Itanoní

The food is good and delicious but 🚨$291.00 Mexican pesos the price a jug of lemon water with mint!! Don't be abusive. ‼️‼️‼️

Worth the hype, a gorgeous interior and deserving of the Michelin. A bit pricey and the chicharron was too fatty, but definitely should make your list.

Excellent restaurant serving traditional Oaxacan food. Known for their use of different & preparations of corn. I had a classic memelita with queso de Chiapas (kinda funky & good strong flavor) as well as a quesadilla with pork fat & epazote. Both delicious. Cash only. Recommended!

Fantastic food. The restaurant is listed in the Michelin list of best restaurants in Oaxaca. The owner or staff will describe the dish and its origins. Excellent choice for breakfast lunch or dinner.

I loved it! We ordered a tamal de frijoles (best tamal I ever had and I’m Mexican). The tételas were also delicious. Everything was very tasty

I went for breakfast early in the morning when they’re not busy, and the service was friendly and fast. The outdoor space is lovely but the seat by the open kitchen gives you a close view of the making process which is very cool. I enjoyed their specialty tetelas and the Oaxaca specialty memelitas. Also try their cacao drinks!

It's a bit far away from downtown but it's worth a walk or a short taxi trip. They have nice memelitas, tetelas and tostadas. All cooked in the traditional way. Prices are above average. Drinks are quite expensive (beer and sodas)

Excellent local traditional food. Friendly service. Try the tetela de hongos. Sit near the oven in front to watch your food being made

POZOLE was the worst I have ever eaten. I love pozole and order it whenever I see it on a menu. The caldo, or broth in this pozole had no flavor; it was like eating hot water. Really bad, sad pozole. Lime, onions, salsa did not help it.

I can't stop thinking about this place. A beautiful restaurant facing outdoors, with lots of natural light and as authentic as it gets. It's casual, with tortillas being made right in front of you. The decor is colorful and the food delicious. The mamelas and tetelas are made by hand in full view, and the masa is incredibly fresh. They were happy to let me sit as long as I wanted, and there is wifi. The champurrado (a traditional Mexican chocolate drink made with corn flour) tasted like I remembered it when I made my very first trip to Mexico. I craved it every day, and went back three times for it. The tamales were amazing as well. If I go back to Oaxaca I will definitely go out of my way to come here.

Tasted nothing special about the corn and the interior of my tamal was frozen solid. The second time around, the tamal was tepid and the pork was half fat. The Huevos Espirituoso had absolutely no seasoning whatsoever and the tortilla it sat on was not freshly made. Prices were high by local standards. Champurrado was good but tascalate way too sweet.

If you want to try traditional Oaxaca food please go there . I think it's most delicious and tasty place in traditional way in Oaxaca

What a fantastic place! A restaurant based entirely around Mexican and indigenous corn (maiz criollo) dishes is my personal dream come true. Obviously such a menu has lots of vegetarian options, but there is plenty for meat eaters as well. Everything we had here was handmade and extremely fresh, in a beautiful setting, and with lovely service. The location is a little bit outside the main tourist zone, but well worth a few minutes travel and in an interesting neighborhood to explore.

Just AAAmazing. Super authentic and great service. Everything is made fresh and it is delicious. I will definitely recommend this to be one of my top 5 in Oaxaca and it should be yours. Mexico is all about the experience and this is one of those places

Itanoni was good but it didn't exactly live up to my admittedly high expectations. The atmosphere in the restaurant was really good - I loved sitting on the covered porch, watching the employees cook in the outdoor kitchen. We ordered memelas, a tetella, and some tamales, and our food was brought out one variety at a time. Itanoni's biggest problem presented itself with the very first course - a memela with Oaxaca cheese that was drowning in crema. The other, a memela with Oaxaca cheese and beans, was very good. The tetela was just as bad. Crema seeped from the first bite I took. After it had mostly drained out, the tetela was pretty decent. No crema in our tamales, and they were perhaps the best thing we ordered. We got three tamales, one with mole, one with pork, and one with chicken and peppers. These were enjoyable. My favorite was the mole tamale, though my boyfriend liked the pork. It was a thirty minute walk to Itanoni and in hindsight I think we would have been better served to find a restaurant closer to our hotel. Itanoni was just okay.

Very nice stop in the Reforma neighborhood. I was excited to come here once I read that it was one of Alice Waters' favorite restaurants in Mexico, and I'm very glad that we did. The food was very simple, but so perfectly cooked! I had a Pozole and a tetela de hongo and highly recommend both! You might want to double check the times before you head over because they told us they closed at 4pm when we called so we hustled over! The Reforma neighborhood is also very nice to walk around!

Make sure to sample all the corn atoll drinks (there is a special with coffee and orange juice). The food can be ordered using the paper list to ensure they get all your order. Lots of variety and plenty of options. Look out for the hours of operation.

This place was well worth the walk from our Airbnb location. It's not in the central, tourist part of the city, but more outside several blocks away in the business district. The setting is humble and nondescript, a few tables on an enclosed area just off the sidewalk, With the kitchen right there visible, where they are making everything from fresh corn Masa. This is obviously a spot for locals, as they don't give you a lot of extra attention or handholding even if you were obviously it tourist, as we were. The menu is huge and very nondescript, so if your Spanish is OK, it's worth asking for clarifications. But just go ahead and be daring, try what's on the menu, because just about everything is made even more delicious because of the fresh corn masa used in every dish. We had a basic avocado taco, which was nothing more than slices of fresh avocado and a huge tortilla. So beware, the tacos or not your regular street taco, but rather large. We also had some amazing tamales, and a number of other dishes. This is an awesome spot for breakfast or lunch, and also very easy on your pocketbook. If you like anything made with fresh corn masa, and you like to watch the cooks at work preparing things on a traditional coma (Mexican method of cooking over a hot stone surface) you will love this place. And it's worth the hike to find it.

Hard to believe corn can taste like this. Itanoni is an absolute gem!! It's a 60$peso cab ride or 30 minute walk from the Zocalo area, but absolutely worth it. I ate my food too fast for pictures, but everything I had was amazing: memlita clásica con quesillo, tamal zimateco & tetela de chicharrón, and cafe de olla & lemonade with hierbabuena to drink. I wish I had another stomach for the pozole & just pretty much more of everything I just ate, especially the tetela.

Small, off the beaten path restaurant. Very laid-back spot that is hyper focused on corn varieties from Oaxaca and Chiapas, offering tetelas, memelitas, and tostadas. We ordered it all and loved the tetelas the best, particularly the mushroom one. Our 2 year old loved the fresh soursop juice while we sipped our press-pot of coffee.

Order the ese, pozole and atole here. Great place to taste all things corn. Come hungry!

Best tacos of our lives! Barbacoa is other-worldly, quesadilla costilla was amazing. Order a cafe con leche for the table - it comes in a bowl! Tamales felt like opening a sweet, sweet present. Huevos Espirituosos were simple, and gorgeous.

We were in such a hunger rush! I think it was great but I was very hungry lol Probably the best meat i had in the city. The girl tending the spot was cool and nice.

This was my favorite food place in all of Oaxaca. It's about a 10 minute taxi ride (1 mile walking) from the Centro Zocolo. Heirloom corn tortillas, the most delicate and tastiest tamal I've ever had...the softest and most delectable cheese...this restaurant takes the cake. I tried as much as I could, and my favorite quesadillas were the ones with mushrooms and veggies. I would jump on the plane back to Oaxaca just to spend an hour (or two) munching away on Itanoni's food to my heart's content.

Great for breakfast and kid friendly. We had the tacos with mushrooms, Crichton, avocado and YES; in that order. Everything is organic and authentic . We will 100% be back 2h3n we visit oaxaca again.

I wish I could say I had a good day experience - but I didn't. My first two dishes arrived promptly... And then it took half an hour to get one memela. Another table literally came in, ate and left, before I got my memela. I asked my waitress and the busboy more than once where it was. Didn't get much response. The waitress was pretty rude about it. The food was good - but a bit too much hype. There is delicious food everywhere in Oaxaca and lots and lots of artisanal corn..... If I lived in Oaxaca, if probably eat there again. But as a tourist I wouldn't recommend going out of your way.

We got really unlucky with our waiter. Two out of three of our dishes were cold, we kept having to ask for coffee about 5 times before getting it (no exaggeration). They tried to charge us for things that were included in the meal. Overall it was a pretty terrible experience. I wish I could say the food was wonderful but I wouldn't know since it was all cold by the time we got it. We were bummed!

Wow, the food was excellent. The tamale with mole was my favorite. I went around 10 am on a Wednesday and the service was friendly and great. This is a must try in Oaxaca.

Great place to try classic Oaxaca food. We had a couple of memelas, a tetela, a taco and a tamal. All the corn preparations were amazing, the toppings were very tasty and in general all the food was deliciously simple and straightforward good. We had jamaica water and papaya juice as well as hot chocolate, it was great. We see lots of locals there, the place is very simply with a cozy patio. Is a 10-15 min taxi ride from the Zocalo, but the trip is worth.

Food: mediocre at best. Service: poor - a waiter handling too much. Prices: high. Bathroom: dirty. I saw people complaining about their food to the waiter who seemed to be afraid of bringing bad news to the kitchen. This place is full of tourists that have clearly fallen for the power of advertising, including us. Let me help other yelpers: for a little more, go to Café Casa Oaxaca; for a little less, go to the market. If you still choose to go you will taste café de olla that resembles dirty water, the smallest tamal you have ever seen, soggiest chilaquiles with watered down "crema", chewy barbacoa, tasteless chicharron. Corn is good but not good enough.

Oaxaca is known as the food Mecca & it is definitely no lie. From the first taco to the street vendor tamales and especially now to Itanoni ... the cuisine has been heavenly. We first showed up on a Saturday evening (7pm) only to find out they had just closed. Apparently they are a breakfast lunch place. We returned 3 days later & feel like we won the lottery. They would be closing the next day for a week vacation. We liked the food so much, we are 3 times in one day. For breakfast we had 2 different kind of tamales. They are nothing like the ones in the U.S. they are not made with cornmeal. It's more of a potato texture. One was mole & the other was a pork rib. Omg so delicious that we returned for an early dinner & had the same 2 tamales. The roll up taco was filled with eggs/chorizo .. omg Yum ... then we had the triangle looking tortilla filled tetela... we don't know what we ordered but one had pork skin, another with to die for mushrooms, and maybe the third was the pumpkin flour ... whatever u order, you can't go wrong ... its all good.we came back with 5 more people at lunch and ate some more ... more tamales, tetela & tacos .. plus we had 2 large pitcher of the fruit drink. We found out they were going on vacation the next day, we came back at 3 for a mid-day snack and beer. The staff is wonderful. They speak limited English & we speak no Spanish but we we're able to communicate somehow for the love of food !

This small restaurant was a nice break from the bustle of the center. It was on a quiet street, almost all locals. You can watch the lady make tortillas at the comal . At the time of our visit, she was making white and yellow tortillas. We ordered the complete breakfast which came with your choice of fresh juice or a platter of fruit. I ordered hot chocolate with milk, extra charge. I am loving Oaxacan hot chocolate and order it every chance I get. It's out of this world. My husband ordered the huevos rancheros and I ordered the last complete breakfast. I didn't get the name, it had a side of black beans and plantains, something cada. We both enjoyed them a lot! It looked liked the eggs were cracked into the yellow tortilla and fried together. Wonderful tortillas from heirloom corn.

Service was top notch in this beautiful restaurant. Food was excellent and they had oneof the BEST noodle soups I've ever had. The cheese 'bubbles' were creative and delightful.

I live in Oaxaca and frequent Itanoni. The menu is so extensive, I haven't even tried everything yet - and it has been over two years! That could be because I'm also a creature of habit. The agua de guayaba (guava juice) is super tasty, and the tetelas are awesome. The tacos are basic, I've had better on the street. They have a tendency to use old rice (in my experience), so avoid rice dishes as a rule. It can be awkward if you are in a group because everything is just kind of made on the fly and you may get two of your "dishes" before your partner or friends get one. Quirks aside, Itanoni is a great place that everyone should go to at least once .

I would lie if I said I don't like anything corn related. But I do believe this place is special, their corn is organic, and when we 1st visited this place, my husband & I were looking for organic heirloom corn seeds and this was the right place, they even offered a tour but we didn't had much time so sadly we had to skip it. What we did got to try was several of their dishes like tetelas, quesadillas & memelas. The most interesting part is the corn is ground by hand (is there any better way to do it? I don't think so!) and then it's cooked in the traditional clay comals. My husband's 1st comment after his first bite was "OMG so this is what you've been talking about? this truly is what corn is supposed to taste like".

If you miss Itanoni for breakfast in Oaxaca, you miss a true gem. The a la carte menu, the rustic atmosphere and the made-in-front-of-you tortillas are the peak of Oaxacan cuisine. Go there.

The food looked great as it passed us by to other tables. We waited 2 hours and received only a few dishes which consisted of a tamale with frozen pork and a luke warm chorizo dish with undercooked potatoes. Left some cash on the table and walked out.

The food was really great, some of my favorite in Oaxaca. The only reason this isn't a 5 star review is because the staff was rather surly and I did not feel welcome.

Food's ok but service is awful! Very slow and they wouldn't allow any changes to their fixed packages or dishes, very inflexible.

Itanoní is a really interesting choice, their distinctive dish are the tetelas. A tetela is a tortilla cone filled with different recipes. One of the classics is the tetela filled with beans, cheese and cream. Another delicious choice is the one filled with chicharron and cheese. They also offer delicious beverages, like the one with lemon and mint. My favorite drink is the tascalate, which is a traditional drink from Chiapas made with chocolate, sugar, maize and milk or water. The prices are fair but the service is not as good as it used to be regarding speed, they might take some time to get your order and to bring it to the table.

We ate at many places in Oaxaca and this was our favorite, hands down! The food is simple, fresh and unbelievably tasty. I would fly back to Oaxaca tomorrow just for another taste of their mushroom and cream tetela. It's that good. Sure, the service is a bit slow, but we didn't mind - we were there for the food.

Some of the best tortillas we had in Mexico! Loved the breakfast. The comal cooked eggs were fantastic and the service was very attentive. The place is also very low key, you'd never know how great it was if you just walked past it.

Best food in Oaxaca. No question. It's straightforward and 100% the REAL DEAL. Completely worth the taxi ride from el centro. Can't miss menu item would be the quesadilla with queso Oaxaca and squash blossoms. So inexpensive also.