Brick Hotel gathers for Día de Muertos: a candlelit celebration
For its second year, the Mexico City hotel reimagines the Day of the Dead tradition through a family style dinner that moves through three chapters of life, death and memory, set against seasonal blooms and the flicker of candlelight.
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Candles burn in ornate metal candelabras, their flames casting amber light across a table dressed for remembrance. Brick Hotel gathered guests for the second edition of its Día de Muertos dinner, an evening structured around the Mexican tradition of honouring those who have passed. The table itself became the medium: a carefully considered progression through three chapters, childhood, life, and death, each marked by a different course, each returning the gathered to the cycle that binds us all.
Flor de Olvido, the florist behind the evening’s visual narrative, reimagined the Mexican tablescape through seasonal blooms and a Catrina inspired headpiece that anchored the space between reverence and celebration. The candlelit setting invited guests to move through the menu as one might move through memory itself, each dish a moment in a larger conversation about continuity and loss.
The dinner drew on thoughtful collaborations to shape the experience. Veuve Clicquot and Volcán Tequila contributed to an evening that refused to separate sustenance from ceremony, the personal from the shared. Guests sat as family, whether bound by blood or by the simple human act of gathering around a table where conversation, food and the presence of others become a form of remembrance.
What emerged was an occasion that honoured not only what has passed, but what remains: the bonds formed across a table, the rituals that ground us, the seasons that return. Until next year, when Brick Hotel will gather again.
Imagery courtesy of Brick Hotel (@brick_hotel).