Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in Mexico City
Michelin stars in our Mexico City guide cover 10 restaurants and 12 stars citywide. Quintonil and Pujol hold two stars each in Polanco Chapultepec. Both are modern Mexican fine dining with exceptional wine lists and tasting menus. Enrique Olvera's Pujol centers on Mole Madre aged over 2500 days, with omakase as well.
One-star awards dated 2026 are where the range shows. Rosetta in Roma Norte is Mexican-Italian and sommelier-led. Sud 777 adds 2300 bottles to a plant-forward tasting menu. Máximo is French-influenced Mexican cooking with a sommelier. Em is Japanese-Mexican omakase. Masala y Maíz in Tabacalera joins Mexican, South Asian, and East African cooking with natural wine. Expendio de Maíz is a corn-led no-menu kitchen with a minimal wine program. Esquina Común pairs a Mexican-Peruvian tasting menu with natural wine.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Em
1 Michelin star
Em holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining North America ranking, operating out of a minimalist dining room on Tonalá in Roma Norte. Chef Lucho Martinez runs a seasonal omakase alongside an à la carte menu that draws on both Mexican and Japanese culinary frameworks. The kitchen opens five evenings a week, with service from Thursday through Monday.
Esquina Común
1 Michelin star
Esquina Común holds a Michelin star for two consecutive years at its Condesa address on Fernando Montes de Oca, where Guy Ravet frames Mexico City's taco, tostada, and street-food traditions inside a sit-down restaurant format. At a mid-range price point for starred dining in the capital, it occupies an accessible but serious tier in the city's growing recognition story.
Expendio de Maíz
1 Michelin star
Expendio de Maíz treats masa as Mexico City’s main event rather than a supporting act. Its small communal-table format, chef Jesús Salas Tornés’s corn-led cooking, Michelin recognition, and repeated Opinionated About Dining placements put it in the city’s serious casual tier, closer to a study of tortilla craft than a conventional restaurant script.
Gaba
1 Michelin star
Gaba sits on Avenida Mazatlán in Colonia Condesa, where chef Gabrielle LeGuerrier has built a Mexican kitchen that earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 after a Michelin Plate the year before. The cooking sits in the same price tier as Em but operates with a different register: more personal, more neighbourhood-rooted, and less format-driven than the city's tasting-menu circuit.
La Once Mil
1 Michelin star
La Once Mil operates in Lomas de Chapultepec, a residential neighbourhood in Miguel Hildalgo where taco specialists compete on ingredient quality and technique. The kitchen works from a sourcing-first model, building menus around daily market deliveries rather than signature dishes. The format sits closer to contemporary Mexican taco bars than street-cart tradition, with pricing and setting aligned to the area's mid-to-upper casual dining tier.
Masala y Maíz
1 Michelin star
Chefs Norma Listman and Saqib Keval fold suadero into samosas and pair Veracruz seafood with tamal colado, producing a cross-continental menu that reads as argument rather than novelty.
Máximo
1 Michelin star
Chef Eduardo García's innovative French-Mexican fusion defines Máximo Mexico City, where industrial Roma Norte elegance frames creative tasting menus featuring signature dishes like abalone tostada and caviar-crowned desserts in a dramatic white brick space with soaring ceilings.
Pujol
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Pujol is Mexico City's benchmark modern Mexican dining room, led by Enrique Olvera and carrying Michelin two-star recognition, La Liste 98 points for 2026, and a long run on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. The experience sits in the high-price tier and is better understood as a national culinary reference point than as a simple tasting-menu stop.
Quintonil
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Quintonil is one of Mexico City's defining modern Mexican dining rooms, with Jorge Vallejo's cooking placing native herbs, vegetables, masa, insects and local technique inside a contemporary tasting-menu format. Recognition includes Michelin two stars, Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, La Liste 96 points for 2026, and a 2026 Opinionated About Dining North America ranking at No. 35.
Rosetta
1 Michelin star
Rosetta places handmade pasta inside Mexico City’s contemporary Mexican conversation rather than treating it as imported Italian theatre. Elena Reygadas’s Roma Norte dining room carries Michelin recognition, La Liste scoring, OAD ranking, and World’s 50 Best history, but the stronger argument is on the plate: Italian technique used to rethink Mexican ingredients, seasonality, and plant-led cooking.
Sud 777
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Sud 777 operates from Jardines del Pedregal with a plant-forward Mexican kitchen that has earned a Michelin star and placed as high as #70 on the World's 50 Best list. Chef Edgar Núñez draws from an on-site vegetable garden to produce dishes that read simple on the plate but carry real technical depth. The wine list runs to 2,300 bottles with strong representation from Mexico, Italy, and California.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in Mexico City
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants does the guide count?
- Our guide counts 10 Michelin-starred restaurants and 12 stars citywide. Quintonil and Pujol hold two stars each in Polanco Chapultepec, both modern Mexican fine dining with exceptional wine lists and tasting menus. The 2026 one-star awards named on this list are Rosetta, Sud 777, Máximo, Em, Masala y Maíz, Expendio de Maíz, Esquina Común, and Gaba.
- Which starred restaurants have serious wine programs?
- Quintonil and Pujol have exceptional, extensive lists, and Quintonil is sommelier-led. Sud 777 has 2300 bottles and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Rosetta and Máximo are sommelier-led. Esquina Común and Masala y Maíz are natural-wine lists. Expendio de Maíz keeps a minimal wine program. Gaba has craft cocktails, on small plates.
- What dining formats appear among the starred restaurants?
- Tasting menus are the format at Quintonil, Pujol, Rosetta, Sud 777, Máximo, Em, and Esquina Común. Pujol and Em also offer omakase. Masala y Maíz and Gaba work as small plates and a la carte. Expendio de Maíz sends sequential corn dishes, including tacos, sopes, and huaraches, up to 20 varieties.
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