Does Xaok have a Michelin star?

No. Xaok holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, the guide's distinction for good cooking at a good price, in the 2025 and 2026 Michelin Guide Mexico. The starred restaurants in Oaxaca city are Levadura de Olla and Los Danzantes. Xaok sits alongside La Olla, Tierra del Sol, Labo Fermento and Las Quince Letras in the 2026 Oaxaca Bib Gourmand list.

Does Xaok serve breakfast?

Yes, and it is the least known part of the restaurant. Xaok serves a seasonal breakfast menu Thursday to Sunday, roughly 8:00 to 12:00, while the dinner service gets all the attention. When I went on a Sunday morning in August 2026 we had the patio to ourselves.

How much does a meal at Xaok cost?

Individual plates at Xaok run about 300 to 500 MXN, roughly 16 to 27 USD, at lunch and dinner. The restaurant also offers a private six-course tasting menu with wine and spirit pairings at 2,500 MXN per person, for tables of two to six. Breakfast is the cheaper way in, and prices move with the season, so confirm when you book.

What are Xaok's opening hours?

Xaok lists breakfast Thursday to Sunday from 8:00 to 12:00, lunch and dinner Monday to Friday from 15:00 to 21:00, and Saturday from 17:00 to 22:00. The two services are separate, so check which one you are booking. Hours shift with the season, so confirm by phone or Instagram.

Who is the chef at Xaok?

Uriel García, originally from Santa María Huatulco on the Oaxaca coast, where fish and seafood are everyday cooking. He trained formally in gastronomy, worked in avant-garde kitchens including Origen in Oaxaca, and now runs Xaok as his own contemporary Oaxacan project.

Do I need a reservation at Xaok?

For dinner, yes. Xaok is small and the evening service books out, and reservations are taken online at xaokoaxaca.com or by phone at +52 951 185 7318. Breakfast is much quieter and a walk-in on a weekend morning is realistic, though booking costs nothing.

Where is Xaok and is it walkable from the centre?

División Oriente 227 A, Ex-Marquezado, Oaxaca 68034. It is about a 15 minute walk from the historic centre, in a quiet residential neighbourhood away from the noise and the crowds, and a very short taxi ride if you would rather not walk.

Is Xaok dog friendly?

Yes. Xaok is pet friendly and the service is relaxed about it, which is part of why the patio works for a slow breakfast. The seating is mostly outdoors under trees, with a few tables inside.

Xaok Oaxaca: Bib Gourmand breakfast, menu and prices

Contemporary Oaxacan restaurant from chef Uriel García (ex-Origen), holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand for the second year. Seasonal breakfast menu served Thursday through Sunday mornings only; dinner reservations online. Pet-friendly, an easy 15-minute walk from the centro.

Chef Uriel García's contemporary Oaxacan restaurant in Ex-Marquezado, holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 and 2026, with a small tree-shaded patio and a seasonal breakfast menu Thursday to Sunday. Here is how the menu works, what it costs, how to book and how to get there.

What Xaok is

Xaok is a small contemporary Oaxacan restaurant at División Oriente 227 A, in Ex-Marquezado, a residential neighbourhood about 15 minutes on foot from the historic centre of Oaxaca de Juárez. It is chef Uriel García’s own project, and it holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand in both the 2025 and the 2026 Michelin Guide Mexico.

The restaurant describes its cooking as a multiform culinary expression, which in practice means native Oaxacan ingredients treated with techniques borrowed from outside the region. The dining space is a tiny stylish patio shaded by trees with a few tables inside, and it is pet friendly.

Two things make it useful to a visitor. The first is that it is one of the cheaper ways to eat food of this level in Oaxaca, which is what the Bib Gourmand is for. The second is the breakfast: Xaok serves a seasonal morning menu Thursday to Sunday, and almost nobody outside the city knows about it while the dinner service is fully booked. The name is written as a rearrangement of the letters of Oaxaca, and the restaurant’s own site does not explain it further.

Who cooks here

Uriel García comes from Santa María Huatulco, on the Oaxaca coast, where fish and seafood are part of daily cooking rather than a speciality, and he has said that the flavours of the sea and the coastal landscape shaped him from childhood. He trained formally in gastronomy, worked through avant-garde kitchens, including a period at Origen in Oaxaca city, and then opened Xaok to work on his own terms. The coastal background shows in the menu, where seafood sits beside mountain produce. Origen matters as a reference point: it is one of the restaurants that built the modern Oaxaca dining scene, and a lot of the city’s current chefs passed through it.

Awards and press

Bib Gourmand, Michelin Guide Mexico 2025.
Bib Gourmand, Michelin Guide Mexico 2026, one of five Bib Gourmands in Oaxaca that year alongside La Olla, Tierra del Sol, Labo Fermento and Las Quince Letras.

Xaok runs a menu that changes with the season, and it operates as two almost separate restaurants across the week.

Breakfast, Thursday to Sunday mornings, is a short seasonal menu and the quietest service.
Lunch and dinner, Monday to Friday in the afternoon and evening and later on Saturday, is the à la carte service with individual plates at 300 to 500 MXN.
A private tasting menu of six courses with wine and spirit pairings is available on request at 2,500 MXN per person, for tables of two to six people.
Signature plates reported by the restaurant include tasajo tartar, burrata salad, soft shell crab with chapulines, a ceviche in squid ink and short ribs.

What I ate in August

I went for the Sunday breakfast, which is the service almost nobody books:

Eggs with eggplant hummus and sausage.
Eggs with roasted tomatoes and plátano macho, fried ripe plantain.
Classic chilaquiles.
Corn flour waffles with berries and lemon cream.
Fresh juices, coffee and Oaxacan chocolate.

The menu changes with the season, so read this as the shape of the breakfast rather than a fixed list.

What it costs

Item	Price
Individual plates, lunch and dinner	300 to 500 MXN, about 16 to 27 USD
Private six-course tasting menu with pairings, per person	2,500 MXN, about 135 USD
Breakfast	à la carte, priced below the dinner plates

The Bib Gourmand is the useful signal here: this is the value end of serious cooking in Oaxaca rather than the cheap end of eating. A dinner of two or three plates with drinks lands well below the starred restaurants in the centre. Figures are from August 2026 and move with the season, so confirm at booking. Note that the price band on the guide listing covers the evening service, so a breakfast bill will look nothing like it.

How to book

Online: xaokoaxaca.com.
Phone: +52 951 185 7318.
Email: contacto@xaokoaxaca.com.
Instagram: @xaok.oaxaca for current hours and closures.

Book dinner ahead, especially Friday and Saturday, and in high season from November to March. Breakfast is the exception: weekend mornings are quiet and a walk-in usually works. Check which service you are reserving, because the breakfast and dinner hours do not overlap.

Getting there

Address: División Oriente 227 A, Ex-Marquezado, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca 68034, Mexico.
On foot: about 15 minutes from the historic centre, through quiet residential streets.
By taxi: five minutes or so from the zócalo, and cheap.
Parking: street parking in the neighbourhood, easier than in the centre.

Before you go

Come for the weekend breakfast if you want the patio quiet and the bill small.
Book dinner well ahead. The evening service is the one that fills up.
Bring the dog. It is genuinely pet friendly, which is rare at this level.
Take the walk. Fifteen minutes out of the centre is the whole point: no noise, no crowds.
Pair it with the starred places. For the other end of the Oaxaca scale, see my Levadura de Olla review and Alfonsina, the family garden restaurant outside the city.
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 shows the patio and the Sunday breakfast plates as they arrived. For the rest of the city, open my Oaxaca map or browse the Oaxaca recommendations.