Overview
Restaurant Views: 5,359
Awards
- MICHELIN Guide
- OAD
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North American Restaurants 2026, 35
- The World’s50 Best
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World`s 50 Best Restaurants 2024, #7
Latin Americas's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, #12
- Elite Collection
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Elite Collection Top 100 2019, #78
- La Liste
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La Liste, #116
- Restaurant Ranking
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Restaurant Ranking 2024, #1109, PRO #17.33, USER #0.00
- Eatinerary's
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Eatinerary's Locals Short List
Chef
Jorge Vallejo
Cuisine
Mexican, Contemporary, Modern Mexican
Foodle Reviews
Simply amazing dinner yesterday at @rest_quintonil in Mexico City. Owned by the husband-and-wife team Chef Jorge Vallejo and dining room manager Alejandra Flores, this two-Michelin-starred restaurant, #3 on the World’s 50 Best list, serves a compelling tasting menu based on Mexican ingredients and traditional dishes executed with impeccable modern cooking techniques. A truly impressive meal not only for the food but the service and especially the wine service by sommelier... More
Simply amazing dinner yesterday at @rest_quintonil in Mexico City. Owned by the husband-and-wife team Chef Jorge Vallejo and dining room manager Alejandra Flores, this two-Michelin-starred restaurant, #3 on the World’s 50 Best list, serves a compelling tasting menu based on Mexican ingredients and traditional dishes executed with impeccable modern cooking techniques. A truly impressive meal not only for the food but the service and especially the wine service by sommelier Tomas Carreira. An inspiring meal made with flawless execution. Go to enjoy the art, expertise and professionalism of this dynamic team.
Menu on last slide. Picture of Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores in there too. Lovely, lovely people. ❤️ Less
Our Mexico @rest_quintonil ✨
- Rib eye, chichilo negro, huitlacoche -
- Cactus paddle sorbet -
- Coconut, plankton, physalis, caviar -
- Cornbread, vanilla, passion fruit, rompope -
As always an Foodtastic Experience by @jorgevallejo 🙏🥰
Our Mexico @rest_quintonil ✨
- Aged kampachi pescadilla -
- Plantain buñuelo with escamoles -
- Mussel tostada with mole de mar -
- Lime pickled tomatoes, jicama, fennel kimchi -
- Stone crab, pipian verde, makrut lime -
As always Foodtastic Experience by @jorgevallejo 🙏❤️
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📍 @rest_quintonil 🌟🌟
👨🍳 @jorgevallejo
#[instagram]️⃣ N.7 @theworlds50best
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🌰 tejate (Oaxacan beverage) with pataxte theobroma, mamey & dates
🌮 kampachi taco, fermented mushroom & almonds
🐛 fritter of ‘escamoles’ larvae & agave honey cream
🐚 mussels tart with seafood mole
🎃 butternut squash & tomato salad, rice horchata & pumpkin seeds
🌽 ‘pepian’ made from sunflower seeds, lime, basil, blue corn tostada &... More
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📍 @rest_quintonil 🌟🌟
👨🍳 @jorgevallejo
#[instagram]️⃣ N.7 @theworlds50best
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🌰 tejate (Oaxacan beverage) with pataxte theobroma, mamey & dates
🌮 kampachi taco, fermented mushroom & almonds
🐛 fritter of ‘escamoles’ larvae & agave honey cream
🐚 mussels tart with seafood mole
🎃 butternut squash & tomato salad, rice horchata & pumpkin seeds
🌽 ‘pepian’ made from sunflower seeds, lime, basil, blue corn tostada & zucchini
🐚 scallops ceviche with capers & lettuces
🐟 ‘sope’ of grilled tuna belly, chapulin grasshopper adobo & chicatana ants
🌵 snow of prickly pear cactus
🫔 pork tamal with corn cream
🐷 roasted pig with ‘manchamanteles’ mole, beets & apples
🥩 aged ribeye with huitlacoche garum & broccoli mole
🥥 coconut sorbet with plankton, passion fruit & caviar
🌽 corn bread with nixtamal rompope, vanilla & passion fruit
Tell me what it was like to eat at Quintonil?
Did you start with the chileatole de huitacloche? This corn fungus, grey in colour and earthy in flavour, with chillies and Mexican herbs? And have you tried the grilled pickled mussels tostada, with mole de mar? What a good idea. How did it taste? I want to know everything.
What did you think of the dish with very thin slices of butternut, bright yellow in colour, with a certain acidity and spiciness that contrasted with the creaminess and sweetness... More
Tell me what it was like to eat at Quintonil?
Did you start with the chileatole de huitacloche? This corn fungus, grey in colour and earthy in flavour, with chillies and Mexican herbs? And have you tried the grilled pickled mussels tostada, with mole de mar? What a good idea. How did it taste? I want to know everything.
What did you think of the dish with very thin slices of butternut, bright yellow in colour, with a certain acidity and spiciness that contrasted with the creaminess and sweetness of the horchata rice? It must be wonderful.
And the tuna with aguachile de brassicas? And the spider crab with blue corn tostadas? And the pibil duck tamal with young corn cream?
Oh, the food of Mexico! And Jorge Vallejo sure knows how to make us love it!
And what about all the insects?
The Chapulín (corn locust), the Jumil (shield bugs), the Cocopache (a type of cockroach) and the Chicatana ant? And the escamoles (ant larvae)? A feast, no?
Tell me about it! Is it really good?
And afterwards? Did you have the arroz a la tombada with sea urchin, lobster and chilhuacle rojo, those medium-hot chillies with a delicate, smoky flavour from Oaxaca? Lucky you!
And isn’t the mole chichilo negro mind-blowing? With perfectly cooked rib eye and a quenelle of pico de gallo.
Don’t tell me you finished with the cactus paddle sorbet, tangy and sweet!
I’m told that it’s hard not to be taken in by this country and this culture, so fertile, so rich and so welcoming, after eating at Quintonil.
Tell me all about it, is it really like that? I want to know.
Well... words fail me, you just have to go and see for yourself.
I definitely want to return. Less
Mexican perfection @rest_quintonil
- Grilled tuna collar, sake lees, coconut foam, arroz -
- Entomophagy festival -
- Cactus paddle sorbet -
- Melipona honey, physalis, crème fraiche ice cream -
Foodtastic experience by @jorgevallejo ✨
Mexican perfection @rest_quintonil
- Chileatole, huitlacoche, mexican herbs, chillies -
- Butternut squash, tomato salad, rice horchata -
- Blue fin tuna, wasabi ice cream, watermelon radish -
- Spider crab, sunflower seeds, makrut lime, blue corn -
- Mussels, mole de mar, tostada, charred onion -
- Red lobster, orange gastric, cauliflower, plankton -
Foodtastic experience by @jorgevallejo ✨
Two years ago, in January 2016, I have been to Quintonil. At this point I thought it was at the beginning too much tomatillos and then too much mole.
However, Jorge Vallejo, the Chef/Owner really raised his game. The Winter Menu has no resemblance to his former cooking.
The flavours are well combined but not too strong. His techniques is so much more refined, he loves to use Nixtamalization which has certainly great health benefits but creates a structure which is not to everybody's liking.
A... More
Two years ago, in January 2016, I have been to Quintonil. At this point I thought it was at the beginning too much tomatillos and then too much mole.
However, Jorge Vallejo, the Chef/Owner really raised his game. The Winter Menu has no resemblance to his former cooking.
The flavours are well combined but not too strong. His techniques is so much more refined, he loves to use Nixtamalization which has certainly great health benefits but creates a structure which is not to everybody's liking.
A wonderful dinner with the most generous host.
Mamey, crumble from clove
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Quintonil, Mexico City (Nov 2016)
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Address
Av. Isaac Newton 55, Polanco, Polanco IV Secc, Ciudad de México
Hours
Tuesday: 13:00 - 00:00
Wednesday: 13:00 - 00:00
Thursday: 13:00 - 00:00
Friday: 13:00 - 00:00
Saturday: 13:00 - 00:00
Sunday: Closed
Phone
+525552800254
Price Range
Based on country average
$$$$ (MX$1,000+)
