If Asia has Longrain and France has Bennelong, Mexican now has Mejico! Sydney’s newest fine diner is achingly cool, thanks to the efforts of its design dream team Project 82 and Koskela.
Let’s face it, we’re all suckers for a bit of unadulterated visual pleasure a.k.a window porn (in this case, sweetcorn porn). Mejico chefs grill n grind providing a window show for you and other Pitt street voyeurs – perfect if you’re one to start eating with your eyes.
Industrial fittings, open brickwork, sandstone, oversized woven pendant lights, a cracking soundtrack and Aztec red n’ black zig-zag designs will have you wondering how many of the 150 tequilas you may have had?
On your table you’ll find a mortar and pestle (please DO NOT pummel your dining partner). If there’s one thing to eat which tells the story of this place, it’s the guacamole. Your waiter appears with a tray of ingredients; one by one serrano chilies, lime juice, pistachios and two halves of a freshly cut avocado have their own little party in front of you.
Market to mouth has never been this fresh as dishes such as ceviche with Atlantic salmon on house baked tostadas, chorizo salsa (Rodrigues Farm) with golden plantain chips, smoked pork belly or silky ocean trout tacos, achiote chicken, portobello mushrooms and croquetas samba out of the kitchen.
Order agave-glaze caramel fudge if you dare but one things for sure, this ain’t no Mexican wave goodbye, it’s a spot you will boomerang back to.
Mejico
105 Pitt Street (just up from the corner of Hunter Street) Sydney 2000
