Owned by couple Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores, Quintonil started as a menú del día restaurant and progressed to fine dining.

Quintonil offers both à la carte[5] and a nine-course tasting menu selections[6] that change seasonally;[7] diners can pay an additional fee for wine pairing.

[13][15] Tiffany Yannetta of The Infatuation recommended the tasting menu, calling it "entertaining" and highlighted the Entomophagy Festival, and suggested trying the restaurant's experiments like the bluefin tuna with frozen wasabi powder.

[5] Adrián Duchateau wrote for Afar that Quintonil cooks with local varieties of vegetables and herbs "as part of the progressive and sustainable eating program it so elegantly advocates".

[27] In the 2023 edition, Restaurant stated, "Quintonil is the setting for chef Jorge Vallejo's boundary-pushing Mexican cuisine and his wife Alejandra Flores' remarkable hospitality.

The guide added: "[t]he elegant cuisine is an enticing melding of excellent local product, impressive execution, and great creativity to produce refined compositions".

The statuette's design is inspired by the pre-Hispanic sculpture The Young Woman of Amajac, in recognition of the significant contributions of indigenous women to national and international gastronomy.