin stars
• —Over a decade in The World's 50 Best Restaurants
• —The mole madre, a mole aged and renewed continuously for years
• —Enrique Olvera is Mexico's most internationally recognised chef
• —Located in Polanco, Mexico City's premier luxury district