Koli Cocina de Origen - 66220 Monterrey

Amazing flavors, ambient and experience!

We went to Koli for our anniversary...the 9 plates were delicious in all imaginable ways, but the Carne Asada left me speechless, it brought back memories of my childhood when my Dad used to do carne asada(bbq) for the family on Sundays, I was even crying of joy inside. The brothers have really put together a place to have a taste of northeastern mexican food and its culture.

So creative, innovative and fun! The staff is well trained and service is impecable.

I really wanted to love it, but it was a mess, left us with the sense of never returning. Unfortunately the stars shouldn't rate effort and self esteem, or we would be rating a five star. They believe they are a 3 Michelin Star restaurant and charge as if they were one, when they are a -2 star on the reality. The food wanted to show us how well the chef is aware of culinary techniques used around the world, rather than make us enjoy delicious, unique food, so five stars for those techniques! 38% of the food was enjoyable, 20% was dreadful. My digestive system also wants to participate, it wants to give the food 5 stars for taking me so far away from a constipated state during the following day. An ultra 5-star rating on giving us material for conversation on our table with 20+ interruptions with bizarre back stories about the food and drink, that according to an informal average stat we agreed to, where 29% comprehensible. I should also be giving them five stars for really trying to make me make new friends, which I might be in need of, but the couple sitting just 50cm away from us during dinner didn't take my sarcastic remarks with joy. Five stars for taking in money for the owners! Best revenue making place I've seen. The general decor, place and restroom experience should also have five stars for wanting me to work on my self control and patience, from wrecking the place apart.

Yeah this place is the real deal. Beautiful restaurant. The tasting menu is Mexican themed which is exactly what we were hoping for. The masa bite, the carne asada, the drink pairing, watermelon salad, barbacoa were particular standouts. Highlight meal of our trip to Monterrey! Can’t recommend highly enough

More of an art presentation than a restaurant. Food looked really cool. Recommend trying at least once.

Koli is the most interesting restaurant in Monterrey. During 9 courses they reinterpret the flavors of the northeastern Mexican cuisine masterfully; like carne asada, tamales, gorditas and barbacoa. Every bite is a parade of flavors carefully crafted with a story and fresh local ingredients. 5 stars for the dessert heritage/herencia is a piece of art ?. Service is on point, although some waiters are better storytellers than others. Perfect experience for special occasions like birthdays or anniversaries you won’t regret it, is worth every penny.

The experience is excellent in some regards and not the best in others. Service- excellent Waitstaff- excellent Wine- good-excellent Ambiance- excellent Food- ok Vegetarian options- not great Is it worth it? Not especially, and if you're vegetarian definitely not. A couple things for me that would have made it worth: 1) the vegetarian meal should be at least 2/3 the cost of the meat meal based on what is served. 2) the "single bite"/spoonful courses should be a life altering experience, a bite that I remember for years to come. They were mostly unremarkable. 3) if you're going to call yourself fine dining you need to use the finest ingredients. Serving me a meat bite made of chuck or sirloin, unless that is Wagyu, there's only so much you can do to improve the meat itself. Some of the vegetarian alternatives were not even close to the same level/quality but was still the same price as I mentioned. I think there is a lot that Koli does right. It was a great experience, great location, and great employees who indulged me by doing their best to speak English. They need to do a bit more to improve the experience of what comes out of the kitchen to make it more unique and memorable. The shrimp, the piglet rib, the crusty ❄️ (can't remember the name sorry), the barbecoa and sirloin bites and the salad were all very good and/or interesting which was about half of the dishes the others were kind of disappointing. I think this place has a lot of potential and everyone there should be proud of what they've made. A few tweaks could make it a truely incredible experience.