Casona Sforza
Eleven brick vaults sit a few yards off the sand at La Barra de Colotepec, and the hotel restaurant, La Bóveda, cooks local produce through French technique. Adults only.
Why go
Alberto Kalach designed the vaults, and he set them for the view, the privacy and the breeze rather than in a row.1 MOB Studio, out of Mexico City, did the interiors.1 There are eleven rooms and no children.1 The kitchen is La Bóveda, and the Guide describes its cooking as glocal
, built on hyper-local ingredients with global flavors and French techniques on top.1 That is the whole published account of the food, and it is one sentence.
Order this / avoid
- Order: dinner at La Bóveda if you are staying. Nothing approved names a dish, so go and look at the board.1
- Avoid: booking it for a family trip. Adults only, on purpose.1
What locals & experts say
- Architectural Digest, quoted on the hotel's own site: the building is
a marriage of ancient but airy arches and vaults with contemporary bohemian flair
. This is a pull quote off the hotel's homepage; I have not read it at Architectural Digest, so treat it as the hotel showing you its best notice.2
Good to know
- The Guide gives Casona Sforza one MICHELIN Key, its hotel award, printed as
A very special stay
. A Key says nothing about the restaurant.1 - The hotel also flies a MEXBEST 2025 Best Boutique Hotel banner on its own homepage. That one is the hotel's claim and has not been checked at the award.2
- Where: La Barra de Colotepec, at the south end of Puerto Escondido.1
Verdict
could-visit — The building is the documented part. Alberto Kalach put eleven brick vaults a few yards off the sand, MOB Studio did the interiors, and the Guide gave the hotel a Key, which is its hotel award and carries no claim about dinner. On the kitchen there is one sentence, the Guide's, about local ingredients run through French technique, and no chef named in anything approved. So the case here is the room and the coast, and it stays that way until somebody writes about the food.