The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Carlotta Reforma
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- 50 Best 2025 · #2 · World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2026 · Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 4. Los Panchos
Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Taquería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 6. Tlecān
Mexican
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · World’s Best Spirits Selection
- 50 Best 2025 · #23 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2025 · Eli Martínez Bello · Bartenders' Bartender Award
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Rank 8. Kaito del Valle
Japanese Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 9. Castacán
Mexican
In a Roma Norte dining room where the kitchen speaks one language, the staff another, pork dominates with purpose. Cochinita pibil and lechon tacos—one slow-marinated and shredded, the other studded with crackling skin—arrive on proper tortillas with a arsenal of salsas ranging from habanero heat to sesame-tinged restraint. This is cooking that knows what it wants.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 12. Almara
Fusion Mexican
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 14. Hugo
Contemporary
A shaded terrace on Roma Norte draws a steady crowd to this wine bar where the bottles matter less than what lands on your plate. The bistro menu favors clean presentations and quality ingredients treated with restraint, letting traditional flavors speak without contemporary affectation. You'll return for the ease of it.
- MexBest 2023 · Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Michael Crespo
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 16. Esquina Común
Mexican
A rooftop in Condesa draped in greenery hosts Chef Ana Dolores González's tasting menu, plated for two with confident technique and personality. The daily fish arrives in green mole with plantain and fava beans; a masa tamal harbors chile-tinged fish with salsa macha. Reservations demand persistence.
- MexBest 2024 · Chef Promesa: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Ana Dolores González
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest 2025 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 18. Contramar
Seafood
A busy Roma street hosts this seafood-focused restaurant where chef Gabriela Cámara has maintained momentum since 1998. Raw scallop tostadas in salsa macha and pulpo a la Gallega—octopus with potato, olive oil, paprika—set the table before pescado a talla, its dual-sided spice rubs marking the kitchen's signature approach. The dessert trolley rounds out a meal that demands reservations.
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Gabriela Cámara
- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
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Rank 19. Maizajo
Mexican
Upstairs from a standing-room taqueria, Maizajo's dining room pairs industrial chic—I-beams and rebar furniture—with Santiago Muñoz Moctezuma's precise corn cookery, announced by house tostadas and habanero salsa. A blue corn tostada crowned with tuna and black sesame oil sits alongside a poblano tamal sweet with achiote and stewed greens, each plate revealing the grammar of the kernel.
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Taquería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Chef promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Santiago Muñóz
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Rank 20. Baldío
Mexican
Chef Max MacLean's zero-waste kitchen in Condesa sources from chinampas farms and local fisheries, purifies its own water, and prints on recycled corn husks—but the cooking is what commands attention. Fluke crudo arrives shingled with jicama and star fruit in leche de tigre; heirloom tomatoes meet sikil pak, a Yucatán sauce of toasted pepitas and charred chiles.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 21. Quintonil
New-wave Mexican
Jorge Vallejo's dining room in Polanco hums with youthful energy, its modest entrance opening onto a space where Oaxacan herbs and insects arrive with both subtlety and showmanship. Seasonal tasting menus pivot between guajillo-glazed mussels and playful finales—coconut sorbet studded with caviar—where tradition and technique coalesce into something genuinely generative.
- 50 Best 2025 · #3 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Servicio: Ganador · Premios MexBest
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Rank 22. Jowong
Korean
Jowong's streamlined Korean cooking unfolds across seafoam-green banquettes with vibrant banchan and tableside prime-rib barbecue that speaks for itself. The gimbap and banana cake show the same meticulous care that defines every plate.
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Jun Kwon
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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- 50 Best 2025 · #54 · World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Yayo Nava
- 50 Best 2026 · #2 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 27. Em
Contemporary Mexican
An intimate ground-floor room where Chef Lucho Martinez treats Mexican seafood and produce with contemporary refinement: young corn grilled and dressed in coffee-browned butter and yuzu, a tostada layered with Veracruz fish stew and caviar, a mamey dessert composed as Swiss roll and frozen tartlet. Bold flavors arrive with precision, the kind of cooking that rewards a quiet evening for two.
- MexBest 2024 · Fine Dining (Menú Degustación): Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest 2025 · Fine Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 28. Taqueria Selene
Mexican
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Rank 29. Lorea
Mexican
A quiet, multilevel room of pale wood and clean lines in Roma Norte where Chef Oswaldo Oliva channels his Spanish past through a single seasonal tasting menu that borrows from Mexico but roams further afield—fried chilies stuffed with eggplant and blue cheese, baby corn in cream with caviar. The counter seat, overlooking an immaculate kitchen, is where the evening reveals itself most clearly.
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Rank 30. Fugaz
Mexican
Fugaz trades theatricality for restraint: a bright-green storefront in Roma Norte where Chef Giuseppe Lacorazza builds dishes from a Mediterranean foundation and Mexican soil, heavy on vegetables. Raw fish meets white beans and almond-brown butter puree; gnudi float in onion broth. A cafe that thinks like a serious kitchen.
- MexBest 2025 · Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Giuseppe Lacorazza
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 31. Rosetta
Creative Mexican
Elena Reygadas's Rosetta in Roma Norte draws crowds craving Mexican cooking remade through global technique—cabbage tacos with pistachio puree and a sweet potato tamal with buttermilk sauce exemplify her appetite for unlikely flavor pairings. Dishes arrive meant for sharing, each one a small argument about what Mexican food could become.
- 50 Best 2025 · #46 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest 2023 · Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 32. Ardente Pizzeria Napoletana (Condesa)
Neapolitan Pizza
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #60 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 35. Comal Oculto
Mexican
Warm terracotta dining room with communal tables built for strangers becoming friends over comal-fired comforts. The gordita especial—chicharron and carnitas bound in masa—anchors a menu of crispy flautas and mole-draped enmoladas that justify weekend waits.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 36. Propio
Northern Mexican
- MexBest 2025 · Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Shary Romo y Alex Chávez
- MB100 2024 · Emerging Chefs of the Year · Alex Chavez y Shary Romo
- MB100 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 37. PLONK
Mexican Wine Bar
In La Condesa, a counter spirals around a tree—the kind of detail that sets the mood before you taste anything. Chef Flor Camorlinga's dishes fuse Mexican and Asian sensibilities: shrimp udon with gochujang and cheddar, bone marrow with kimchi and cotija. The doradito's crisp blue corn and raw fish sing against smoky salsa; natural wines complete the picture.
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 39. Gaba
Innovative Mexican
A Condesa café that transforms at night: bare concrete and brick give way to Chef Victor Toriz's inventive cooking, where crispy tripe meets Ocosingo cheese and roasted beet, sweetbreads nestle into chileatole cream. Seasonal plates arrive in sharable portions, bold yet approachable, paired with house cocktails and a discerning wine list—the formula of a place that knows how to stay full.
- MexBest 2025 · Chef Promesa: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Víctor Toriz
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 40. BAJEL
Contemporary Mexican
Inside the Sofitel, Bajel pairs an open kitchen with tasting menus that merge French technique and Mexican ingredients, notably a 25-ingredient white mole. The dining room commands views of Reforma while the chef orchestrates both clarity and vegetarian refinement with equal precision.
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Rank 42. Rayo
Cocktail Bar
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- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 44. Aleli Rooftop
Mexican
A rooftop in Roma Norte where smoke from the open grill drifts through the evening air. Aleli keeps its traditional Mexican menu focused—brocheta de camarón, zarandeado fish, charred potato bread—letting quality ingredients and careful technique speak. Perch at the bar to watch the cook work, order a cocktail, and find yourself pleased by both the food and what you're paying for it.
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- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 46. Filigrana
Mexican
Chef Martha Ortiz's Roma storefront marries botanical maximalism—soaring windows, living trees, purple velvet—with cooking that treats Mexican classics as design problems. A gordita arrives crispy and refined, its shredded tongue tongue topped with fried epazote; a tamal reimagined as a golden cube of fried portobello in guajillo sauce. The pozole brujo, meanwhile, lets its broth do the talking.
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Rank 47. El Pescadito Taquerías
Mexican
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Rank 48. Galea
Italian
A corner room lined in warm wood, softened by terra-cotta light and the murmur of neighborhood regulars. Galea's Italian menu stays lean—focaccia, handmade pastas offered in half portions, a daily fish in beurre blanc—but each dish carries intention. The panna cotta arrives with a subtle Mexican touch, a small gesture that defines the place: rooted in tradition, alert to where it is.
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Rank 49. Jowong
Korean
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Rank 50. MeroToro
Baja Mexican
A tree-lined corner in Condesa where Chef Jair Téllez plates the straightforward pleasures of Baja—ceviche tostadas, soft-shell crab, braised oxtail—in a dining room whose contemporary warmth matches its ambition. The cooking asks nothing of you but attention, and gives back clarity.
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Jair Téllez
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 52. Chuan Bai Wei
Sichuan Chinese
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- MexBest 2024 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Dónde comer los mejores mariscos en México
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Rank 54. Ultramarinos De Mar
Seafood
A stainless-steel corner counter in Roma Norte where Chef Lucho Martinez's seafood menu spans raw preparations and pastas, anchored by a blue corn tostada with shrimp and a clam chowder that demands every spoonful. The lobster roll, when it appears, tastes like the work of someone who understands that restraint and quality catch make the argument better than flourish.
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2025 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 56. La Cocina del Bizco
Spanish
- MexBest 2025 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 57. Siembra
Modern Mexican
- MexBest 2025 · Experiencia de maíz: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Panadería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Sándwiches en pan de la casa · Los mejores sándwiches en CDMX: dónde comerlos ahora mismo
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Rank 59. Pujol
Mexican
Enrique Olvera's kitchen marries Mexican tradition with restless invention through a seasonal tasting menu that builds toward mole madre, a dish of historical weight. Sharp service and a curated wine list of regional producers complete the experience in this polished, perpetually animated room.
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Rank 61. Marisquería Mi Compa Chava
Pacific Mexican
- MexBest Dónde comer los mejores mariscos en México
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 62. Panadería Rosetta
Bakery
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 63. Hiya
Japanese
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Rank 64. Máximo
French-influenced Mexican
Chef Eduardo Garcia's French-inflected Mexican cooking unfolds in a soaring Roma Norte space of white brick and tile, where a tasting menu pivots between caviar-topped beet tartare and abalone tostada with restraint and creativity. Desserts like black truffle ice cream and caviar flan signal a kitchen unafraid of savory flourishes.
- MB100 2024 · Restaurant of the Year
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #30 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 66. Alfil Restaurante
Mexican
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Rank 67. Paris 16
European-Inspired
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Rank 68. Bar Nino
Italian
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Rank 69. Casona Roma Norte
Contemporary
Natural light floods the dining room of Aquiles, a hotel restaurant that transcends its category with contemporary cooking grounded in Mexican ingredients. Steak tartare and tortilla soup demonstrate an uncomplicated approach, while the burger and braised short rib anchor an à la carte menu that moves between indulgence and restraint.
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Rank 74. Maleza
Mexican
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Rank 75. Sarde
Contemporary
In a Roma Norte townhouse, Sarde pursues the sea with methodical care: kampachi and mackerel cut in the Japanese style, fish and chips remade with contemporary restraint. The exposed brick dining room and compact bar suggest a place more interested in the quality of what lands on your plate than in announcing itself, which is exactly the point.
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- MexBest El Rubén · Los mejores sándwiches en CDMX: dónde comerlos ahora mismo
- MexBest BLT · Los mejores sándwiches en CDMX: dónde comerlos ahora mismo
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Rank 77. Tacos Hola El Güero
Mexican
At this counter-service taqueria open since 1968, stewed fillings simmer in ceramic pots—choose the picadillo with its seasoned ground meat and potatoes, or chorizo con papa on larger tortillas—and assemble your order with salsa, cotija, and avocado at a handful of outdoor tables in Condesa.
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Rank 78. Martínez
Contemporary
A small bistro named for its owner, Martínez channels Paris through Mexico City with a concise menu that moves between Mexican, French, and Japanese influences. Young and bustling, it's a place to order at the bar and watch the kitchen work while eating grilled chicken that lands.
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 79. Taquería El Greco
Mexican
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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- MexBest 2024 · Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Daniela Negrete Leal
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 82. Bella Aurora
Contemporary Italian
A pink-fronted Roman-style trattoria in Roma Norte, Bella Aurora moves gracefully from morning pastries through lunch and dinner without fuss or affectation. Octopus arrives lightly pickled with potato, while conchiglie with tuna ragù, chili, and Kalamata olives shows genuine care in execution. The tiramisu alone justifies lingering over dessert.
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- 50 Best 2025 · #78 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #48 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 85. Nadefo
Korean Barbecue
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Rank 87. Raíz
Contemporary Mexican
A modest storefront on a residential street conceals cooking that takes corn and its companions seriously—aguachile arrives in cuttlefish ink broth, tostadas arrive golden and precise, and a whole fish emerges with skin crackling like parchment. The kitchen moves between playful (pickled onions on a plantain molote) and restrained, each plate a small argument about what Mexican food can be.
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Rank 88. Pastelería Suiza
Swiss Bakery
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Rank 89. Er Erre
Global
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Rank 91. Sartoria
Italian
Sartoria's industrial space fills nightly with young couples drawn to carefully plated Italian pastas, especially delicate tortellacci crowned with creamy burrata. The modest menu prizes ingredient quality over ambition, finishing reliably with tiramisu.
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Rank 93. Expendio de Maíz
Mexican
A cramped sidewalk kitchen in Roma Norte where heirloom corn, nixtamalized in-house, becomes tortillas and sopes molded to order and dressed with seasonal ingredients and tableside salsas that crackle with heat. Four communal tables, no menu, cash only, and a waitlist that forms immediately—a place where the cook decides what you eat, and you're better for it.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best 2026 · #13 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 98. Taquería Orinoco
Late-Night Mexican
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Rank 100. Siembra Tortillería
Modern Mexican
A sidewalk operation in Polanco where Karina Mejía and Israel Montero turn heirloom corn tortillas into vehicles for charred fish al pastor and arrachera crowned with crispy potatoes. The kitchen moves fast and portions run generous, which explains why the counter stays crowded and the tacos disappear quickly.