Kitchen Table at Hotel Esencia

Kitchen Table is the jungle restaurant at Hotel Esencia — the three-MICHELIN-Key property on Xpu-Ha bay between Tulum and Playa del Carmen, and the only hotel on the Mayan Riviera to hold the highest MICHELIN Keys rating in 2025. The restaurant itself is a wood-burning open-air kitchen set in a jungle clearing — the grill is the centrepiece, the menu is short, the wine list is serious, and the experience is the most refined version of live-fire cooking that exists on the Mexican coast.

For honeymoons and significant anniversaries that pair a few nights at Tulum hotels with a few nights at Esencia, the Kitchen Table dinner is the meal of the week. Book through the hotel — non-guests can reserve but Esencia guests have priority.

The most refined live-fire kitchen on the coast.