Pujol

Pujol is one of the restaurants that helped put contemporary Mexican cooking on the international map, taking traditional Mexican ingredients and techniques and approaching them in a much more contemporary way. You need to reserve well in advance.

It is also where we had my birthday lunch.

Noah has been wanting to go to Pujol forever, mostly because he has been dying to try the famous mole madre, the restaurant's ever-evolving mole that has been continuously refreshed over the years.

And it did not disappoint.

But that is another story.

A footnote from that same lunch: it is also where the Xinú obsession started. I went into the ladies' room during the meal and became completely obsessed with the hand soap. It smelled so good that I actually stopped to look at the bottle to see what it was.

A full dispatch on Pujol and the mole madre is still to come.