Food, dining, beach clubs, and nightlife coverage for visitors looking for practical choices, current openings, and the mood of Tulum after dark.
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Bonsai Smokehouse in Tulum cures and smokes salmon and trout in La Veleta, a project born of a grandfather’s lox-and-bagel and a reunion 15 years in the making.
Sargassum in Tulum is thinning on Jaguar Park’s beaches after weeks of buildup. Restaurants operating at 10 to 20 percent capacity are counting on November to reach half capacity.
Sea turtle nesting in Tulum has passed 6,000 nests this season. Volunteers want sunbeds and umbrellas off the sand at night, and a municipal rule already sets the hour.
Fanny Barry, co-founder of Tribal Tulum, completes her Eco Woman trilogy with Resolution, the latest chapter in 22 years of teaching, writing, and building a life in Tulum.
Richie Incognito and Chelsea Lovell host a Buffalo Bills weekend in Tulum at La Zebra, December 3 to 7, ending with a watch party for the Bills at the Patriots game.
Tulum Yoga Music Fest opened with a kirtan for nearly 100 people inside Azulik's dome and will close on Sunday after a week of classes, music, and ceremony across town.
Blue, red, and yellow corn ground on site, confited mushrooms inside a tetela, pinole hot cakes the color of slate. Chan Paal cooks 15 minutes from Tulum, in Macario Gómez.
Where to eat in Tulum, by the chef at Motmot: Honorio's cochinita from 6 a.m., Mestixa's Bib Gourmand street food, a sour orange yuzukosho, and Arca's open fire.
UMusic Hotel and Beach Club Tulum becomes the official hotel of Zamna before it opens. The partnership promises a year-round calendar and names dates only from December 31 to January 10.
Tulum taxi fares rose as much as 223 percent on an unsigned union list. The prices match those in Madrid, where workers earn about six times as much as in Quintana Roo.
Bringing a pet to Mexico changed on August 3, 2026. Dogs need a new US screwworm inspection; cats do not, and the return trip has its own rules.
Some commercial rents in Tulum still pass 40,000 pesos a month in the low season. Business owners want landlords to cut them, and about 70 shops have already closed this year.
A sea turtle rescue in Tulum ended with firefighters carrying a green turtle across sargassum to the sea. It was the second turtle found in a pool this August.
A Tulum-inspired restaurant has been operating in Midtown Manhattan since 2022, built in partnership with a Michelin-starred chef from the Riviera Maya. What tán puts on the plate, and which Mexico it comes from.
Tulum and Bacalar producers get municipal transport to sell their harvests in each other's towns without an intermediary. The same two mayors announced a version of this in 2025.
Quintana Roo gastronomy now means the milpa, the market, and the fisher, not only the dining rooms. What the state named in Tulum, and what the cooks got out of it.
World Wellness Weekend reaches Tulum for the first time, September 18 to 20. A bike rally in Aldea Zamá, a Running Dance 7K, and a meditation at Parque del Jaguar.
Nafin and Bancomext are weighing sargassum plan financing for new collection ships and eroded beaches, with Quintana Roo hotels and small businesses in the same conversation.
Tulum hotel occupancy is projected at 50 to 55 percent for September and 80 to 85 percent by December, on reservations the CROC says hotels already hold after a collapsed summer.
Do not drink the tap water in Tulum. What it is fine for, what a garrafón costs, and why the aquifer under the town, not the tap itself, is the reason.
Eight Tulum restaurants received MICHELIN plaques on Friday, the largest share in Quintana Roo. Two hold a Bib Gourmand, six a recommendation, and none a star.
