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Mexico City
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Mexico City Restaurants
Most Popular Hotels in Mexico City:
Campos Eliseos 204, 11560
Amberes No. 64, Col. Juárez, 06600
Paseo De La Reforma No. 500, 06600
Avenides Cameron Sabalo S/N, 82110
Mexico's varied food scene comprises a mouth-watering mix of cosmopolitan influences, from bistros, diners and international fast food chains to simple local cuisine. Restaurant prices are subject to 15% VAT (Value Added Tax). A tip of 10-15%, depending on the quality of the service, is customary. Unless in a major hotel chain, expect to pay the bill in Mexican Pesos.
The restaurants below have been classed into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over M$400)
$$$ (MS$300 to MS$400)
$$ (MS$200 to MS$300)
$ (up to MS$200)
Prices given are for a three-course meal and a bottle of house wine.
The restaurants below have been classed into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over M$400)
$$$ (MS$300 to MS$400)
$$ (MS$200 to MS$300)
$ (up to MS$200)
Prices given are for a three-course meal and a bottle of house wine.
Gastronomic
Au Pied de Cochon
This fashionable 24-hour bistro in the Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental (see Hotels) has been a hit with Mexico's beautiful people since it opened. Modelled closely on the Parisian original, the restaurant offers sumptuous seafood platters, including oysters and lobster, as well as steaks, pigs' trotters and snails prepared by French chefs. The chocolate profiteroles are delicious. Décor is art nouveau and the service is pleasant. An extensive wine list is available.
Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental, Avenida Campos Eliseos 216, Polanco
Tel: (55) 5327 7756.
Website: www.ichotelsgroup.com
Price: $$$$
This fashionable 24-hour bistro in the Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental (see Hotels) has been a hit with Mexico's beautiful people since it opened. Modelled closely on the Parisian original, the restaurant offers sumptuous seafood platters, including oysters and lobster, as well as steaks, pigs' trotters and snails prepared by French chefs. The chocolate profiteroles are delicious. Décor is art nouveau and the service is pleasant. An extensive wine list is available.
Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental, Avenida Campos Eliseos 216, Polanco
Tel: (55) 5327 7756.
Website: www.ichotelsgroup.com
Price: $$$$
Hacienda de los Morales
This upscale foodie extravagance owes much to its executive Chef Alejandro Heredia Resendiz, one of Mexico City's most celebrated gastronomic talents. Located in the heart of Polanco, the Hacienda de los Morales is a favourite with a star-studded clientele who flock to this grand 16th-century colonial mansion and its torch-lit beamed dining room. Expect top-notch fusion cuisine and impeccable service delivered to the sound of soothing piano music.
Vázquez de Mella 525 Col. Del Bosque Polanco
Tel. (55) 5283 3054/5.
Website: www.haciendadelosmorales.com
Price: $$$$
This upscale foodie extravagance owes much to its executive Chef Alejandro Heredia Resendiz, one of Mexico City's most celebrated gastronomic talents. Located in the heart of Polanco, the Hacienda de los Morales is a favourite with a star-studded clientele who flock to this grand 16th-century colonial mansion and its torch-lit beamed dining room. Expect top-notch fusion cuisine and impeccable service delivered to the sound of soothing piano music.
Vázquez de Mella 525 Col. Del Bosque Polanco
Tel. (55) 5283 3054/5.
Website: www.haciendadelosmorales.com
Price: $$$$
Les Moustaches
Understated, elegant surroundings characterise this excellent European-style restaurant where French cuisine has been attentively served for almost 30 years. Housed in a grand chandelier-decked mansion with an attractive plant-filled patio on the ground floor, Les Moustaches also has stylish second floor private rooms for banquets. Expect sublime flavours using fresh, sumptuous produce such as the restaurant's famous mussel soup, duck a l'orange and spectacular pistachio soufflé.
Río Sena 88, Cuauhtemoc
Tel: (55) 5533 3390 or 5525 1265.
Website: www.lesmoustaches.com.mx
Price: $$$$
Understated, elegant surroundings characterise this excellent European-style restaurant where French cuisine has been attentively served for almost 30 years. Housed in a grand chandelier-decked mansion with an attractive plant-filled patio on the ground floor, Les Moustaches also has stylish second floor private rooms for banquets. Expect sublime flavours using fresh, sumptuous produce such as the restaurant's famous mussel soup, duck a l'orange and spectacular pistachio soufflé.
Río Sena 88, Cuauhtemoc
Tel: (55) 5533 3390 or 5525 1265.
Website: www.lesmoustaches.com.mx
Price: $$$$
Business
Cafe del Bosque
With its location overlooking a lake with one of the best views of Chapultepec Forest, its proximity to the business district and excellent menu of international and Mexican dishes it's not surprising that this is always a popular restaurant with business people. Be sure to book for an outside table with a view of the lake.
Chapultepec Park
Tel: (55) 5516 4214.
Price: $$
With its location overlooking a lake with one of the best views of Chapultepec Forest, its proximity to the business district and excellent menu of international and Mexican dishes it's not surprising that this is always a popular restaurant with business people. Be sure to book for an outside table with a view of the lake.
Chapultepec Park
Tel: (55) 5516 4214.
Price: $$
Los Naranjos
For upmarket, nouvelle Mexican cuisine in comfortable and beautifully decorated surroundings, Los Naranjos takes some beating. Set within the heart of the Polanco district, it provides a creative take on traditional Mexican cuisine to offer beautifully presented signature dishes served with true aplomb, such as tequila-marinated shrimps with ancho chilli and prickly pear, chicken rolls with curd cheese, and fried plantain with a red mole sauce, and, for dessert, guava stuffed with guanabana mousse.
Lopez de Vega 334, Polanco
Tel: (55) 5545 0755.
Price: $$
For upmarket, nouvelle Mexican cuisine in comfortable and beautifully decorated surroundings, Los Naranjos takes some beating. Set within the heart of the Polanco district, it provides a creative take on traditional Mexican cuisine to offer beautifully presented signature dishes served with true aplomb, such as tequila-marinated shrimps with ancho chilli and prickly pear, chicken rolls with curd cheese, and fried plantain with a red mole sauce, and, for dessert, guava stuffed with guanabana mousse.
Lopez de Vega 334, Polanco
Tel: (55) 5545 0755.
Price: $$
San Angel Inn
Diners overlook a pleasant leafy courtyard in this former hacienda where a Euro-Mexican menu is served in relaxed style. Situated in the southern colonial district of San Angel, the restaurant's signature dishes include trout, skewered prawns and crepes with huitlacoche (corn fungus, a Mexican delicacy). The margaritas are some of Mexico City's finest.
Diego Rivera 50, corner of Altavista, San Angel.
Tel: (55) 5616 1402/2222.
Website: www.sanangelinn.com
Price: $$$$
Diners overlook a pleasant leafy courtyard in this former hacienda where a Euro-Mexican menu is served in relaxed style. Situated in the southern colonial district of San Angel, the restaurant's signature dishes include trout, skewered prawns and crepes with huitlacoche (corn fungus, a Mexican delicacy). The margaritas are some of Mexico City's finest.
Diego Rivera 50, corner of Altavista, San Angel.
Tel: (55) 5616 1402/2222.
Website: www.sanangelinn.com
Price: $$$$
Trendy
Aguila y Sol
Owned by high-profile TV chef Martha Ortiz, this chichi food joint has sent fireworks through Mexico's City culinary scene. In stark contrast to the elegant, minimalist style of the dining room the food is jam-packed with flavour and fun, from Ortiz's trademark margaritas made with black volcanic ash to the arty fideo-en-mole (vermicelli sautéed in spicy black mole).
229 Emilio Castelar, third floor
Polanco
Tel: (55) 5281 8354.
Price: $$$
Owned by high-profile TV chef Martha Ortiz, this chichi food joint has sent fireworks through Mexico's City culinary scene. In stark contrast to the elegant, minimalist style of the dining room the food is jam-packed with flavour and fun, from Ortiz's trademark margaritas made with black volcanic ash to the arty fideo-en-mole (vermicelli sautéed in spicy black mole).
229 Emilio Castelar, third floor
Polanco
Tel: (55) 5281 8354.
Price: $$$
Ixchel
A favourite haunt among Mexico City's creative media types, Ixchel is situated within a beautiful early 20th-century mansion in the heart of bohemian Roma. Hang out in the terrace bar downstairs or join the ultra-cool in the stylish blue velvet lounge. Pan-Asian food is served in an elegant upstairs restaurant with leather banquettes and seats under opulent chandeliers. Dishes include Thai chicken salad, Oriental salmon fillet on bok choy and the crème brûlée served with a fabulous selection of world wines.
Medellin 65, Roma
Tel: (55) 5208 4055.
Price: $$$
A favourite haunt among Mexico City's creative media types, Ixchel is situated within a beautiful early 20th-century mansion in the heart of bohemian Roma. Hang out in the terrace bar downstairs or join the ultra-cool in the stylish blue velvet lounge. Pan-Asian food is served in an elegant upstairs restaurant with leather banquettes and seats under opulent chandeliers. Dishes include Thai chicken salad, Oriental salmon fillet on bok choy and the crème brûlée served with a fabulous selection of world wines.
Medellin 65, Roma
Tel: (55) 5208 4055.
Price: $$$
Los Danzantes
Renowned for its exquisite, authentic flavours, Los Danzantes is a rare find in the southern suburb of Coyoacán - a Mexican restaurant with gritty tradition. Robust, yet stylish cooking uses age-old recipes to create local delicacies. Grab a table on the covered terrace, which overlooks the pretty main square and make the most of the sluggish service to people-watch to your heart's content.
Plaza Jardin Centenario 12, Coyoacán
Tel: 52 55 5658 6054
Website: www.losdanzantes.com
Price: $$
Renowned for its exquisite, authentic flavours, Los Danzantes is a rare find in the southern suburb of Coyoacán - a Mexican restaurant with gritty tradition. Robust, yet stylish cooking uses age-old recipes to create local delicacies. Grab a table on the covered terrace, which overlooks the pretty main square and make the most of the sluggish service to people-watch to your heart's content.
Plaza Jardin Centenario 12, Coyoacán
Tel: 52 55 5658 6054
Website: www.losdanzantes.com
Price: $$
Budget
Café Tacuba
Since first-throwing open its doors in 1912, this Mexican institution in the Centro Histórico has become one of Mexico City's legendary food joints. Not only is it a great place to chow down on tasty Mexican fare, but it also a feast for the eyes, with painted archways, colourful tiles, stained-glass windows and brass lamps. Choose from inexpensive tostadas, enchiladas, chiles rellenos, tamales and mole. The restaurant sponsors Mexico's popular rock band of the same name - so keep your eyes peeled for low-key celebrity diners.
Tacuba 28, Centro Histórico
Tel: (55) 5512 8482.
Price: $
Since first-throwing open its doors in 1912, this Mexican institution in the Centro Histórico has become one of Mexico City's legendary food joints. Not only is it a great place to chow down on tasty Mexican fare, but it also a feast for the eyes, with painted archways, colourful tiles, stained-glass windows and brass lamps. Choose from inexpensive tostadas, enchiladas, chiles rellenos, tamales and mole. The restaurant sponsors Mexico's popular rock band of the same name - so keep your eyes peeled for low-key celebrity diners.
Tacuba 28, Centro Histórico
Tel: (55) 5512 8482.
Price: $
Casa de Azulejos
Sanborns is a nationwide chain of family restaurants with a shop attached where Mexican dishes, together with Tex-Mex and international fare is served alongside books, magazines, CDs and sweets. Casa de Azulejos (House of Tiles) is a flagship Sanborns location, boasting an eye-catching exterior covered in Mexican blue and white tiles in the city's Centro Histórico district. Choose from soup, salads, enchiladas and tacos in this fine 16th-century former mansion around a Moorish fountain in an airy courtyard enlivened by bold frescoes.
Avenida Madero 4, Centro Histórico
Tel: (55) 518 6676.
Price: $
Sanborns is a nationwide chain of family restaurants with a shop attached where Mexican dishes, together with Tex-Mex and international fare is served alongside books, magazines, CDs and sweets. Casa de Azulejos (House of Tiles) is a flagship Sanborns location, boasting an eye-catching exterior covered in Mexican blue and white tiles in the city's Centro Histórico district. Choose from soup, salads, enchiladas and tacos in this fine 16th-century former mansion around a Moorish fountain in an airy courtyard enlivened by bold frescoes.
Avenida Madero 4, Centro Histórico
Tel: (55) 518 6676.
Price: $
Saks
Mexico isn't blessed with an abundance of veggie options so this is busy all-day-long. Located on bustling Avenida Insurgentes, Saks has vaulted ceilings and medieval wall-paintings and is renowned for its fresh exotic fruit juices and enormous portions of healthy food. A menu combines Mexican and international dishes such as a huge house salad of artichokes, palm hearts, asparagus, portobello mushrooms and feta cheese. Another favourite is squash flower, nopal cactus and mushroom chilli, a hearty offering seasoned to taste.
Avenida Insurgentes Sur 1641, Florida
Tel: (55) 5598 6433 or 5563 3402.
Price: $
Mexico isn't blessed with an abundance of veggie options so this is busy all-day-long. Located on bustling Avenida Insurgentes, Saks has vaulted ceilings and medieval wall-paintings and is renowned for its fresh exotic fruit juices and enormous portions of healthy food. A menu combines Mexican and international dishes such as a huge house salad of artichokes, palm hearts, asparagus, portobello mushrooms and feta cheese. Another favourite is squash flower, nopal cactus and mushroom chilli, a hearty offering seasoned to taste.
Avenida Insurgentes Sur 1641, Florida
Tel: (55) 5598 6433 or 5563 3402.
Price: $
Personal Recommendations
Azul y Oro
Chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita trawls kitchens country-wide to seek out unusual traditional Mexican dishes which he then re-creates in his refectory diner. Though his four seasonal menus include special dishes that can bump up the cost, a daily three-course lunch menu is a highly affordable option - and a popular student choice.
Centro Cultural Universitario
Ciudad Universitaria
Tel: 5623 3500.
Price: $$
Chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita trawls kitchens country-wide to seek out unusual traditional Mexican dishes which he then re-creates in his refectory diner. Though his four seasonal menus include special dishes that can bump up the cost, a daily three-course lunch menu is a highly affordable option - and a popular student choice.
Centro Cultural Universitario
Ciudad Universitaria
Tel: 5623 3500.
Price: $$
Kohinoor
Finding an Indian restaurant in Mexico City is extremely difficult. However, this authentic Indian diner in the city's north is the real deal for curry lovers and serves delicious, richly-flavoured dishes with lightly spiced fluffy rice. A bright and clean décor features a glass-fronted kitchen, thus allowing diners to watch chefs at work. Choose from a menu of meat, chicken and vegetarian options that include tandoori special dishes, breads and chutneys.
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena 999, Sante Fe
Tel: (55) 5292 1292.
Price: $
Finding an Indian restaurant in Mexico City is extremely difficult. However, this authentic Indian diner in the city's north is the real deal for curry lovers and serves delicious, richly-flavoured dishes with lightly spiced fluffy rice. A bright and clean décor features a glass-fronted kitchen, thus allowing diners to watch chefs at work. Choose from a menu of meat, chicken and vegetarian options that include tandoori special dishes, breads and chutneys.
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena 999, Sante Fe
Tel: (55) 5292 1292.
Price: $
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