Oyamel
Mexican restaurant · Downtown
401 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
Highlights
Creative Mexican tapas & street food with a lengthy cocktail menu
Creative Mexican tapas & street food with a lengthy cocktail menu
"Asked about taking D.C.’s decades-old Oyamel to New York this spring, Andrés responded, “That was a good move. I bring another concept to Hudson Yards and get to expand another brand.” The comment frames the expansion as a strategic brand-growth move into Hudson Yards rather than a casual relocation." - Tierney Plumb
"If its legendary grasshopper tacos aren’t your thing, José Andrés’s whimsical Oaxacan eatery has lots of other $6 options at the ready. Try the Yucatán-style pit barbecued Pipe Dreams pork with Mexican sour orange and pickled red onion, or one with braised Roseda Farms beef tongue with a spicy chile. A new location recently arrived in NYC." - Tierney Plumb
"A new opening by chef José Andrés this week in the former Spanish Diner space at Hudson Yards, representing part of recent restaurant turnover in the development as operators reshuffle following the pandemic." - Melissa McCart
"José Andrés’s airy Mexican restaurant, located in Penn Quarter since 2007, is a high-end option downtown for made-to-order guacamole, antojitos (small plates) with a solid range of vegetables, and tacos like a Yucatán-style cochinita pibil (pit-cooked pig). The menu name-drops purveyors like Rancho Gordo beans and Anson Mills rice. Oyamel led the way for D.C. restaurants to grind their own Mexican heirloom corn. Oyamel just expanded to NYC’s Hudson Yards neighborhood this spring." - Tierney Plumb
"The D.C.-area original, recommended by Bib Gourmand, first debuted in 2004 in Northern Virginia and later relocated to Penn Quarter; when that location opened, diners were abuzz over the Oaxacan chapulines tacos made with sauteed grasshoppers, a dish that remains on the Washington menu but is not offered at the new New York location." - Melissa McCart
