A pre-hispanic restaurant in Mexico has been named one of the world´s best
Source：El Financiero
From：Taiwan Trade Center Mexico
Update Time：2020/09/16
A Tabasco restaurant specializing in traditional pre-Hispanic cuisine has made it onto the list of the 20 Best Restaurants in the World, compiled by Travel + Leisure and Food and Wine.
Cocina Chontal — a small house with brick floors and wooden tables where dishes are cooked on an outdoor comal and dogs hang out waiting for scraps — might seem an unlikely place to find one of the world’s best foodie haunts.
But the restaurant, located near the ancient Mayan archaeological zone in the jungle of San Isidro de Comalcalco, has won accolades with international tourists and locals alike due to its commitment to preserving knowledge of pre-Hispanic Tabasco cuisine, knowledge on the verge of being lost.
Nevertheless, chef Nelly Córdova Murillo said ending up on the travel magazine’s list was a total surprise.
“It’s their culture, their traditions, their customs, their men and women, their products, and their artisans,” she said. “Cocina Chontal is that. It’s Tabasco in a small place.”
In her Travel + Leisure article discussing the winning restaurants, culinary critic Besha Rodell praised not only Cocina Chontal’s cuisine, citing in particular the mole poblano with turkey, the scarlet shrimp, and the tortilla Chontal, but also its golden, sunlight-bathed ambience.
Source：https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/