The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near El Bajío
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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 4. 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 5. 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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- 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 9. 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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- 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 11. 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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- 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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Rank 13. Taqueria Los Parados
Mexican
A standing-room operation in Roma Sur that's been grilling meat over charcoal since 1965, with nothing but metal shelving for a counter and no concession to comfort. The bistec arrives medium-well with a whisper of smoke, the costilla paper-thin and cooked through, and the al pastor tacos arrive in that perfect state where technique becomes invisible.
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Rank 14. 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 17. 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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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 19. 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 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. 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 24. 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 25. 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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- 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 27. Pargot
Mexican
In a spare Roma Norte dining room, Chef Alexis Ayala works from a tightly edited menu that moves from delicate to substantial with the precision of a controlled argument. Baja fish arrives as kebbe crudo under grasshopper XO sauce; leeks transform into pâté on tostadas dusted with chili ash. The cooking is rooted in Mexico but restless, always reaching for the next small revelation.
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- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 31. Tacos Los Alexis
Mexican
The covered sidewalk tables at Alexis Ayala's Roma Norte taqueria offer a front-row seat to carefully considered preparations: volcanoes and costras alongside tacos built on excellent yellow masa, their fillings—huitlacoche, crisped cheese—arranged with quiet intelligence. It is, in short, a taqueria that takes itself seriously without announcing the fact.
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Rank 32. Panadería Gala
European
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Rank 33. Tamales Doña Emi
Mexican
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- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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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. Voraz
Contemporary Mexican
A corner gastropub in Roma Sur housed in a converted mechanic's shop serves inventive Mexican small plates with industrial-casual style. Chaya-leaf churros and wood-fired chicken with bitter orange showcase refinement without pretension.
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Rank 38. Café Arixi
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 40. Vigneron
Contemporary French
A sliver of a room in Roma Norte where chef Aram Abisahi's French-inflected cooking—roasted carrots with stracciatella, crispy polenta with stone crab—rewards shared plates and close attention. The wine list sprawls unexpectedly wide for such an intimate, dark space.
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Rank 42. Pancracia
Mexican Bakery
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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 44. Roselle
Italian
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Rank 45. El Jarocho
Mexican
A former tortillería in Roma Norte where three generations have perfected the guisado taco—slow-cooked proteins and vegetables in mole-dark sauces, the pork flank with morita chile particularly worth the visit. Fresh tortillas arrive at the table still warm, the room spare and purposeful, service unhurried.
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Rank 47. Cantina El Sella
Mexican
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Rank 48. Pizza Félix
Neapolitan Pizza
- MexBest El conteo definitivo: Las mejores 6 pizzerías de la CDMX
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 49. Tacos Del Valle
Mexican
A retro diner setup of bar stools and mirrors frames this Roma Norte taqueria's straightforward mission: meat cooked on the trompo, spun near open flame until charred outside and tender within, then plated on corn tortillas for you to dress with three salsas in squeeze bottles. Other tacos arrive more elaborately garnished, but the stripped-down versions reveal the craft.
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Rank 50. Rayo
Cocktail Bar
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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 52. Por Siempre Vegana Taquería
Vegan Mexican
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Rank 53. 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 54. Migrante
International
An open kitchen in Roma Norte hums with the restless energy of a young brigade plating contemporary dishes that drift between continents—crispy prawns lacquered with citrus, charcoal-grilled bass yielding to yuzu beurre blanc. The warm service and stylish room suggest a kitchen that knows its ambitions and executes them without fanfare.
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Rank 59. 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 60. Ardente Pizzeria Napoletana (Condesa)
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 61. Gia
American Italian
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 62. Cariñito Tacos
Southeast Asian Mexican
At a counter in Roma Norte, a taqueria that marries Cantonese technique with the taco format: confit pork belly with hoisin and sriracha in flour tortillas, crispy siu yuk with nam jim and pickled vegetables. Everything is fired to order in a kitchen you can watch, then eaten standing or outside on corn husks instead of plates—a small gesture that captures the place's refusal of expectation.
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Rank 63. La 89
Mexican
A narrow taquería on a Roma Norte side street where carne asada hits the grill to order, emerging with a dark crust and restrained seasoning. Quesabirria arrives crisp-edged and tender, the consommé optional but welcome; tortas are built with equal care on bread that tastes like it matters. Plastic stools and a no-frills room mean you're here for the work, not the comfort.
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- MexBest 2023 · Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Pako Cortés
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 65. 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 66. Travieso
Natural Wine Bar
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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 69. 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 71. El Tigre Silencioso
Creative
A courtyard ringed by ancient trees opens onto a cantina where ivy climbs stone columns and the kitchen works visible behind the bar. The empanadas arrive golden and fat with smoked fish and pressed pork; the octopus stew crackles with chicharrón and menudo. Creative without artifice—a place that knows its ingredients and trusts them to speak.
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 73. Oropel
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 74. 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 75. Kaito del Valle
Japanese Cocktail Bar
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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- MexBest 2023 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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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 80. 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 81. Taquería Orinoco
Late-Night Mexican
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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 85. 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 86. The Lamb
British
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Rank 87. Çuina
Mexican
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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 91. 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 92. 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 94. 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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Rank 95. 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 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 98. 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 100. Campobaja
Seafood
Warehouse-high ceilings and timber salvaged from fishing boats set the stage at this Roma Norte seafood restaurant, where Chef Alejandro Zarate channels the straightforward cooking of Ensenada's fish camps. Impeccably sourced catches move through ceviches, aguachiles, and grilled octopus—dishes built for sharing, stripped of pretense, anchored by ingredient quality alone.