Wine Spectator Award-Winning Restaurants in Mexico

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Todos Santos, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Acre

San José del Cabo, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Acre holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and sits among the more serious dining options in San José del Cabo's growing restaurant scene. The kitchen works across American and Southern American registers with a wine program of 505 selections across roughly 2,000 bottles. At $$$ for food and $$ for wine, it occupies a mid-to-upper price tier with a $15 corkage fee for those bringing their own bottle.

Al Andalus

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Al Andalus sits on the first floor of a building along Insurgentes Sur in San Ángel, one of Mexico City's most architecturally consistent southern neighbourhoods. The address places it within a district that draws a loyal local crowd rather than a tourist circuit, suggesting a kitchen that earns return visits on the strength of what arrives at the table rather than its postcode alone.

Alfredo Di Roma Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Grand Award

Inside the Presidente Intercontinental in Polanco, Alfredo Di Roma Mexico brings a European dining tradition to one of Mexico City's most established hotel corridors. The wine program spans 2,110 selections across 40,000 bottles, with coverage running from Champagne and Bordeaux through to Mexican and South American labels. Lunch and dinner service, with cuisine priced at the accessible end of Polanco's restaurant spectrum.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Alfredo Di Roma Trattoria

Cozumel, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Sitting along the coastal road south of Cozumel's centro, Alfredo Di Roma Trattoria brings Italian trattoria tradition to a Caribbean island better known for its reef diving than its pasta. The address places it near Chankanaab, away from the cruise-ship density of the waterfront, making it a quieter choice among an island dining scene that otherwise skews toward grilled seafood and Yucatecan flavors.

Animalón

Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Animalón holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) and sits at the summit of Valle de Guadalupe's fine-dining tier, where open-air architecture, a 690-bottle wine list weighted toward Baja producers, and Chef Oscar Torres's seasonal regional cooking define what a serious meal in the valley looks like. It is the benchmark against which other $$$$ tables in the valley are measured.

Arbol

San José del Cabo, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Arbol at Las Ventanas al Paraíso brings Indian cuisine to the Baja peninsula at a level that earned consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The wine program runs to 800 selections and 18,000 bottles in inventory, with particular depth in French and Italian producers. Dinner pricing sits in the $$$ range for food, with bottles skewing toward the $100-plus tier.

Ardea Steakhouse

Los Cabos, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Set along the Diamante corridor in Cabo San Lucas, Ardea Steakhouse sits within one of Los Cabos' most address-conscious resort zones, where the Pacific meets Baja's high-end hospitality belt. The kitchen works at the intersection of global steakhouse technique and Baja California's own agricultural and coastal larder, placing it in a distinct tier among the peninsula's serious dining options.

Au Pied de Cochon

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

For more than two decades, Au Pied de Cochon has anchored French cuisine in Polanco, Mexico City's most formally appointed dining neighbourhood. The kitchen works within a classic Parisian brasserie tradition that has remained consistent while the city's restaurant scene has shifted dramatically around it. It sits at the upper end of Polanco's price tier, in the company of addresses that treat the dining room as destination rather than backdrop.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Autor

Tulum, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Autor holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and operates within Tulkal, a hospitality compound along the Cancún-Tulum corridor. Chef Alan Carias leads a contemporary Mexican dinner menu priced at $$$, backed by a 1,400-bottle wine inventory directed by Aaron Alvarez, with notable depth in Mexican and Californian labels. Corkage is set at $30 for outside bottles.

Also recognized by AAA

Bar Esquina

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Bar Esquina sits on Av. del Pescador in El Medano Ejidal, Cabo San Lucas, in one of the strip's most trafficked beach-adjacent corridors. The bar format places it among Cabo's more casual social anchors, where the emphasis is on drinks and the scene rather than destination dining. Visitors looking for a laid-back entry point to the Cabo waterfront tend to land here first.

Bisou

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Bisou sits in Playa del Carmen’s hotel-corridor dining zone, where Riviera Maya restaurants often balance resort polish with access to Caribbean seafood, Yucatán produce, and Mexico’s wider pantry. With no public awards, chef, price, or menu format listed, the smart read is contextual: treat it as part of Solidaridad’s broader dining circuit rather than a credential-driven destination.

Bocados Steak House

Cancún, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Bocados Steak House sits in Cancún’s resort corridor, where steakhouse dining is less about old-school formality than about sourcing, grilling technique, and the expectations of travelers moving between beach clubs, hotel restaurants, and destination dinners. Its appeal is clearest for diners who want a meat-led meal within the northern hotel zone rather than a long transfer into the city center.

Brava Steakhouse

Saltillo, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Brava Steakhouse makes a direct case for Saltillo's place in the northern Mexico dining conversation, anchoring its menu in Coahuila beef country and pairing it with a wine list built almost entirely around Mexican producers from the same region. The room is deliberately warm and unfussy, pitched somewhere between neighbourhood gathering place and considered dining destination. For anyone building an itinerary around Mexico's emerging wine and cattle corridor, Brava is a practical and honest starting point.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Bu’ul

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Bu'ul holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and sits on the Cancún–Tulum federal highway at Punta Maroma, well outside the Quinta Avenida corridor. The kitchen works within a Mexican framework at the summit price tier, while sommelier Michael Gonzalez runs a wine program notable for vertical collections that have drawn attention from seasoned wine travelers.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Café des Artistes

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A fixture in Puerto Vallarta's Centro dining scene, Café des Artistes earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2022, signalling a wine program serious enough to stand alongside the food. The address on Calle Guadalupe Sánchez places it at the heart of the old town, where the Pacific coast's ingredient supply chain — fresh catch, tropical produce, highland herbs — informs what arrives at the table.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Café des Artistes Los Cabos

Los Cabos, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Café des Artistes Los Cabos occupies a prime address in San José del Cabo's hotel corridor, bringing the celebrated Artistes brand — established in Puerto Vallarta's fine dining scene — to Baja California Sur. The setting leans into the coastal resort register while maintaining the culinary ambition the name carries across Mexico's premium dining tier.

Chapulín

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Chapulín occupies a prominent position among Polanco's Mexican dining rooms, drawing guests with technique-driven cooking rooted in Mexican culinary history. Located on Campos Elíseos 218, the restaurant has built a following on the strength of its kitchen's relationship to tradition and flavour rather than novelty. For a neighbourhood defined by international competition, Chapulín's sustained relevance speaks to consistent execution over time.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Cilento

Costa Mujeres, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Cilento sits inside Cancún’s broader question of sourcing: how a resort city balances visitor demand with the ingredients of the Yucatán, the Caribbean coast, and mainland Mexico. Use it as a reference point for a more grounded Cancún meal, then compare the city’s casual taquerías, market cooking, and higher-spend Mexican rooms before deciding where it fits in the trip.

Don Artemio

Saltillo, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Don Artemio sits on Boulevard Venustiano Carranza in Saltillo's Valle Hermoso district, operating at the intersection of northern Mexican culinary tradition and ingredient-conscious modern cooking. In a city better known as an industrial hub than a dining destination, it represents the kind of address that rewards visitors who look past Coahuila's surface. See how it fits into Saltillo's broader restaurant scene in our full guide.

Don Manuel's

Los Cabos, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Don Manuel's transforms traditional Mexican street food into sophisticated fine dining artistry at Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal, where internationally prominent chefs present innovative taco tasting menus and contemporary Mexican cuisine against dramatic Pacific Ocean views.

Also recognized by Forbes

DŪM

Todos Santos, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

DŪM brings a Franco-Mexican kitchen to the colonial streets of Todos Santos, pairing a Michelin Plate-recognised dinner format with a wine list of 315 selections. Priced at $$ for a two-course dinner and backed by a $35 corkage policy, it occupies a thoughtful mid-register in a town whose dining scene is quietly outperforming its size. The French-trained kitchen and Baja California Sur setting produce a combination you won't find further north on the peninsula.

El Farallon

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

El Farallon occupies a dramatic clifftop position in El Pedregal, Cabo San Lucas, where the Sea of Cortez functions as both backdrop and pantry. Recognised in the La Liste Top Restaurants 2026 ranking with 75 points, it sits in the upper tier of Cabo's premium dining circuit alongside Cocina de Autor, Comal, and Manta. The setting alone separates it from the town's marina-facing competition.

Also recognized by La Liste

Fonda San Francisco

San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Fonda San Francisco sits in San Francisco's accessible Mexican dining tier, earning back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 under chef Damian Duenas and wine director Stephanie Castaneda. The room draws from the fonda tradition — casual, ingredient-focused Mexican cooking — while a 220-selection wine list with 1,300-bottle inventory signals ambitions beyond the price point.

Kuuk

Mérida, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Kuuk restaurant Merida has operated in the Itzimná neighbourhood since 2012, placing contemporary Mexican technique alongside one of the city's most serious wine programs — 420 selections, 1,460 bottles in inventory, and a corkage fee that signals a list built for use rather than display. Ranked #397 in Opinionated About Dining's North America list for 2025, it occupies a position well above most of Merida's dining scene.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

La Mantequeria

Guadalajara, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A compact wine bar and retail shop inside Andares, one of Mexico's most upscale shopping destinations in Guadalajara's Puerta de Hierro district, La Mantequería offers a deliberately low-key counterpoint to the area's grander dining options. Bottles line the walls alongside a curated selection of deli provisions, making it as useful for stocking a well-appointed kitchen as for a measured glass of wine mid-afternoon.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

LaFrida Restaurant

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

LaFrida Restaurant occupies a dramatic perch inside Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach, where Pacific-facing dining has long defined the upper tier of Cabo San Lucas hospitality. Set within one of Los Cabos' most architecturally committed resort properties, it positions itself in the same conversation as Cocina de Autor and El Farallon — restaurants where the setting does as much editorial work as the plate. For visitors mapping Mexico's serious dining circuit, it warrants a place in the itinerary.

Le Chique

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Le Chique holds a Michelin star and an AAA 5 Diamond rating in Puerto Morelos, placing it among Mexico's most credentialed contemporary dining rooms outside the capital. Chef Jhonatan Gómez Luna's tasting format reframes Mexican ingredients through a technical lens, with a wine program spanning California, France, and domestic Mexican producers across roughly 200 selections.

Also recognized by AAA, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, The Best Chef

Lilōu

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Lilōu occupies a quiet address on Campos Elíseos in Polanco, one of Mexico City's most considered dining corridors. The restaurant sits in a neighbourhood where sourcing credentials and culinary precision define the competitive conversation, placing it alongside a cohort of Mexico City tables where ingredient provenance shapes the menu before technique does. Reservations and current hours are best confirmed directly with the venue.

LÍMO Heritage Kitchen at Suelo Sur

San José del Cabo, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Awarded a Michelin Plate in 2025, LÍMO Heritage Kitchen at Suelo Sur brings the deep traditions of Mexican street food into a composed restaurant format in the historic centro of San José del Cabo. It occupies a distinct position in the Los Cabos dining scene: serious about technique and provenance without distancing itself from the taco-and-tostada vernacular that anchors Mexican cooking.

Manta

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Manta brings Enrique Olvera's coastal Mexican vision to Cabo San Lucas, with open-flame technique at its center and a Michelin Plate to its name. The restaurant occupies the upper tier of Cabo's fine dining scene alongside Cocina de Autor and Comal, combining serious culinary credentials with a setting shaped by the Pacific. A 375-bottle wine list and 4,000-inventory cellar make this one of the more considered wine programs on the Baja peninsula.

Also recognized by La Liste

María Dolores

Isla Mujeres, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

María Dolores at Atelier Playa Mujeres holds a Michelin Plate for 2025, placing it among the Riviera Maya's most recognised fine-dining addresses. Chef Edgar Núñez builds a seasonal menu around Mexican agricultural traditions, with ceviches, masa-forward dishes, and a wine list spanning 390 selections across Mexico, California, France, and Italy. Dinner is accompanied by live violin.

Also recognized by Forbes, World Culinary Awards

Mezcal

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

The signature restaurant of Montage Los Cabos, Mezcal holds a 2025 Michelin Plate and pairs Mexican cuisine with one of the peninsula's more serious wine programs: 450 selections, 4,000-bottle inventory, and a dedicated sommelier team. The wine list skews toward Mexico, California, and Champagne, while the food price point sits at $$$. Reservations are advisable for dinner.

Also recognized by Forbes

One Pound Terraza

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

One Pound Terraza occupies a rooftop position in Lomas de Chapultepec, one of Mexico City's most established residential enclaves, bringing an open-air format to a neighbourhood better known for private clubs and old-money discretion. The address places it a deliberate distance from the Polanco dining circuit, which shapes both its booking patterns and its clientele.

Plonk

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised Mexican restaurant on Iztaccihuatl in Hipódromo, Plonk sits in the accessible mid-range tier of a city where fine dining has never been more competitive.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Prime Steak Club

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Prime Steak Club sits directly on Paseo de la Reforma, steps from the Ángel de la Independencia, as part of the Sonora Grill Group's party-format steakhouse portfolio. The format trades white-tablecloth formality for high-energy dining with theatrical lighting and a crowd that arrives to celebrate. It occupies a distinct tier among Mexico City's meat-focused restaurants — louder, more festive, and built around a different kind of night out than the city's tasting-menu circuit.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Raíz

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Bib Gourmand winner for 2024 and 2025, Raíz operates in Polanco at a price point well below its neighbourhood peers, pairing contemporary Mexican cooking with a 600-bottle wine list that earned a White Star from Star Wine List. The sommelier-forward team and focus on Mexican and French labels make the wine program an unusually serious proposition for a room at this price.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Romina

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Romina occupies a considered position within Polanco's dense restaurant corridor, where the neighbourhood's appetite for European-inflected dining meets a more restrained, wine-focused sensibility. Positioned against the area's heavier-hitting tasting-menu addresses, it offers an alternative register: one where the cellar and the kitchen carry equal weight. For visitors mapping Mexico City's upper-mid dining tier, it merits attention alongside peers like Rosetta and Em.

Somma Wine Bar

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

On one of Cuauhtémoc's most restaurant-dense streets, Somma operates as a focused wine bar occupying a compact, intimate space at Río Lerma 159. The format prioritizes wine curation over scale, making it a deliberate counterpoint to the neighbourhood's broader food-and-drink scene. For visitors tracing Mexico City's emerging wine culture, it sits on a short list of places worth planning around.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Sud 777

Mexico City, Mexico

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.

Also recognized by La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, The Best Chef, We're Smart World

Tuna Blanca

Punta de Mita, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Tuna Blanca sits on the Corral del Risco shoreline in Punta de Mita, serving Mexican cuisine at dinner with a wine list of 180 selections and 1,000 bottles in inventory. Priced in the $40–$65 range for a two-course meal, it operates under Chef Ramón Álvarez and Wine Director Elias Mejia, with owner Thierry Blouet connecting the kitchen to a broader tradition of coastal Mexican dining.

Vigneron

Mexico City, Mexico

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

A Michelin Bib Gourmand wine bar on Jalapa in Roma Norte, Vigneron pairs a French-Mexican kitchen under Chef Itzel Melendez with a 650-bottle cellar that leans heavily on France, Spain, and Italy. With three sommeliers on the floor and a wine list recognised by Star Wine List, it occupies a distinct tier among the neighbourhood's wine-focused rooms.

Also recognized by Star Wine List