The sauce Puebla is known for: dried chiles, chocolate, seeds, nuts and spices ground down and cooked long enough to lose every rough edge, then poured over turkey or chicken.
Mole poblano came out of the convent kitchens of colonial Puebla, where nuns at Santa Rosa worked out how to grind chiles, chocolate, nuts and spices into a single sauce. The city has never agreed on a fixed ingredient list. El Mural de los Poblanos grinds twenty-six ingredients on a volcanic stone mill, Casareyna serves poblano next to pipian verde, pipian rojo and mole blanco, and the version at Antojitos Mellos in Barrio de los Remedios is only cooked at the weekend. What the recipes share is the method: toast, soak, grind, then fry the paste in fat before letting it down with stock.
9 editor picks for Mole poblano in Puebla, ranked by editorial score. All Puebla signature dishes · Mole poblano across every city.
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Augurio ★ 4.8
centro-historico · Avenida 9 Oriente 16, Centro Histórico, 72000 Puebla
Augurio is chef Angel Vazquez's Pueblan dining room on 9 Oriente, added to the 2026 Michelin Guide selection and built around a six-mole tasting in Puebla.
El Mural de los Poblanos ★ 4.7
centro-historico · Calle 16 de Septiembre 506, Centro histórico de Puebla, 72000 Puebla
El Mural de los Poblanos on 16 de Septiembre pours three moles at once in Puebla: the 26-ingredient house recipe, mole de Xico and mole de Quimixtlan.
Restaurante Casareyna ★ 4.6
centro-historico · Privada 2 Oriente 1007, Centro Histórico, 72000 Puebla
Restaurante Casareyna holds a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand in Puebla, serving a four-mole tasting plate under Talavera vaults on Privada 2 Oriente.
Comal ★ 4.4
centro-historico · Calle 16 de Septiembre 311-B, Centro histórico de Puebla, 72000 Puebla
Comal looks straight at Puebla cathedral from 16 de Septiembre, cooking blue-corn chilaquiles, chanclas, pelonas and mole poblano from breakfast to midnight.
La Casa del Mendrugo ★ 4.4
centro-historico · Calle 4 Sur 304, Centro, 72000 Puebla
La Casa del Mendrugo cooks mole poblano and pipian verde inside a former Jesuit college on 4 Sur in Puebla, with a museum and a jazz room attached.
Antojitos Mellos ★ 4.2
los-remedios · Avenida Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza 2008, Barrio de los Remedios, 72377 Puebla
Antojitos Mellos is the weekend mole and pipian stop in Barrio de los Remedios, Puebla, with pozole and mole de panza on the board the rest of the week.
Fonda Típica la Poblana ★ 4.0
centro-historico · Calle 8 Norte 402, Centro histórico de Puebla, 72000 Puebla
Fonda Tipica la Poblana cooks mole poblano and chalupas on 8 Norte in Puebla, a plain fonda that opens at half past eight and runs until eight at night.
Clementina Cocina Poblana ★ 3.9
centro-historico · Avenida 6 Oriente 411, Centro, 72000 Puebla
Clementina Cocina Poblana keeps a short mole and pipian list on 6 Oriente in Puebla, a daytime kitchen a block from the Calle de los Dulces.
La Ververa ★ 3.8
arboledas-de-guadalupe · Guayacan 52, Arboledas de Guadalupe, 72260 Puebla
La Ververa cooks chalupas, memelas and mole poblano at neighbourhood prices in Arboledas de Guadalupe, Puebla, on Saturdays and Sundays only.