A Mixtec eatery in Oaxaca city wins Best Restaurant of the Year

A Oaxacan edifice with a absorption connected Mixtec cuisine is the apical edifice successful Mexico, according to the Mexico Gastronomic Guide.

This year, Restaurant of the Year went to Tierra del Sol, a edifice serving accepted nutrient nether the absorption of cook Olga Cabrera successful the superior of the confederate authorities of Oaxaca.

Chef Olga Cabrera of Tierra del Sol. (Tierra del Sol)

The 2026 Special Awards admit outstanding chefs, cooks and manufacture figures for their talent, vocation achievements and contributions to Mexico’s culinary scene.

“This goes retired to Oaxaca, to the Mixteca region, and to Mexico,” Cabrera said aft receiving the award, adding that the cuisine served astatine Tierra del Sol is not calved solely successful the restaurant, but successful the onshore and successful the corporate effort to attraction for autochthonal seeds.

When handing implicit the award, judges said the edifice not lone offers a culinary experience, but besides upholds an ethical and taste imaginativeness of gastronomy. They recognized that Tierra del Sol has importantly contributed to the research, promotion and acquisition of Oaxacan gastronomy.

Tierra del Sol’s cuisine focuses connected accepted Oaxacan flavors and techniques, with peculiar accent connected the Mixteca region: its land, autochthonal corn, atole and different dishes linked to household and assemblage memory.

The judges praised Cabrera’s enactment blending contented and innovation, and her nonstop collaboration with section producers, particularly women guardians of corn, cacao and different crops.

Cabrera’s edifice besides appears arsenic a caller introduction successful the Michelin Guide Mexico 2025, complementing the designation from the Mexico Gastronomic Guide and strengthening its presumption successful the nationalist scene.

Overall, successful the 12th variation of the Mexico Gastronomic Guide, 26 peculiar awards were fixed out. Some of these include:

• Best chef: Ángel Vázquez, laminitis of Intro and Augurio (Puebla)
• Gastronomic improvement of the year: Taquería La Once Mil (Mexico City)
• Best dessert menu: Bruna (Guadalajara)
• Bakers of the year: Julio and Ariana González of Buñuelo (Mexico City)
• Best gastronomic experience: La Aldea Avándaro (Valle de Bravo, México state)
• Best Mexican edifice abroad: Kol (London)
• Best gastronomic edifice of the year: Nizuc (Cancún)
• Best vino bar: Brutal (Mexico City)

With reports from Culinaria Mexicana and Diario Marca