Yuban

Excellent food and service. This place certainly deserves all of the praise it gets. The chapulines were a treat, and tasty. I loved the apple-​mezcal drink. Definitely a go-​back to spot when we’re in DF.

I don’t get it. I come to Mex City several times a year and don’t see any reason to come here again. Tried a wide sampling of things, none of which were real standout dishes. The octopus and tlyudas would be my recommendations. Seems like a good spot for a drink and maybe some light snack but not sure I would recommend eating dinner there.

It all began on a Monday night with a great cocktail named: Chagua La Reyna. This drink came smoking to the table and did not disappoint. Mezcal, lemon juice, rosemary, chile de agua, etc. make a great combination. This place uses fresh herbs from the Northern part of Oaxaca which make for a unique taste. We tried the garnachas (sopes with shredded beef) the cheese wrapped in leaves, tamal de frijol (skip it) and the tomato salad (the best, different colors and shapes, served with pesto sauce). Bean soup and chapulines made their way to the table with guacamole and tostadas.
From the moles, our table ordered the mole negro with turkey (not my favorite here, sweet, spicy and thick) the verde with pork (husband loved it) the amarillo with beef short rib (I loved it, very tender) and the prehispanic (good) all served with homemade tortillas and a variety of salsas. Decent wine list (we shared three bottles from the Valle de Guadalupe) tried a few mezcals and it ended with cappuccinos and a few desserts.
Yes!

Such a cool vibe and amazing cocktails. Guac is delicious and various items in the menu are perfect for the adventurous eater such as the grasshopper — very earthy.

After reading positive reviews, my boyfriend and I decided to give this place a try and boy are we glad! We ate dinner here twice out of our four nights here. We are not the type to eat at a place twice, especially when traveling so we were impressed. Our server, Victor really helped make the experience what it was. He was friendly, charismatic and very informative regarding everything on the menu. We took his suggestions and had no regrets.
Yuban specializes in Oaxacan cuisine and had grasshoppers on the menu. They were flavored very well and went good with the guacamole, adding a nice zing. For main dishes, I had the Tlayuda mixto which was delicious and my boyfriend had the amarillito, a fantastic short rib dish that was very juicy and flavorful. The meat was very tender. The pescado dish was excellent as well, the fish cooked to perfection and paired well with two sauces. Being popular for mezcal, the drinks were some of the best, creative and most beautifully presented cocktails I’ve had. I tried one with anis and cardamom, the mojito and one citrus with gin. The chocolate cake dessert was very rich without being overly sweet.
It’s on the pricier side however for 3 drinks, 1 appetizer and 2 entrée’s for 40 bucks, it’s a steal for us New Yorker’s where we get charged that much for just being given a menu ;). Highly recommend.

An incredible meal! Our waiter, Victor, guided us through the menu — which was unique and creative. Every recommendation was spot on. We shared the octopus and regretted not ordering two. The flor de calabaza soup was excellent but the mole verde with pork belly was the star of the evening. We ended with a unique dessert of unknown items, chocolate, coffee, cake and sweet fruits, that was perfect. Creative cocktails and great service. Eat here.

The food here was amazing, and the presentation was great. Great cocktails too.

This was my first Unilocal spot I visited in the city and to be honest I was a bit hesitant. I figured if it was on Unilocal it’d probably be full of gringos (like me) and sure enough it was. In fact, I wasn’t addressed at all in Spanish much to my disappointment but I mean, it is what it is.
The food AND cocktails, however, easily made up for this. I mean everything I had was delicious. And seriously the COCKTAILS! They were divine and just two of them had be pretty much blasted. I also liked that the waiter noticed I had ordered vegetarian items and proceeded to make other recommendations and offer off the menu items. Great service!
They also strangely, seemingly sat all the solo diners in the same section — which seemed odd but I ended up making a great friend thanks to this. I’ll definitely be back on my next visit!

My husband and I came here after reading the Unilocal reviews. I am a big foodie. I know that term is lame but I seek out food as an experience and this place did not disappoint.
We had:
A bean soup as a gift from the kitchen, along with avocado that was whipped and placed on a crisp cracker/​tortilla.
Then I had the venison, and the tomato salad. My husband had the empanadas and one other dish I can’t remember the name. It was on a giant flaky tortilla that was folded and had chorizo in it.
The other highlight was the gin cocktail I got. It had a name with «Rosa» something in it.
Everything we are was divine. My only regret was not trying the grasshopper tacos.
We will be back when we go to DF again.

Soy fan de la comida oaxaqueña entonces estaba muy emocionada de venir a cenar. Sobre todo por las reseñas positivas. Pero la verdad me decepcionó. Me chocan los lugares que te cobran un buen por una probadita de comida.
Fui con amigas y pedimos comida para compartir. El mole negro fue lo más decepcionante. Tenía buen sabor pero literal era una embarradita en un plato extendido con dos cachitos de guajolote (no bañados en mole). Venía con una mini cazuelita de arroz (4 cucharadas). Tenía sabor rico, pero como era tan poquito ni se podía disfrutar. Y definitivamente no vale los más de $ 250 pesos.
De entrada pedimos unas bolitas de queso Oaxaca preparadas con hoja Santa y muchos condimentos. Estaban bien, solo con demasiado ajo. Luego pedimos unos chapulines con guacamole. Estaban muy ricos y esos sí los súper recomiendo. Al final pedimos una tlayuda de tasajo también. Estaba buena pero nada del otro mundo. La hacen doblada como quesadilla (grande).
De tomar pedimos una botella de vino mexicano que estaba rico y pues el precio está aceptable (aprox. $ 450).
El lugar también está bonito pero no se me hace que valga la pena y al final me quedé con un mal sabor de boca. Éramos 4 y pagamos cada una un poco más de $ 400 (ya con propina) por esos 4 platillos, el vino y 3 naranjadas. Entiendo que al público extranjero se le haga bien, pero para mí los restaurantes Azul están mucho mejor, sobre todo si ya vas a pagar ese precio.

Desde que empecé a ver Top Chef México y vi que el chef de este lugar participaba y hacía unas cosas increíbles quise conocer Yuban de inmediato y me encantó. Para empezar la decoración del lugar es súper linda, llena de plantitas en la terraza y adentro una luz tenue con un estilo vintage encantador; para empezar pedimos unas entradas que consistían en sopesitos y taquitos de chapulines, luego probamos un pescado de los platos fuertes y una tlayuda, la cual tenía abundancia en su contenido y buen sabor, lo que se llevó mi corazón fueron los cócteles, en particular el de Chile de agua con jengibre y mezcal se llevó mi corazón, tenía un sabor increíble y una presentación aún mejor, le ponen nitrógeno líquido y llega espumeando a tu mesa.
El concepto de la comida de la sierra de Oaxaca me pareció muy interesante, conozco esa cocina, he de decir que no toda la carta le pertenece a esa región pero si tenía opciones muy diferentes a lo que en general los restaurantes oaxaqueños ofrecen generalmente.
Volvería siempre a este lugar y sino por la comida al menos por un cóctel súper si.

We find this place through Unilocal.What a nice surprise, the interior was trendy and cozy. Our waiter Omar was super nice. He was the first waiter we met could speak English in Mexico City. And just very helpful in introducing food to us. Most important thing is that every dish we ordered was surprisingly good. They have beautiful presentation, every dish has attention to texture and balance of taste. Later we found the chef is in the TV show «The Top Chef of Mexico». No wonder. We challenged ourself with the crispy grasshopper, it is REALLY good. Everything was good. We feel lucky to find this place.

What a great experience! First time in Mexico City and this place is a MUST! Our waiter, Victor was very helpful and made great suggestions. I tried to speak as much Spanish as I knew but thankfully Victor (our server) spoke very good English. The Mezcal drinks, white fish, and beef mole were sooo delicious! You can’t go wrong here! Happy we went here!

Great food and drinks. We really enjoyed the lechon, mescal cocktails, and moles.
They have an English menu, but were also happy to deal with talk-​like-​a-​three-​year-​old Spanish.

Never knew Yuban was there despite being up and down, back and forth on Colima. Yuban hugs Insurgetnes, yet, you manage to hear little to none of the noise that Insurgentes contains — nothing. One wonders how that occurs, but then you become preoccuiped with the available items. Definitely based on Oaxaca items, everything, from the Mole Verde, Mole negra, the appetizers, the choice of drinks, to the chocolate desserts and alternative desserts, to the dishware, to the décor, it is easy to think of Oaxaca.
The waiter was amazing, open, friendly suggestive, constantly at our needs, as well as other service staff that were not assigned to our table. We sat in the outdoor seating area, and if you look inside, the bar and stools actually become inviting and more spacious than you would imagine walking by and taking a quick glance. Specializing in mezcals from their menu, as well as many deep and specific dishes — all Oaxacan, this is one of those restraurants tat you would not guess from the outset how much it would satisty you as a customer.
The price — this was the most I ever spent on a meal, I have to be honest. Yet, this was one place I did not leave feeling overstuffed, despite the deceiving size of the dinner portion (it fills you completely) the dessert (shared between two), and combined with the order of warm tortillas and ending with coffee — everything hits the spot perfectly — so a little pricier than you will see for most dinners, but you end up leaving completely satisfied, so worth the cost.

Food yummy. Service attentive, though slow for orders to arrive to the table. Drinks were spectacular.

Me encanta. Cuando leía que era comida zapoteca (oaxaqueña), me espantaba un poco, porque no sabía lo que era. Ya he ido, y siempre estoy deseando volver. TODO lo que probamos estaba muy bien preparado, el servicio era excelente. Y además raciones grandes! Probamos la tlayuda mixta, y estaba perfecta. El pulpo en chile ajo, también excelente. No veo la hora de volver. :)

I can’t say enough about this wonderful restaurant in the Roma, near the Condesa, neighborhood of Mexico. I don’t know where to start. Victor was our server and he was so attentive and helpful. His English was very good, much better than our Spanish. He knew the cocktail and food menus really well and was happy to offer suggestions. When I asked a question of whether red or white wine would go better with my green mole with pork entrée (which was amazing!), he went and checked with the chef. He then brought me a taste, with the bottles, of two white wines since the chef recommended white.
The cocktails were hand crafted, works of art. Inventive and delicious.
All the food the four of us had was incredible. The chef sent out two amuse bouche, a bean soup and a crispy shell with guacamole on it with 3 different delicious salsas. Delicious way to wake up our palettes.
For starters we had the Oaxacan cheese and the heirloom tomatoes, both were amazing, sublime and just crazy good — I would say they are a MUST!
The moles were as good as the ones we had in Oaxaca, if not better. The meats were perfectly cooked, meaning not overcooked, including the pork. The short rib mole was probably the winner, but the steak and pork were delicious as well.
They only offer two desserts, a chocolate cake with coffee crumbles and ice cream and a «cheesecake» like dessert. Both were incredible and not too sweet. They had a lot of flavors and components in each dish. My descriptions aren’t doing them justice.
While the menu on their website is in Spanish, they do have English menus at the restaurant.
Victor brought us a complimentary sipping mescal to try that was soft and not too smokey. It’s serves with orange slices so you take a sip and then bite on the orange. We ended up ordering one to go with dessert. Fabulous. My husband wanted a red wine with dessert and again Victor brought two for him to taste, including the bottle, to chose from.
We felt very welcome and incredibly well taken care of. And all the flavors were just amazing. I would go back to this restaurant in a heartbeat!

Wow
Cancel whatever plans you had for dinner and make a reservation at Yuban.
If you want a true sense of what the Mexico City culinary revolution looks like, you will find it here. Every dish and every drink took my breath away– the plating and presentation was hip and cool, yet the flavors were authentic and familiar. I tried five drinks (yes, five) and loved them all.
We had a couple appetizers and a couple of the mole dishes and while I normally suggest an entrée, Yuban seems like they refresh the menu frequently. We ordered enough food to know that you cannot go wrong – but definitely try one of the moles.
If you want to tickle your taste buds and have a meal to remember forever, I highly recommend this place. Best dinner in DF. Great ambiance, great service, great neighborhood.

The best meal in DF by far and I want to a say one of the best culinary experiences In my 47 years of my life.
First, incredible service with attention to details. Yuban (tierra viva) is a Oaxacan theme restaurant so it was perfect we walked in as Lila Downs voice was part of the ambience.
We started with cocktails, I started with the house mezcal that was espadin and it was very tasteful. All the drinks were very well thought and mixed, my favorite was «Chagua La Reyna.» You must have the Pancho Villa at the end of the night!
The dinner started with a house appetizer that consisted with a frijol negro soup with sprinkles of chicharron with tlayudas con guacamole that included three different type of salsas.
Then we continued with a Salpicon de venado rolled in aguacate, wow what an experience. We continued with a tlayuda vegetariana and a pulpo en brasas that was perfectly executed.
The young chef, Fernando Martinez Zavala, is an incredible chef that brings the Oaxacan culinary to another level.
We devoured two meals, Chichilo and amarillito. Both were delicious. Dessert came soon after with chocolate mousse and coffee and a cremoso with seared piña that became my favorite until the Chef sent a special dessert on the house that was a Torrija broiche bread with different fruits and a scrumptious helado.
If you are visiting Mexico City, Yuban is a must place to visit.

We were so lucky that this restaurant was right around the corner from our Airbnb! This restaurant transports you to to feeling like you’re inside a chic, artisanal market. We had 4 amazing cocktails, two appetizers and two main courses for around $ 80. The deer salpicon was the most beautiful dish of our meal and the mole negro was the most delicious.

This place was recommended to me as a very good restaurant for traditional Mexican cuisine. The place was excellent not only for the food but the ambiance and service too.

The best meal we had in Mexico City during our week-​long stay.
Delicious cocktails, elevated Oaxacan food, so delicious and creative. Beautiful presentation on all dishes. Both the pulpo and the venison were amazing. The empanadas were good, although the least exciting of everything we ordered. The lechon is something I would come back to eat again and again. For dessert we ordered a chocolate cake and the daily sorbet, both of which we cleaned the plates. And finished with café de olla, also delicious.
We will come back next time we are in town, since the menu changes we can’t wait to see what else will be offered in another season. Like another reviewer said, go here. It’s delicious.

Celebrating my birthday and wanting authentic Mexican food with a flair. I also wanted something different from the usual tacos. Through Unilocal I found this great place.
We started with mescal cocktails. They were so good and unusual, we had to try more. Interesting, exotic and do tasty.
The food was Oaxacan. Lots of authentic ingredients in exciting preparations. Rich bold flavors that made my palate happy and my heart sing. The desserts were so tempting, but we were so full from the meal that we could not manage it.
The moles were rich and inviting, the meats skillfully prepared. The cricket tacos were almost too rich, but we enjoyed them with the drinks.
The staff was super friendly and spoke to us in English, as my Spanish is terrible.
Go here. Don’t think twice.

What a nice surprise to get some real Oaxaca food on the city. This is as close as you can get to the real deal. The food is amazing and sometimes the flavor will not be familiar even if you are Mexican. Drinks are great and most of them based on Mezcal. Don’t go in a hurry since everything is prepared at the moment. This is a slow food encounter and it would prove to be great!

Muy bueno. La comida rica, diferente, novedosa. El lugar original, con una ingeniosa mezcla de música, entre mambos, cumbias y danzones.

Awesome place !!! Great food !! Try the grasshopper tacos and the mole. Great cocktails as well!

Visité al Yuban con más expectativas de las que me fueron satisfechas, la verdad. Anyway, volvería a ir, para darme una segunda oportunidad.
El lugar está en la hipster colonia Roma, con pequeña fachada y decoración agradable. Tienen un jardín en la parte trasera muy agradable, que imagino está genial para una buena sobremesa con mezcal y cervezas, en un viernes o sábado.
Cuando llegué a comer (sábado) la tripulación del restaurante estaba hecha toda bolas sobre dónde acomodarme, y después de 2 intentos fallidos de sentarme en alguna mesa, terminé comiendo en la barra de la entrada del restaurante. Yo no me fijo en esas cosas, pero no fue lo mejor para disfrutar la mejor experiencia.
El menú tiene opciones limitadas pero suficientes (así es mejor, a mi gusto), y la entrada de bolitas de queso c/​aceite y especias estaban muy buena, aunque la tlayuda nomás no lo estaba (la tortilla tostada y quebrada, y los ingredientes sin mucho chiste ni sabor). La cerveza estaba bien fría, y la atención del personal fue buena.
Lo visitaré de nuevo (ya con reservación), me tomaré un par de mezcales, y me daré la oportunidad de disfrutarlo.

Among all the varied choices for dining in Mexico City, including some on the top must eat lists out there, and after dining at most of them, Yuban tops the list for me. Loved the meal here! Described as Oaxacan, which to me naively only meant mole, there’s more to the cuisine than that. This place also puts a more modern spin on dishes. We started with molotes and empanadas. Our mains included amarillito con carne de res (beef with yellow sauce) and verde con cerdo (pork with green sauce). Everything was carefully presented and delicious. To accompany our food, they were serving a special mescal cocktail that emitted a smokey air. Not entirely sure what it was, as my understanding of Spanish only goes so far, but the mezcal was crisp, had a slight bite, and went down way too smoothly. For dessert, we had the chocolate cake, which my partner decidedly declared one of the best pieces of chocolate cake he had ever eaten. The atmosphere of the restaurant was comfortable, dark and cozy — lots of wooden pieces made it feel like we were eating in someone’s home. Also, note, you might miss the entrance as the tiny bar fronts the street and the sign is inconspicuous.

This was my favorite restaurant in Mexico City! Absolutely beautiful dishes, delicious handcrafted cocktails, wonderful service, and a relaxing, zen atmosphere in the restaurant. The menu was a little hard to understand (The ancient dishes didn’t translate perfectly in English) but you can’t really go wrong with the menu here.
The tomato salad was perfect, a gorgeously garnished variety of delicious multicolored tomatoes and ground basil sauce. Delicious sauces came out with the complimentary chip appetizer. The mole with beef was my favorite, tender delicious meat with plenty of sauce.
I could have sipped the delicious mezcal cocktails all night, the were beautifully presented with dry ice and herb garnish.
The best part… great price!!! For 70US we had 3 drinks, appetizer, 2 entrees. Overall a wonderful spot!

Mole Negro — chocolate goodness on a plate
Bohemia Obscura — my new favorite Mexican beer (how do I get this in NY?)
I’m not sure what mezcal cocktail I had but it’s was delicious and smokey.
Yuban is beautiful restaurant. I can wait to be back in Mexico city and eat here again.

Beautiful place. Great experience. They let us try a bunch of different miles before settling on an entrée. Cocktails were delicious.

This is the best restaurant we ate at in Mexico City in our four day stay there. The food was excellent and we have never had waiters and staff try so hard to please us. The atmosphere is nice and quiet so you can have a conversation without having to raise your voice and the cuisine was excellent.

Very trendy yet relaxed place with a great cocktail menu and fantastic mole offerings for dinner.
The Aguas with Mezcal were refreshing, complex, and tasty.
I didn’t have dinner but can vouch for it based on what I saw others eating. If you are staying jn Roma, you can’t go wrong with this place. The service is top notch as well!

Wonderful food and service. Fixed 6 course menu could drive some people off this place but they know exactly what they’re doing. Loved the local Mexican focus they brought to their dishes and make sure to try their speciality cocktail

Me encanta la sopa de garbanzo con hierbabuena como la prepara mi abuela con un chamorro en estofado, que aquí le nombran «Manchamanteles».
Los cócteles a base de mezcal, muy recomendable para paladares aventureros: gengibre, Chile de agua y mezcal mezclados con agua mineral, amargo, único y muy pegador!
Aunque la entrada de chapulines baby con mouse de aguacate, Ósease guacamole con tortillas hechas a mano.
Por último, un postre de chocolate es una genialidad, con mole… Raro, pero delicioso, Yuben un rico lugar para pasar una tarde noche muy a gusto!

Our last meal in Mexico city ended in a bang. We went to Yuban and had such a lovely meal there. The General Manager Luis, gave us a tasting of all the Moles so that we could decide which we wanted, this was a treat. The workers there were all so nice and personable. Our appetizers were delicious. Had some yummy tomato salad that was out of this world. All the food we had was fresh and very tasty. At first I thought this place was going to be stuffy and pretentious but it turned out to be homey and laid back. Everything that we wanted. The staff all spoke English which made it that much more comfortable for us as we knew what we were ordering. It was great Oaxacan food!!!

Comida muy rica con el tracional sabor oaxaqueño

My wife and I have been visiting Oaxaca annually since 2008, so it was a great surprise to find an oasis of Oaxaca on our trip to Mexico City. The food is terrific, and prepared as we would expect it down south (including cooking the tortillas on a clay comal!); the décor is beautiful, and punctuated with tiles by Oaxaca’s incomparable Francisco Toledo; and the mezcal selection is second to none! *Highly* recommended!

Este no es sólo un restaurante de cocina oaxaqueña, tiene una especialidad muy especial: comida de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Las recetas vienen de distintas comunidades zapotecas y son pasadas de generación en generación, llegando a la cocina de este lugar a través de la abuela de unos de los socios.
Usan ingredientes 100% orgánicos que tratan de importar desde Oaxaca, creando un vínculo especial con los productores locales quienes se ven beneficiados por este tipo de negocios. Además, el lugar es muy agradable para pasar la tarde, para hacer una sobremesa larga en el patio.
Pidan la sopa de guías de calabaza de Zimatlán, el amarillito con hongos de temporada, el chichilo negro relleno de guajolote o el estofado con venado, ¡todo riquísimo! Y los moles, todos los moles valen la pena. Lo ideal es pedir varios platillos al centro para compartir.
Prueba el agua de Chilacayota o de limón rallado, y al menos uno de los muchos mezcales que tienen en su carta. El restaurante está en servicio de martes a domingo de 13:30 a 23:30 hrs y el bar se queda abierto hasta la 1:30.
Independientes, pero con el mismo amor por México, comparten espacio con «El Bicho», un foro en el que se presentan propuestas de cine y teatro mexicano independiente.

La barra del sitio es uno de mis espacios recurrentes para tomar mezcal cuando se presenta el antojo, pero puede ser coyote, tobalá o yuban, pero es difícil escoger un favorito sin sentir que traicionas un momento en específico de la historia personal. El sitio te transporta, su mobiliario de madera y clásico, te hace sentir de visita en la mejor mezcalería del viejo Oaxaca, pero también lejos del caos y smog de la ciudad, en una postal de Álvarez Bravo que enviarías a tu ex para agradecerle su partida. No sé, debe ser el tono azul que tiene el sitio o el extraño sentimiento de omnipresencia en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, de donde vienen muchos productos que sirven aquí y porque al comerlos o beberlos, te empieza a invadir esa distancia e historias. Me gustan los tamales, ignoro si tienen o no manteca, pero no olvidas su sabor y si son los frijol, el sabor de la hoja de aguacate sigue en tu paladar así comas mole, caldo de res o pastel de queso. Son sabores de antaño, seguro si mi bisabuela, con sus 130 años que debería tener, probará los platillos del sitio me daríà la razón, no son sabores de nuestro tiempo. Sin embargo es un sitio donde se debe tener el arrojo del explorador culinario y espiritual, porque créanme, esos mezcales no son para enamoradizos ni escritores, recomiendo ir sin celular o con grata compañía.

Cuando empezaron a remodelar /​construir este lugar, pasaba por ahí muy seguido y vi como poco a poco iban construyendo una muy linda barra de madera con una mesitas para dos recargadas sobre la pared de azulejos, y pensaba tengo que venir, que me encantan los lugares con una barra que te invite a tomarte un trago y donde te puedas sentar tranquilamente.
Regresé al lugar y me encontré con la sorpresa de que no solo es la barra, sino en la parte de atrás tienen un lindo salón decorado con mucha madera, azulejos y unas lindas mesas, sillas de madera y paredes pintadas con flores, muy acogedor, de muy buen gusto y original pero clásico. Nos sentamos y empezamos a disfrutar de todo, el súper servicio atento y sabio, sabio porque los meseros tienen el gran conocimiento de lo que venden.
El menú es zapoteco oaxaqueño, no hay muchos platillos de donde escoger pero vaya que de verdad cocinan muy muy bien. Puedes ordenas un tasajo para picar, delicioso, una chapulines para taquear, una sopa de haba ó de guajolote, deli, alguna ensalada, y de platos fuertes algún mole o una deliciosa tlayuda, las mejores que he probado, de tasajo y chorizo, UFF!!! Recomendadísimo, buenísimo, súper lugar, súper servicio.

Uno de los mejores lugares para comer en la Roma y seguramente en la ciudad. Muy cerca de Insurgentes, pero aún así permanece un poco escondido. Si te asomas desde la calle quizás no distingas lo que encontrarás dentro: deliciosa comida en un espacio increíble.
Se agradece que Yuban ofrezca comida zapoteca sin caer en los lugares comunes del folclor y el colorido sin fin. Su ambiente, me parece, remite más a una antigua botica que al clásico Oaxaca que vive en la mente de todos.
La chef, Paloma, refleja el amor que tiene por los alimentos en cada plato. Sus versiones de los moles oaxaqueños son elaboradas con cuidado y cariño y se nota en cada bocado.
La lista de mescales es interesante, pero también tienen algunas buenas opciones de cerveza artesanal, como las Teufel que difícilmente se consiguen fuera de Oaxaca.

Dios, dios, dios… la carta de mezcales del Yuban es simplemente deliciosa: tiene mezcales originarios que no encontrarás en otra parte.
Su concepto va muy en consonancia con el foro el bicho, que es su vecino y oscurohermanogemelo: recuperar lo nacional y las propuestas jóvenes, pero en este caso para la cocina y en específico para la cocina zapotec; de ahí su nombre: yuban significa tierra viva en zapoteco.
Todos los ingredientes que usan aquí son orgánicos, comprados bajo esquemas de comercio justo y por lo general director de los productores. De hecho si preguntas, te dirán de dónde viene cada ingrediente de lo que estás comiendo.
Todo ello, desde luego, se refleja en la calidad de la comida, en la maravilla de los sabores. ¡No te lo pierdas!

El Yuban se anuncia como: «Cocina casera Zapoteca».
Es un bello lugar al que le sacaron mucho espacio pues en un mismo local comparte espacio con el Foro El Bicho, difícil de explicar aquí como es la distribución, baste decir que el techo esta en desnivel para formar la tarima de dicho foro.
El lugar abrió en octubre del 2013, por lo que todavía le está costando posicionarse, y en estos momentos sólo es frecuentado por jipsters de bigotes puntiagudos y camisas de leñador slim fit.
La carta es pequeña, con platos bien seleccionados e inversamente proporcional a su carta de coctelería y –obveo wé– mezcales.
Todo en este lugar te transporta –valga el aforismo– a Williamsbourgh, NY, nada mas que aquí hablan pesos y no dólares. Las noches de fines de semana hay grupos grandes y además un dishey ameniza la ocasión.