Eight Mexico City restaurant interiors good enough to eat
From sushi, Singaporean food, and, of course, tacos, restaurants in Mexico City have it all. For this week's lookbook, we dive into restaurant interiors in the city that utilise formal innovations and materials to showcase its world-class cuisine.
With the city's art week just having passed, Mexico City art and design are front and centre.
The eight restaurants below, opened in the last four years, showcase not only the beauty but the rigour of design in the city around something taken very seriously – food.
But it's not all tacos and terracotta; these restaurants vary in materials, styles and location, showing the breadth of style in the metropolis.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring global wine bars, shoji screens, and home saunas.
Local studio Locus designed this Singaporean food restaurant to fit into a concrete-framed space at the base of a mid-rise building.
Remarkably, the studio managed to use 50 per cent recycled materials for the interior, which features built-in wood elements as well as screened-in dining spaces.
This taco restaurant in the city's Roma Norte neighbourhood was decked out by local studio RA! in thousands of tile shards – a homage to the chef Alexis Ayala's time spent in Barcelona.
The compact space is centred by an open kitchen hemmed in by a steel-topped bar and a green, ribbed material, with the scheme inverted to shroud the venting elements above.
Find out more about Los Alexis ›
This fast-casual restaurant is devoted almost entirely to the Milanese dish and features overlays of green metal and mesh throughout – from the sides of the bar to the extensive shelving.
Modernist-style tubular chairs with beige and olive leather reflect the colour scheme of the space, with mirrors lining the walls to create visual expansion.
Find out more about Órale Milanga ›
Ninyas by Ignacio Urquiza and Ana Paula de Alba
The design scheme for this restaurant fuses its two main offerings, steak and sake, mixing Japanese and Mexican sensibilities.
To find a commonality, the designers relied heavily on stainless steel. Wooden stools were given stainless-steel footrests, and an earthy red floor provides contrast.
Two gabled volumes covered in polycarbonate panels on an infill lot create soft light for this recently opened Mediterranean restaurant in the city.
The studio kept the main dining space open and lined it with cinder block and brickwork that showcases various construction techniques.
Find out more about Plumbago ›
The design in this tall-ceilinged space was implemented to reflect the cuisine, traditional and communal.
Located in the historic core of the city, Savvia features a massive wood-topped communal table with a circular chandelier above, with the kitchen elevated to the second floor to create more space for diners.
Oku Pedregal by Michan Architecture and Escala Arquitectos
One of two Oku sushi restaurants in this city, this most-recent outpost in the Jardines de Pedregal neighbourhood features teardrop-shaped dining areas partially suspended from the ceiling.
The restaurant's material palette is light, featuring pine-clad surfaces, pigmented stucco and GFRC panelling.
Find out more about Oku Pedregal ›
This moody Polanco bar sells tapas and drinks in a compact, 65-square-metre space with heavily textured walls and concrete pendant lamps.
The space is centred on a massive concrete bar created in the shape of an inverted pyramid, reminiscent of Aztec architecture.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring global wine bars, shoji screens, and home saunas.
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