ARCA Tulum

ARCA is the Hartwood for the next generation — opened 2015 by José Luis Hinostroza, who came out of Noma in Copenhagen and brought the live-fire-and-local-sourcing discipline to a palapa dining room a few hundred metres up the road from the original. The menu rewrites itself constantly based on what the small network of farmers and fishermen are sending, the sharing-plate format means you taste a dozen things in an evening, and the kitchen ranked World's 50 Best at number sixty-seven in 2025 and held its MICHELIN Guide recognition into 2026.

For clients who have already done Hartwood and want the next chapter of Tulum dining, this is the dinner. The cocktail programme is also serious — ARCA placed at seventy-seven on 50 Best Bars 2025. Reservations open thirty days ahead.

The next-generation Tulum kitchen.