Papadzules are corn tortillas dipped in a green pumpkin-seed sauce (pepita molida), rolled around hard-boiled egg and finished with a fresh tomato-and-chiltomate sauce.
The dish dates to pre-Hispanic Maya cookery, where pumpkin seeds were the daily grease and protein source. The name in Mayan ('papak suul') means 'food for lords'. Spanish hard-boiled egg overlay made the modern version. La Chaya Maya and La Tradición both run canonical recipes today.
4 editor picks for Papadzules in Mérida, ranked by editorial score. All Mérida signature dishes · Papadzules across every city.
La Chaya Maya ★ 4.4
Santa Lucía · Calle 55 459 esq. Calle 60, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
La Chaya Maya on Santa Lucía in Mérida pours tortillas on a clay comal in the dining room and runs sopa de lima, poc chuc and panuchos seven days.
Manjar Blanco ★ 4.4
Paseo de Montejo · Calle 47 496, Zona Paseo Montejo, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Manjar Blanco on Mérida's Calle 47 corridor near Paseo de Montejo runs cochinita pibil and queso relleno (Netflix Taco Chronicles featured) lunch-only.
La Tradición ★ 4.3
Paseo de Montejo · Calle 60 293 x 25 y 27, García Ginerés, 97070 Mérida, Yucatán
La Tradición on Calle 60 in Mérida runs chef David Cetina's Yucatecan recados, poc chuc and queso relleno from a family kitchen of two decades.
Los Almendros ★ 4.0
La Mejorada · Calle 50-A número 493, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Los Almendros on Parque de la Mejorada in Mérida runs the Yucatecan canon since 1972, claiming credit for putting poc chuc on the city's restaurant maps.