Located in Mexico City, Pujol is a fine dining restaurant owned by chef Enrique Olvera.
Originally a midcentury home in the Polanco neighbourhood, architectural firm JSa had remodelled the house into a minimalistic, clean and serene space that features a taco bar, dining rooms, private rooms, wooden furniture, terrazzo flooring, courtyards, terraces, and more.
“We wanted to preserve the essence of the house as a typical dwelling example of the Polanco neighborhood, with a four-deck roof and a garden that surrounds and protects it from the street,” said JSa. “In such way, potentializing local labor, workforce, materials and processes.”
“The guiding concept was to articulate a series of different spaces in a journey through different conditions of light, scale, privacy, visual and spatial integration and interior-exterior interaction,” explained JSa.
“We found opportunities in the pre-existences, adapted them and integrated them by enlarging light inputs, eliminating physical barriers that isolated spaces from each other, and removing false ceilings to reinforce the horizontal character of the project, increasing height in some parts and lowering it in others. All of these actions were made with the intention to provide a round experience with a certain level of intimacy and neighborhood scale.”
“A continuous indoors-outdoors relationship takes place and makes the customer interact with the outside in most of the spaces, either towards the gardens or towards the orchards. In addition, each space has different furniture arrangements to reinforce these experiences.”
With the menu including dishes such as chayote squash, spiny lobster pico, ceviche, octopus, chintextle, pickled carrot, gaznate, striped sea bass, hoja santa, tomato marmalade and more, patrons will be able to reserve a ten-course taco bar menu and also a tasting menu of seven courses served family-style with the choices of either corn or sea.
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