Ku'uk. Eating Modernist in Merida

A number of our friends said that we had to eat at Ku'uk, a restaurant in Merida with a "Modernist" take on Yucateco food.

So we did.

Here is what we had:

Chicxulub: Ginko, Pollen, Nopal, Smelt, Seaweed Fossil on a meteorite. The meteorite is, of course, meant to represent the Chicxulub impact that hit the Yucatan 66 million years ago - some say causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. 

 Here is another view. You can see the fish as well as the grain of the polished meteorite.

K'uum To'obil Chay: Pumpkin seed tamale, chaya leaf, tomato sauce, avocado, fennel

"Cloudy" Mayan Jungle: Green salad with butter, sour orange, chili ashes, cashews. It is a little hard to see, but there is smoke inside the bell jar.

 A view without the glass. All the food was very good looking!

 Tomato: In a veil and distilled pibinal corn potato

 Mayan Octopus: Black chili ashes, "skin", olives and freeze dried tomato, burnt habanero, grilled onion foam. The octopus was so black it was hard to photograph.

 Sacred Natural Well: White fish in "natural well" clarified chlorophyll juice, white cucumber, citrics, clovers, and offering to the Mayan gods (gilded pea). Before the broth

 Sacred Natural Well: White fish in "natural well" clarified chlorophyll juice, white cucumber, citrics, clovers, and offering to the Mayan gods (gilded pea). After the broth.

 Turkey "Marquesita": Yucatan Street Snack with anatto. Free range turkey and suckling pig chorizo, corn, fava bean mousse, charred leek, green salt

 Pib Bread: Underground Mayan style cooked with cochinita oils and anatto, orange leaf, sour orange butter and chaya.

 Castakan: Creole suckling pig with avocado, salipcon salad, beans, wormseed.

 Palate cleanser. Cold snack of seasonal fruits.

 Sweet Nopal: Freeze dried nopal leaf, peppermint and sourmilk ice cream, lemon and habanero flowers with nopal "soil"

 Honeycomb. Meliponin stingless bean honey biscuit, passion fruit and pollen cream, dehydrated mushroom impregnated with Dzidzilche honey, fiber, and soft rice with Balchee (mayan fermented honey)

 Cocoa Chip. Burnt tortilla ice cream and freeze dried Papantla'ss vanilla "flan" custard

Treats. Chocolates, Alfajores, Cookies, Empanadas with dulce de Leche.

It was a good meal. The wines we had were all Mexican with the exception of one from Argentina.

Go there if you get to Merida.