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Where to Eat, What to Do!
Restaurante El Cardenal
Traditional Mexican food. Must try this place. This restaurant has multiple locations, make sure to find the closest to you.
Contramar
Fresh seafood! This place is one of the bests. Very hard to find a table Thursday to Sunday without a reservation unless you arrive for an early lunch (in Mexico lunch is from around 2pm to 4pm)
Xel-Há Bar
Yucatan food. Ask for Sopa de lima and taco cachondo!
Fonda Mayora
The kind of place Fonda Mayor is a corner pocket of deliciousness, convenience, and supreme variety and service. Get the sopes with bone marrow and Cafe de Olla. Tati's Top 3 restaurants.
Rosetta
It's a unique gastronomic proposal in a grand Colonia Roma townhouse. Great for dinner.
Panadería Rosetta Havre
Delicious bread and coffee. Take it to go or sit and enjoy for a moment. Get the Rol de Guayaba or Bollo de Romero if you can find any, they fly away. They have two locations: Roma and Juarez.
El Parnita
Has become the real hipster place in Roma but we still enjoy the food! Go for lunch and get a mezcal and a rellenito.
Azul Historico
Lovely place in Centro Historico. Try to get a reservation otherwise usual waiting time is 45min-1hr.
El Moro
Best Churros and chocolate caliente! Original shop is in downtown but they recenty opened new spots in Roma and Condesa.
Huset
Country cooking with simple seasonal dishes cooked over fire and smoke. Romantic leafy terrace and great cocktails!
QueSeriaDeMi
Great for breakfast! Ricotta blueberry pancakes :)
Street Tamales for Breakfast
Tamal vendors can be found all over the city — just look out for someone on a street corner with steamer pots. One will be filled with all varieties of tamales (wrapped in either corn husk or banana leaf) and the others will hold hot atole drinks made from masa. A champurrado (a chocolate atole drink) and a tamal together make for a perfect and dirt cheap Mexico City breakfast.
Máximo Bistrot
We've only been for dinner but heard is great spot for lunch as well. They celebrate local ingredients and sustainability with a French-leaning Mexican menu. ($$$)
Los Danzantes Coyoacán
Good spot for lunch when you go visit the Frida Kahlo Museum. The restaurant offers a delicious overview of traditional Mexican recipes, like mole costeño and steak with black chichilo, a Oaxacan mole made with beef stock and chiles. It sources most of its organic ingredients from the chinampas, or floating gardens, at Xochimilco.
Merendero Las Lupitas
Very charming place in Coyoacan. Family-run establishment presenting soulful dishes from northern Mexico. Highlights include eggs served with a bright, citrus green sauce as well as mole and a very nice coconut flan.
Taqueria Los Parados
Los Parados has a steady local crowd during the day and at night, with patrons looking for something to eat after the bar. Favorite is the poblano con queso y arrachera [skirt steak], but the al pastor here is one of the best in the city.
El Califa
El Califa stays open until 4 a.m. One of our most recurrent spots for late night food after the bar. For our Peruvian friends your fellow Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez of Central is also a fan and is recommended by chef Gastón Acurio of Astrid y Gastón in Lima.
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
We love this museum for its architecture, experimental and site specific exhibits and that it's connected into the beautiful huge park of Chapultepec. Spend an afternoon here and at the museum of anthropology nearby. Also has a rad little store and a nice cafe.
Museo Nacional de Antropología
A must.
Castillo de Chapultepec
Take a "hike" up to the top of this beautiful vista and 18th century castle in the heart of the park. The name Chapultepec stems from the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "at the grasshopper's hill". It is the only royal castle in the Americas and was used as the official residence of a sovereign: the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I, and his consort Empress Carlota. The empire of Maximilian did not last long , but his 18th-century castle on a hill overlooking Chapultepec Park remains. Today it’s the National Museum of History, adorned in historical murals by José Clemente Orozco, Juan O’Gorman, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and displaying costumes and historical ephemera from the 16th-century on. Tati liked looking at the rooms that show exactly how the Emperor and his wife (who was married off when she was only 17 years old and moved from Belgium to Mexico) lived in the castle. The views are not so bad either.
La Ciudadela
Great artisan market where you can buy ceramics, textiles, bags, blankets and more. Literally bring an extra suitcase.
XINÚ PERFUMES
Beautiful natural perfumes and cologne made from ingredients found entirely in Central America. Gorgeous store in Polanco and lovely staff. Treat yourself!
Trajineras de Xochimilco (CANALS)
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987 and variously translated from the Aztec's Nahuatl language as "garden of flowers", the canals of Xochimilco is in an outlying borough of Mexico City. One of the best Sunday traditions is spending an afternoon floating through the canals on brightly painted, covered wooden pole boats called trajineras, having a long lunch with big beers and enjoying mariachis playing on passing barges. This is the last remnant of the vast system of causeways, canals, manmade islands and floating gardens created out of the vast lake system that once covered today's Valley of Mexico before it was blotted out by Mexico City's sprawl. It's a glimpse into not just pre-Hispanic, but pre-Aztec Mexico. This is also home to floating organic farms where the best restaurants of the DF get their organic and sustainable produce.
Frida Kahlo Museum
An absolute must. See where Kahlo lived, loved and painted. Pro tip: buy tickets in advance online to avoid a gnarly line.
Casa Estudio Luis Barragán
You must make a reservation and they only do a few folks a day. Such a special experience to see Mr. Barragan's beautiful, surreal home and studio.
Eno
Good lunch and breakfast in Roma Norte!
Tianguis Artesanal Tenanitla A. C.
Good craft market on Saturdays in a beautiful neighborhood. Walk around after and visit Diego Rivera's Studio nearby.