Mexico City, Mexico - After being held for two consecutive years in Peru, "Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants" awards will be moving to Mexico City in 2015.

The move marks both a physical and figurative shift that highlights what top chefs around the world are predicting will become the most influential cuisine around the world: the foods and flavors of Mexico.

For the past few years, Peruvian cuisine has been the darling of the Latin American food world, with international chefs becoming enamored with the rich, cross-pollination of Japanese, Chinese, and South American flavors.

Mole Poblamo: Mexico's national food dish.

The Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants is an offshoot of Restaurant magazine’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. Last year it was the Peruvian capital of Lima that was chosen to host the inaugural event.

At a chef’s forum held in New York last month, Mexican cuisine was top of mind among influential US food figures including chef April Bloomfield and Food & Wine magazine’s restaurant editor Kate Krader.

"It’s delicious, it’s soulful, it’s local. They don’t buy any of their produce from anywhere else, it comes from their plot of land and it’s super delicious, complex, diverse, and spicy," Bloomfield had said.

On an international scale, Krader noted that the pendulum is swinging away from Nordic and Scandinavian cuisine towards Latin America, a decidedly different culinary landscape punctuated by bold, complex flavors and spices.

Mexico currently has 10 dining addresses listed on Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants that includes Enrique Olvera’s Pujol, the highest-ranking Mexican eatery in the No. 6 spot.