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  1. Address
    Calle 47 458 Santa Ana 97000 Mérida, Yuc. Mexico · Mérida
    Hours

    Closes soon, 11:30 PM, in 13 min

    Thursday 1 PM–11:30 PM

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  2. Candles throwing shadows onto colorfully plated dishes is the move at Rubra, a modern restaurant inside the W hotel on Punta de Mita's Pacific coast. Daniela Soto-Innes leads the kitchen through a tropical menu that leans on banana flower, passionfruit, and galangal, which sounds like a resort menu until it doesn't. The indoor-outdoor room, all concrete and greenery, earns its keep after dark.







  3. Address
    Avenida Revolución 1085, Zona Centro, 22000 Tijuana, BC, México · Tijuana
    Hours

    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 13 min

    Thursday Noon–9:30 PM

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  4. Rank 111. Siembra

    Modern Mexican



  5. Rank 112. Sarde

    Seafood

    A three-story townhouse in Roma Norte where the name tells you everything: "sarde" means sardine, and the kitchen stays fixed on Mexico's coastlines. This is a contemporary seafood restaurant where the cold raw preparations, Japanese-cut fish included, get as much care as the plating. The exposed brick bar does real work for solo diners, and the cocktails hold their own. A Michelin Guide selected restaurant.


  6. Rank 114. Fugaz

    Mexican

    A bright green facade on a Roma Norte corner marks this low-key cafe, where the menu changes weekly and the kitchen leans on vegetables and whatever fish looked good that morning. The chef's background runs through Buenos Aires, Europe, and New York, and a quiet Mediterranean note runs through the Mexican cooking. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. Bring a book, bring your mom, or bring a Tinder date you may need to escape.


  7. Rank 115. LINA

    Contemporary Mexican

    An arched door on a Roma Norte side street opens into a warm corridor of blond wood, white walls, and pendant lighting, with an open kitchen built around a wood-fire grill. LINA is an elegant but unstuffy contemporary Mexican seafood restaurant where the menu follows what local farmers are actually growing, and the chef's careful, well-traveled hand shows in things like beautifully charred squash with smoky pine nut sauce. The crowd dresses up just enough to feel like the room deserves it.


    Address
    Avenida Yucatán 147, Roma Norte, 06700 Cuauhtémoc, CDMX, Mexico · Mexico City
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Fri 2:30 PM

    Thursday 2:30 PM–11 PM

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  8. A dozen oysters on ice is a perfectly reasonable meal, and this lively oyster bar and grill operates on that premise without apology. The room draws from New Orleans and Buenos Aires in equal measure, which sounds chaotic but somehow works. Bivalves are the point, shucked fresh and served simply, though the grilled and smoked preparations have their own following. A spot on The 50 Best Discovery list and Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants signals the word is out.


  9. Rank 117. Martínez

    European

    A bistro-sized room in Roma Norte where the kitchen is basically the bar, so ordering a drink comes with a front-row view of the line. Martínez is a contemporary restaurant drawing loose inspiration from French bistro energy filtered through Mexican and Japanese touches, the kind of menu that's short enough to read in one go. Named Mexico's Best New Restaurant in 2023, it fills early and stays loud.


  10. Rank 117. Villa Torél

    Contemporary Mexican

    Lavender and citrus trees frame the terrace at Villa Torél, a casual outdoor restaurant tucked inside the Santo Tomás winery south of Ensenada, with vineyard hills rolling out beyond your plate. The menu is short and built for sharing, contemporary Mexican with French edges, and the whole thing runs on what the chef calls proximity cuisine. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list at number sixteen.


  11. Elena Reygadas runs this snug European-style bakery in Roma Norte, and the guava and ricotta Danish alone explains the line out the door. In a city where the standard pan dulce leans dry and margarine-heavy, the pastries here pull from an Italian-inflected pantry: airy conchas, chocolate-glazed donuts, focaccia, rustic loaves. Come early, order a coffee, then pick up a box to take to a park.



  12. Address
    Avenida 7 P 312, Puebla Centro, 72000 Puebla, PUE, Mexico · Puebla
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Fri 2 PM

    Thursday 2 PM–10:30 PM

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  13. Rank 121. Propio

    Northern Mexican

    The sundeck at the back of this Roma Norte restaurant hints at something relaxed, but the cooking is quietly serious. The team behind Propio trained at Quintonil and Eleven Madison Park, and the menu is rooted in Northern Mexican tradition without feeling like a history lesson. The room is midcentury-handsome, reservations fill up fast, and the MB100 named them Emerging Chefs of the Year in 2024. Book ahead.



  14. The spinning trompos and roaring grill share a parking lot with an auto repair shop, which tells you most of what you need to know about this famous late-night taqueria. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and everyone comes for the al pastor, shaved pork with pineapple stacked improbably high. Order the gringa on a flour tortilla with melted cheese if you don't mind getting your hands involved.


  15. Rank 124. Al Andalus

    Middle Eastern


  16. Rank 124. Cara de Vaca

    Northern Mexican Barbecue



  17. This Spanish taberna skips the dark wood and hanging hams for bright white walls and enough air to linger for hours. It doubles as a market, and much of what ends up on the plate is shipped in from Spain. The house vermouth comes on tap, the arroz meloso arrives rich and creamy, and the '80s and '90s Spanish pop will have you inventing a Eurail trip you never took.


  18. Mezcal is the spine of the menu here, which makes sense given that Oaxaca is basically ground zero for the stuff. Selva is a cocktail bar that leans hard into local and seasonal ingredients, building drinks around the landscape rather than the back bar. A spot on North America's 50 Best Bars says the room is doing something worth noticing. Come for the cocktails and stay because the food snacks keep arriving and nobody seems to be in a rush.


  19. Most seats are outside, the way Roma Norte tends to prefer it, and Bar Nino earns that open-air ease with an elegant take on Italian fine dining. The team behind Hugo El Wine Bar opened this one nearby, and the two feel like a matched set: food that knows what it's doing, a wine list worth drinking by the glass, and service that reads as genuinely warm rather than just correct.



  20. A tree-lined street in Condesa, a terrace made for lingering, and a menu that treats Baja California's coastal larder as a serious argument for Mexican fine dining. Chef Jair Téllez keeps the cooking direct, balancing seafood and meat without fuss. The room is contemporary but warm enough that the tasting menu doesn't feel like homework. Michelin has it in the Guide.


  21. An open-air restaurant carved out of the jungle just off the Tulum road, where the menu changes daily and lives on a blackboard. The wood-fire grill does most of the talking, and whatever looked good at the market that morning ends up on your plate. Solo diners can usually slip in at the bar, but everyone else plans ahead. The crowd and the candlelit jungle canopy are half the draw, and nobody seems to mind.



  22. Red sauce and thin-crust pizza in the Hipódromo, from the chef behind Cana and a former beverage lead from Enrique Olvera's orbit. Gia is a casual Italian American restaurant doing the New York red-sauce joint thing with enough conviction that it doesn't feel like a tribute act. Saucy pastas, focaccia, meatballs, a green goddess salad buried in Parmigiano, and a pizza list that runs from pepperoni to mortadella.









  23. Address
    Avenida Juárez 1914, San Matias, 72090 Puebla, Pue., Mexico · Puebla
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Fri 2 PM

    Thursday 2 PM–10:30 PM

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  24. Rank 143. Bruma Wine Garden

    Contemporary Mexican

    Lunch under the trees on a working winery property in Valle de Guadalupe, at one long communal table or a smaller one off to the side. The kitchen turns out contemporary Mexican plates, birria pizza among them, which sounds like a dare and eats like a plan. The setting is entirely open air, so the vibe follows the weather, which in Baja wine country is usually doing its part. A Michelin Selected restaurant.



















  25. Address
    Avenida A Revolución 892, Zona Norte, 22000 Tijuana, B.C., México · Tijuana
    Hours

    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 43 min

    Thursday 11 AM–10 PM

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  26. Rank 143. La Docena - Roma

    Cajun & Creole Seafood

    The raw bar is the main event here, a New Orleans-leaning oyster and seafood spot in Roma Norte that hums with the same energy as its Polanco and Guadalajara siblings. Tostadas, fish fillets, and a cured meat counter where some of the charcuterie gets sliced to order round out a menu that keeps things unfussy on purpose. Come thirsty and don't overthink it.





  27. Complimentary salsas and hand-cut crisps land on the table the moment you sit down, which softens the blow of the wait outside, often close to an hour. This upscale taquería in wealthy Las Lomas fills fast and takes no reservations, so arrive with patience and leave the diet at home. The tacos lean rich, truffled mushrooms, suckling pig, Black Angus seared on a trompo spit, and the music is loud enough that nobody's talking about the bill.



















  28. The restaurant at Chablé Yucatán, about 45 minutes outside Mérida, where the herbs and vegetables on your plate were growing in the hotel's Mayan gardens that morning. Jorge Vallejo, the chef behind Mexico City's Quintonil, shapes the menu, with a Quintonil alumnus running the kitchen day to day. It's a fine dining room with a genuine sense of place, and the kind of table you plan a trip around rather than stumble into.


    Address
    San Antonio Chablé, Merida, 97816, Mexico · Chocholá
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Fri 1 PM

    Thursday 1 PM–10 PM

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  29. Rank 190. Nicos

    Mexican

    An old-school institution in Claveria that started, as the story goes, when a customer spotted the staff eating something too good to keep off a menu. Now the founder's son runs the kitchen, turning out a tasting menu of classic Mexican cooking in a room that feels like a neighborhood restaurant that just happens to have been packed for generations. Warm, unhurried, and a long way from the tourist trail.


  30. Rank 191. Fantino

    Mediterranean

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  31. Rank 191. Teodoro

    Mexican

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    Address
    Retorno del Rey 36, Cancún, ROO 77500, Mexico · Cancún
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6:30 PM

    Friday 6:30 PM–11 PM

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  33. Celia Florián's mole negro, black as char and smoky down to the bone, is the dish that keeps this Oaxacan restaurant on everyone's list. The mole runs through the whole menu, pooled under enchiladas, folded into empanadas, paired with plantains. Florián learned to cook from her mother and grandmother on a farm outside the city, and the recipes carry that lineage. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a room this serious about tradition.




  34. Rank 198. Bakéa

    Basque French


  35. Rank 198. Ramen Deigo

    Japanese Noodle Shop


  36. Rank 198. Restaurante Danubio

    Basque Seafood


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