Restaurants of the World: Mexico

Building this one felt less like assembling a house and more like putting together a diorama, each section is a little vignette. The prep kitchen goes together first, a tight little counter with a trompo rotisserie stacked with meat, an extractor hood above it, and a small sword prop for slicing tacos al pastor. Then comes the dining side with a clever two piece chair design built from a bracket and an upside down 2x2 jumper that pivots on a nipple tile so the chairs can actually swivel. The roof is where the personality lands, a stepped curved shape finished with a chimney and those papel picado accent tiles running along the edge.

The standout piece is a new minifigure torso print for the taquera, done in dark pink and dark brown with a bright green apron and matching bright green hands standing in for food handling gloves, a detail I have not seen used quite that way before. New Elementary's part audit found no brand new molds in the set, but did flag that 150 of its 154 unique elements were already available on Pick a Brick, so if you cannot get the GWP itself, you can chase most of the look piece by piece. For 326 pieces, the mix of a rotisserie build, a printed exclusive minifigure, and genuine roofline detailing is a lot of value packed into a small box.