Noma Mexico
Photos from dinner at the Noma popup in Tulum, Mexico on April 20, 2017.
Chef Redzepi used the diversity of Mexican ingredients to create a distinctly New-Nordic meal in the jungles of Quintana Roo. The menu was focused, lively, and full of new flavors. The octopus in sikil pak, my favorite dish of the night, had tremendous depth of flavor imparted by a new cooking technique: wrapping the octopus in corn husks and enveloping them in a masa-salt crust before baking in the earth.
This was without a doubt, my best Noma meal yet.

Dinner at Noma, Mexico

2009 Blanc de blanc, Louis Roederer, Reims - Champagne

Pi?uela and tamarind

Pi?uela and tamarind, up close

Queen Clam from the Sea of Cortéz

Queen Clam from the Sea of Cortéz

Salute with dried tomatoes and chapulines (grasshoppers)

Cold masa broth with lime and all the flowers of the moment

Mead, Cervecería Escollo - Querétaro

Young coconut and caviar

2014 Presencia Casual, Luis-Antoine Luyt - Chile

Tropical fruit and chile de árbol

Table at Noma, Mexico

Local fruit

Banana ceviche, kelp oil

Giant kelp and mussel michelada

Chaya taco with fresh Bahia Falsa oyster

Chaya taco with fresh Bahia Falsa oyster, up close

Amber ale, Cebia - Merida

Whole grilled pumpkin

A night under the stars

Tostada with escamoles (ant larvae)

Tostada with escamoles (ant larvae), up close

Golden Sour, Wendlandt - Ensenada

Just-cooked octopus in masa salt crust

Just-cooked octopus with "dzikilpak"

Just-cooked octopus with "dzikilpak," up close

Tortillas from Yaxunah

More tortillas

Epazote, green tomato, and mezcal

Chef René Redzepi

Lechón (suckling pig)

Cerdo Pelón and fresh milled corn from Yaxunah

Cerdo Pelón and fresh milled corn from Yaxunah, up close

Rosio's mole with dried scallops and grilled hoja santa

Rosio's mole

2016 La flama roja, Bichi - Tecate

Dessert of grilled avocado and mamey seeds

Chocolate from native Jaguar cacao and Mixe chile

Chocolate from native Jaguar cacao and Mixe chile, up close

Tortillas from Yaxunah

The outdoor dining room

Tortillas

Prepping young coconuts

After dinner drinks

Mezcal
