The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Mexico City

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Bartola is a loud, candlelit Italian dinner spot in Roma Norte, all white tablecloths set against deliberately broken cement walls. The host handles walk-ins with a smile that translates roughly to good luck, and the open kitchen is staffed by cooks who look styled for a menswear lookbook. Expats fill the room, mostly watching each other. The chicken parm gets finished tableside, which is the only moment anyone looks at their food.

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Butcher & Sons is a casual burger counter in Roma with a few siblings around the city. The Bowie comes with roasted poblano and fried tortilla, which is what happens when a burger grows up in Mexico City. There's a plant-based Yorke for vegetarians, and a monthly burger cooked up with a guest chef, sometimes from places with tasting menus. Order the bacon-wrapped fries and plan around the s'mores pie.

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Cantón Mexicali is a Chinese restaurant in Roma that still looks like it's waiting on a 1995 wedding banquet, mostly because the new owners had the good sense to leave the decor alone. The cooking now leans Mexicali-style, which means fried shrimp in a sweet and sour chipotle salsa sharing a table with dan dan noodles and cold Tsingtaos. Younger regulars fill in around the loyal holdovers, and nobody seems to mind the carpet.

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A gleaming La Marzocco anchors the tiny bar at this Condesa coffee shop, pulling shots from beans sourced out of Veracruz, with a whole wall of AeroPress, Chemex, and V60 gear behind it. The geometric mosaic floor and a pastry case loaded with morning buns eat up the rest of the space. On good days the sidewalk chairs are the real seating plan. The name means "very tiny," and the room commits to that.

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A Thai food truck in Roma, lit up with neon and a shelf of sauce bottles, where diners huddle around the stand with a plate of spicy corn salad or marinated pork over coconut rice. Food trucks can't pour liquor, so a zero-alcohol beer handles the fire, which is the closest thing to a house rule. It works as a loud, cheap warm-up before the bars nearby, and The Infatuation put it on its list of Roma's best.

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Lardo is an all-day Mexican-Mediterranean restaurant in Condesa where the move is to sit at the bar and eat something with a fork. It runs from power breakfast to date night without changing its shirt, and the grilled octopus in peanut and tomato sauce explains the stool situation. Expect tourists and laptop people more than neighbors, and know that the croque madame at breakfast is a little indulgent.

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The name translates to "badly raised," which tells you something about the attitude. Malcriado runs as a cafe through the morning and a natural wine bar by evening, taking both halves seriously enough that neither reads as the excuse for the other. The team cups the beans twice daily, the coffee comes from Chiapas, and the kitchen carries a Mediterranean sensibility built on Mexican ingredients. Tables spill onto Atlixco, fully absorbed into Condesa's sidewalk rhythm.

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Marmota is a wood-fired restaurant on Plaza Río de Janeiro, the one with the statue of David, which is a strange thing to eat dinner next to. The menu takes its cues from the Pacific Northwest, so expect a lot of smoke and char, with farm-raised meat and mostly local produce. The drinks list leans on hard cider, a sensible call when everything else tastes like a campfire.

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Pollos Poncho is a casual Roma spot where the whole menu answers to one bird. The chicken shows up in a grilled flour tortilla sandwich with labneh, and in tacos al pastor, where it stands in for the pork without apology. The move is a late lunch with the whole roasted chicken, rice, potatoes, guacamole, and fresh tortillas. The same people run the El Moro churro empire, so short menus are their native language.

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Rojo Bistrot is a corner French bistro in Condesa where Amélie posters and vintage Perrier ads cover the walls, in case you forgot what country you were pretending to be in. The menu runs on duck, escargots, and onion soup under a lid of melted cheese. Younger locals share the room with ladies in pearls and Chanel-ish jackets, and jazzy pop covers keep things low enough for conversation. Dinner here costs less than a flight to Lyon.

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Xel-Há is a Condesa dining room with white tablecloths, branded napkins, and waiters in bow ties, which sets expectations for stuffy and overpriced that the menu cheerfully ignores. The cooking leans Yucatecan, the soccer match plays on several TVs, and a solid lunch runs about $20. It's busy and family-friendly, yet somehow there's always a table for a big group, which feels like a small miracle.

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The building looks like a face, the peaked roof a witch's hat, the windows two wide eyes staring down Colonia Roma. The cocktail bar inside leans into all of that, with an all-women team turning Mexico's native botanicals into drinks that feel less like cocktails and more like something brewed. The crowd tends toward the architecturally curious who then find a reason to stay for a second round.

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