The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near El Bajío
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Rank 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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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- 50 Best 2025 · Legend of the List Award
- 50 Best 2025 · #51 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #20 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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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 9. 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 10. 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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- 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 13. 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 14. 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 16. 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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- 50 Best 2025 · #54 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #2 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Cocktail Bar
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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 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. 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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Rank 22. 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 23. 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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- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
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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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- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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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 28. 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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- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 31. 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 32. 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 33. 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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Rank 34. Bakéa
Basque French
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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 37. Gia
American Italian
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 38. 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 39. Ardente Pizzeria Napoletana (Condesa)
Neapolitan Pizza
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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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- 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 43. Almara
Fusion Mexican
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Rank 44. 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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- 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 47. Taquería El Vilsito
Mexican
A taquería operating from an auto repair shop after dark, all industrial clatter and fluorescent glow, where al pastor arrives as a towering stack of tender pork spinning down from the trompo, hitting soft corn tortillas with pineapple, cilantro, and onion. The gringa variation—same meat splayed across a cheese-slicked flour tortilla—is a greasy, necessary mess.
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Taquería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 50. 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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Rank 51. 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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- MexBest Grilled Buffalo Sandwich · Los mejores sándwiches en CDMX: dónde comerlos ahora mismo
- MexBest Grilled Cheese · Los mejores sándwiches en CDMX: dónde comerlos ahora mismo
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Rank 53. Rincón Tarasco
Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Taquería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 54. Margarita
Mexican
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 56. 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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Rank 58. 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 59. 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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- 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 63. Caracol de Mar
Mexican
A spiral staircase rises to soaring windows and vaulted ceilings where seafood and contemporary Mexican cooking meet casual group dining. The tostada de coco—blue corn, avocado, chintextle, coconut—balances sweet and savory with architectural precision; chocolate tamale with hoja santa ice cream closes the meal with equal confidence. Hipódromo's creative energy is felt here as much as tasted.
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Rank 65. 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 66. El Hidalguense
Rustic Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Taquería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 67. Carmela y Sal
Mexican
A bright, modern dining room where Chef Gabriela Ruiz Lugo channels her Tabasco childhood through dishes of distinct personality: broccoli burnished with black piquín chile and cheese, short rib drowning in chirmol, a sauce so generous it demands bread. The staff moves with genuine warmth, and the food arrives with playful confidence—this is cooking rooted in a place, told with style.
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Rank 68. El Turix
Yucatan-Style Mexican
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 69. 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 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Dónde comer los mejores mariscos en México
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Rank 71. Mätre
Sourdough Bakery
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Rank 73. Barbacoa Los 3 Reyes
Mexican
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Rank 74. Sud 777
Mexican
Chef Edgar Núñez's sprawling dining room in Pedregal trades pretense for understated elegance, with dark wood and soaring ceilings that frame both refined starters and ambitious tasting menus. His suckling pig arrives with pibil spices and pineapple, the kind of dish that justifies a pilgrimage across the city.
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Servicio: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #59 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 76. 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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Rank 77. LINA
Contemporary Mexican
Chef Mariana Villegas Martínez works an open kitchen in this Roma Norte seafront, where contemporary Mexican cooking emerges from seasonal ingredients and careful technique rather than flourish. A charred squash with smoky pine nut sauce and chicken with roasted peaches and mole coloradito show the thoughtfulness beneath the straightforward plating. Warmth runs through both the room and the plate.
- MexBest 2024 · Chef promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Mariana Villegas
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 78. Costa Guadiana
Contemporary Mexican
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Rank 79. La Barra de Fran
Spanish
A taxidermied bull's head announces the Spanish mission at the entrance: this is a tapas bar built for the conviviality of shared plates. Patatas bravas, garlicked shrimp, anchovies on toasted bread, and creamy flan arrive in portions meant for company, creating the kind of evening where strangers become conspirators over small bites and wine.
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Chef Ana Somsri Raksamran's courtyard restaurant, sheltered by bamboo and hanging vines, delivers regionally varied Thai cooking with herbs harvested to order. The gaeng kiew wan arrives bright and herbaceous; the mango sticky rice with coconut ice cream justifies the pilgrimage alone.
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 82. Hanky-Panky
Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Gina Barbachano
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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A second-story dining room warmed by a built-in charcoal grill, with refuge on a spacious patio if the heat becomes too much. The tacos al carbón arrive with thinly sliced meat expertly grilled and diced, while the arrachera—pink at its center—justifies its reputation. Vegetables hold their own here too: poblano, nopales, mushrooms treated with the same care as the proteins.
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Rank 85. 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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Rank 87. Rayo
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 88. El Pescadito Taquerías
Mexican
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Rank 89. 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 90. Botánico
Contemporary Mexican
The modest street entrance opens onto an inland garden: tall cacti frame a fish-stocked pond, and the kitchen moves between ceviches—serrano and pistachio with shrimp—and pasta studded with blue crab and anchovy breadcrumb. Dessert takes strange turns, as when Kalamata olives crash the crème brûlée. A place where strangers feel like insiders.
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Rank 91. Los Milanesos Taqueria
Mexican
Behind an orange awning in a residential corner of the city, Los Milanesos fries thin-sliced pork cutlets until they're golden and tender, then piles them onto corn tortillas with lime and house-made salsas that justify the pilgrimage alone. The dining room barely exists—you're meant to eat standing or at a handful of cramped tables—but the tacos are why you came.
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Rank 95. Molino "El Pujol"
Mexican
A sliver of a room in La Condesa devoted almost entirely to kitchen, where corn is nixtamalized daily and transformed into tamales, tacos, and chilaquiles with quiet precision. The tamal de calabaza arrives as a steamed bundle of yellow masa studded with pumpkin, accompanied by a small salad dressed with candied seeds—the kind of dish that justifies a neighborhood's faith in a place.
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Rank 96. Hunan - San Angel
Chinese
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Rank 97. Panadería Rosetta
Bakery
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
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Rank 99. 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 100. Comedor Jacinta
Mexican
Chef Edgar Núñez's cozy neighborhood spot channels childhood memories through simple, generous dishes built on corn and molcajete cookery. Tostadas of scallop and marrow tacos arrive at prices that feel like an accident, with flan de cajeta providing the proper farewell.