Tulum

About this audio guide

This guide to Tulum follows Eric Werner and Mya Henry, a New York couple who left their East Village apartment in two thousand ten to build an off-grid, wood-fired restaurant on the jungle edge of town. It traces how a kitchen with no power line, no phone number, and a menu that changes daily grew out of Yucatan ingredients and honey still harvested by Maya beekeepers along this coast. You will hear how a single newspaper write-up reshaped the wait for a table here. Stand near the palm-strung tables at dusk to catch the smell of wood smoke drifting through town.