Los Mochis takes its Mexican-Japanese menu to Florida
The Notting Hill restaurant opens its first site outside the UK in West Palm Beach, with a hidden 12-seat omakase counter tucked into the room.
Los Mochis, the Notting Hill restaurant that pairs Mexican and Japanese cooking under one roof, is opening its first restaurant outside the UK on the Florida waterfront, with a hidden omakase counter built into the room.
The restaurant will open inside Phillips Point, a waterfront development in West Palm Beach, in autumn 2027. It marks the international debut for founder Markus Thesleff, who opened the original Los Mochis in 2021 on a premise many in London's restaurant scene doubted at the time, before it became one of the city's harder tables to book.
"When we launched Los Mochis, people told us that combining Japanese and Mexican cuisine was crazy. We believed there was something powerful in bringing these two cultures together," Thesleff said of the original opening.
Two cuisines treated as equals, not one borrowing the other's garnish.
A hidden counter inside
The West Palm Beach site will fold a 12-seat omakase restaurant into the main dining room, concealed from the main floor in the way London's small-format counters have made fashionable elsewhere in the city. Thesleff's team says the main menu will be "tailored to the waterfront setting," though further detail on dishes and pricing is due in the coming months.
Los Mochis built its reputation in London on dishes that treat the two cuisines as equals rather than one borrowing the other's garnish, pairing raw fish preparations with chile, lime and the kind of char usually associated with a Mexican grill. A version of that same pairing of heat and acid already runs through dishes like our own tacos al pastor, built on the same instinct for contrast.
A second US site to follow
Florida is not the end of the group's US ambitions. A Los Angeles location at One Beverly Hills, announced before the Florida site, is now expected to open in 2028, giving Los Mochis two American addresses within roughly a year of each other.
The Florida opening gives the brand a market with no shortage of waterfront dining already, where a Mexican-Japanese kitchen with a hidden counter will have to earn its booking the way it did in Notting Hill.
