A London restaurant group known for fusing Mexican flavors with Japanese knife work is crossing the Atlantic, and it's picking West Palm Beach over Miami or New York for its first stop. Los Mochis, the Mexican-Japanese concept born in Notting Hill, will open an international-debut restaurant inside Phillips Point in winter 2027, with a second U.S. location expected to follow in Los Angeles in 2028.
Markus Thesleff, founder and CEO of the Thesleff Group, said he initially thought mixing Japanese and Mexican cuisine sounded crazy, according to Restaurant Online. London proved the pairing could work, he said, and he now believes West Palm Beach is the perfect place to begin the brand's American expansion. Related Ross, the developer reshaping downtown West Palm Beach's skyline, is a partner in the project.
The West Palm Beach restaurant will sit inside Phillips Point, the waterfront office complex Related Ross is pouring $120 million into modernizing, per S. Florida Business & Wealth. The redesign, led by architecture firms Roger Ferris + Partners and HLW, swaps the complex's landmark pink exterior for white, modernizes retail storefronts, adds an outdoor dining terrace, and includes a $1 million investment in adjacent Trinity Park. Stephen Ross acquired the 1980s-era twin towers in 2021 for $282 million.
A Hidden Counter and Sweeping Water Views
Diners at the new outpost will overlook the Intracoastal Waterway, Palm Beach island, Flagler Drive and the Atlantic Ocean, the restaurant has said, according to the report. Tucked inside will be a hidden 12-seat omakase restaurant, mirroring a format Thesleff Group already runs in London — Juno operates within the original Los Mochis Notting Hill, while Luna sits inside the group's larger Los Mochis London City venue. The Florida location will retain Los Mochis's Japanese-Mexican cuisine, hospitality style and cultural programming, but with design and a wider menu tailored specifically to its waterfront setting.
Los Mochis has promised further details on design, chefs, menu and programming in the coming months. One signature feature already confirmed for West Palm Beach is TENrei, a bi-monthly ceremonial meal in which chefs butcher a whole, sustainably sourced Atlantic bluefin tuna using traditional Japanese knives before serving it across a multi-course menu, according to Restaurant Online. Bluefin tuna was reclassified in 2021 by the IUCN as a species of least concern, which the outlet notes has fueled a resurgence of the fish on high-end UK menus.
Entirely Gluten-Free, Entirely Nut-Free
Under executive chef Leonard Tanyag, Los Mochis runs a completely gluten-free and tree-nut-free kitchen across every menu item, with vegetarian dishes intentionally prepared vegan, as reported by The Standard. That dietary model has defined the brand since it opened in Notting Hill in 2021 before expanding in April 2024 into London's financial district with a 14,000-square-foot, 420-capacity rooftop venue at 100 Liverpool Street in Broadgate. The ninth-floor London City outpost also features a 3,000-square-foot terrace overlooking St Paul's Cathedral.
Thesleff, who studied in the United States, has also run Middle Eastern restaurant brands including Okku and Claw, and the Thesleff Group's broader portfolio includes Sale e Pepe in Knightsbridge and the Viajante87 cocktail bar in Notting Hill. Los Mochis itself has leaned into social impact alongside its growth: since 2022 the group has partnered with London-based food redistribution charity The Felix Project, donating one meal for every meal purchased and surpassing one million meals donated as of July 2025.
Why Related Ross Keeps Betting on Marquee Restaurants
Los Mochis's arrival fits a pattern Related Ross has repeated across its West Palm Beach portfolio. The firm previously landed luxury Greek seafood concept Estiatorio Milos for the ground floor of its 25-story One Flagler office tower in early 2025, a move TCRE Tower Commercial Real Estate described as transformative. Related Ross is separately investing $13 million to convert the 107-year-old Hibiscus House into a 250-seat restaurant.
Phillips Point itself is home to private banks, financial institutions, law firms and global businesses, according to Los Mochis, and the restaurant group has described the complex as sitting at the heart of West Palm Beach's growing business district. The 460,000-square-foot office complex maintains more than 90% occupancy and recently signed financial and analytics firms Solomon Partners and MSCI, even as longtime anchor tenant Greenberg Traurig prepares its move to 15 CityPlace, Related Ross's newer tower.
Related Ross founder Stephen Ross has committed more than $10 billion in planned real estate and mixed-use investments across Palm Beach County, with a broader planned development vision spanning six million square feet of commercial, residential and retail property, as part of a push to establish the region as Wall Street South, per The Real Deal. With Los Mochis joining Estiatorio Milos as another restaurant project in downtown West Palm Beach, the area's transformation from office hub to culinary destination shows little sign of slowing.
