Huniik - Chuminopolis

One of the most favorite restaurants in the world what a wonderful wonderful experience we enjoyed. The entire dinner, the open kitchen where you have a conversation with the chef de locale, for our strange vegetables, fruit and peppers, everything is explained to you with a lot of love and dedication. Perfect, I think this is more than worthy of a Michelin star Food: 5

Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Over rated! Over priced! Mostly vegetarian! Would NOT recommend to anyone! Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Food: 3 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4

I was becoming a little cynical about tasting menus, where form and technique often leave flavor in the background. Huniik was a breath of fresh air in more ways than one. The tasting menu is inventive, playful (I had to discover one of my times buried in a pile of edible sand , but above all, delicious. The way they integrate ingredients and dishes from the region with the most sophisticated techniques is worthy of praise. On my particular menu, a small sope filled with beans and topped with cucumber (the names of the thousand and one variants of fried dough that we have in the country fail me was the best bite I have had in years, the mix of textures, Temperatures and flavors slowly unfolding on the palate would compete with the most perfect Nigiri. If anything, the two desserts on the menu seemed neat but somewhat bland, excellent palate cleansers of good manufacture but excessive simplicity. This is only until the real final dessert, a charred ataulfo mango with a layer of black recado and a coconut foam together with a delicate sorbet of the same ingredient were the perfect cherry on the cake, crowning an experience that was the perfect farewell to my visit to this beautiful city. If you can give yourself the opportunity to visit Huniik, take it. The cost is high for what I've seen in Mérida (Around 4,500 MXN for a tasting menu, three glasses of wine and tip , but comparable to what you would find in cities like Guadalajara, Monterrey, CDMX or Cancún. The most important thing is that in my humble opinion the quality-price ratio is favorable to the diner. I must not forget to thank the excellent attention of the service staff that perfectly complements the virtuosity of the kitchen. (If they are demanding they could complain about the absence of a Sommelier, but I didn't need it.