A Japanese-inspired stone garden is the focal point of chef Enrique Olvera’s Pujol restaurant in Mexico City, while the sunken bar allows servers to have direct eye contact with patrons.

Guests enter the restaurant through a French oak and steel gate into a pergola-filled garden.

Designers merged two rooms to create the main dining room and lowered the windows so diners are closely connected to the outdoors.

Sconces made of black glass double as art pieces, bathing walls with uniform light in a wide halo.

The midcentury-inspired space boasts wood and leather chairs that reference those of Cuban-Mexican designer Clara Porset.

Steel-framed windows and glass sliders bring the outdoors in.