Lotti

What Lotti is

Lotti is a small European restaurant on the corner of Colima and Tonalá in Roma Norte, Mexico City. It opened in 2025 in a Porfirian house built in 1915, and it is the first restaurant of its own for the Swiss chef Luc Liebster. The name is his grandmother’s.

The room is about ninety square metres and seats roughly thirty. It is deliberately plain: pale walls, an open beam ceiling, Mexican tile detail, good lighting and a playlist that someone clearly thought about. You can sit in the dining room, at a counter with a view of the kitchen, or outside on the corner terrace, which is the reason a lot of people book in the first place.

The cooking is European technique applied to Mexican produce, and the restaurant is strict about that direction. Even the cheese is Mexican and artisanal rather than imported from Europe. Lotti carries a listing in the Michelin Guide Mexico but holds no star and no Bib Gourmand.

Who cooks here

Luc Liebster is Swiss. He trained at Steirereck in Vienna, one of the reference points for Central European fine dining, and then moved to Mexico City and spent about three years at Pujol under Enrique Olvera. Lotti is what he did next, and it reads as a chef using a European grammar on a Mexican pantry rather than a European restaurant transplanted to Roma.

The Swiss half of his background shows up directly on the menu in dishes like capuns, the Graubünden dumplings wrapped in chard leaves, and a cordon bleu, and less directly in the precision of everything else.

Awards and press

• Michelin Guide Mexico: listed, with no star and no Bib Gourmand in the 2026 selection.
• The Infatuation: reviewed as a Roma date-night restaurant with a Pujol-trained Swiss chef and small, precise plates.
• Time Out Mexico City: included in its best restaurant openings of 2026.
• Food and Wine en Español, Hotbook, Dónde Ir and The Happening all covered the opening through 2025 and 2026.

How the menu works

Lotti is à la carte and seasonal. There is no tasting menu to commit to. Dishes are small and priced so that ordering four or five between two people is the normal way to eat here, which is also how the bill climbs past what the individual prices suggest.

• Format: starters, cold plates, pasta and dumplings, mains, dessert. The list changes with the season.
• Drinks: a long wine list, plus a full non-alcoholic pairing, which is rarer in Mexico City than it should be.
• Seating: terrace, dining room, or the counter facing the kitchen team.
• One thing to know: the olives that arrive when you sit down are a charged item, not a welcome gift. They appear on the bill with Swiss precision.

Dishes that recur across accounts of Lotti include the Hasselback potato, the house brioche with mortadella, capuns wrapped in chard with onion sauce, scallop crudo, salmon trout from Zitácuaro with a chilli and squash beurre blanc, and apple strudel.

What I ate

When I filmed in July the meal ran like this:

• Hasselback potatoes topped with caviar.
• Brioche with mortadella, soaked in a creamy sauce.
• Kampachi crudo with golden beetroot, precisely balanced.
• Lamb leg hidden under fine layers of avocado.
• Porcini gnocchi under a foamy beurre blanc infused with tarragon.
• A pistachio dessert with real cherries inside.

The menu is seasonal, so treat that as a shape rather than a list to order from.

What it costs

Most dishes at Lotti are around 300 MXN, about 17 USD, which was the single most surprising thing about the place when I went in July 2026. The catch is portion size: plates are small, you order several, and published averages put the real figure per person considerably higher.

Item	Price
Most individual dishes	Around 300 MXN, about 17 USD
Average spend per person	800 to 1,500 MXN, about 45 to 85 USD
Welcome olives	Charged, not complimentary
Wine and alcohol-free pairings	Priced separately

Prices move with the season and with the menu. Use the dish price to judge whether a dish is worth ordering and the average spend to set your budget.

How to book

Reservations are essential. With about thirty seats and a steady stream of press since opening, Lotti books out, particularly for the weekend and for the terrace.

• OpenTable: search for Lotti, Ciudad de México.
• The restaurant’s own site: lotti.mx.
• Instagram: @lotti_restaurante.

Lotti is open Wednesday to Sunday and closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday to Friday is evening service, starting somewhere between 17:00 and 18:00 depending on which listing you read, and Saturday and Sunday open in the early afternoon around 14:00. The kitchen winds down around 22:30. Ask for the terrace when you book if that is what you want, because it is not assigned by default.

Getting there

• Address: Colima 235, corner of Tonalá, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Mexico City.
• Metro: Insurgentes on Line 1 is about a ten minute walk. Hospital General on Line 3 is a similar distance from the other side.
• Metrobús: Línea 1 stops at Álvaro Obregón, about five minutes away.
• Landmarks: a few minutes from Plaza Río de Janeiro and from Avenida Álvaro Obregón, the main Roma Norte spine.
• Parking: street parking on Colima is difficult in the evening. Use a taxi app.

Before you go

• Book, and book early. Thirty seats and a small terrace is not much capacity for the amount of attention this place gets.
• Order more than you think. Plates are small by design. Four or five between two is the working number.
• Expect the olives on the bill. They are a dish, not a courtesy.
• Take the counter if you are on your own. It is the best seat in the house for watching a small kitchen work.
• Ask about the alcohol-free pairing. It is a proper pairing, not a jug of juice.
• Pair it with the rest of Colima street. La Pantera Asador is a few blocks down at number 124 and is the opposite kind of evening, open fire and big cuts.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the short version, dish by dish, from the potatoes to the pistachio. For everything else in the city, open my map or browse the Mexico City recommendations.