The Best Places to Eat in Mexico City
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The jukebox still sits beside the cocktail bar, the red lights are still dim, and the pool table is still upstairs on the mezzanine. Cananea is a cantina inside a hotel in Juárez, where the bar has been around forever but now runs a Sonoran-leaning menu of chivichangas and dried meat alongside classic margaritas, gimlets, and mezcal spritzes. It draws the kind of crowd that stays much later than planned.
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Rank 195. Cantina El Sella
Mexican
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A rooftop restaurant perched behind the Metropolitan Cathedral, with the Centro Histórico's skyline doing a lot of work in the background. Charco is a casual Latin dining room where the kitchen keeps things unhurried and uncluttered: seasonal vegetables, fresh catches, and cocktails that people tend to linger over. The crowd comes for the view and stays because the food asks them to.
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Rank 195. Chuan Bai Wei
Sichuan
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Rank 195. Çuina
Mexican
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Rank 195. El Minutito
Italian-Inspired Wine Bar
There is no seating at El Minutito, by design, and that's the whole point. This tiny Italian-inspired coffee shop and wine bar near Plaza Washington runs on the European idea that a coffee is a thing you drink standing at the bar, not a reason to open a laptop. Mornings bring espresso and croissants; evenings shift to vermouth, aperitivos, and natural wine. The sidewalk bench seats maybe two people, so arrive ready to mingle.
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Rank 195. El Tigrillo
Cocktail Bar
A tiny aperitif bar in Roma Norte where vermouth, cider, and Mexican wine do the heavy lifting Wednesday through Saturday evenings. On weekends it pivots to hearty Norteño breakfasts, the kind built around chorizo, chicharron, and grilled cheese with carnitas. The room is small enough that ordering the wrong thing feels like a public event, which is fine because there isn't really a wrong thing to order.
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Rank 195. Ficelle
French Bakery
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Rank 195. KillBill Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 195. Klein's
Mexican
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Rank 195. La Polar
Jaliscan Mexican
White tiles, cold tap beer, and one thing on the menu: birria, the goat stew from Jalisco that La Polar has been making forever. This old-school restaurant in San Rafael keeps it simple and loud, with dueling mariachi bands and, apparently, a talking parrot. Fold the tender meat into warm tortillas, chase each bite with a spoonful of consommé, and let the afternoon dissolve. Thursday or Friday, late afternoon, is when the locals arrive to do exactly that.
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Rank 195. Lagerbar Hércules
Beer Bar
A lager-focused beer bar from a Querétaro craft brewery, on a busy corner in Hipódromo. The staff can hold forth on exactly how much foam your Czech pilsner should carry, which is either charming or alarming depending on your tolerance for expertise. The taps cover a corn lager, a brett-inoculated pale, and a Kolsch-style ale alongside the flagship. The kitchen leans German, with pork shank and schnitzel keeping the hops company.
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Rank 195. Lempicka Bistro
Mexican-inspired French
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Rank 195. Maleza
Mexican
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Rank 195. Marne
French Bakery
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Rank 195. Mätre
Sourdough Bakery
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Rank 195. MATSUBA
Sushi
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Rank 195. Maza Bistrot
Indian
Amber light, tall ceilings, and a menu that has no business being in the Juárez neighborhood, in the best possible, wait, simply: Indian food done this carefully is rare anywhere. Maza Bistrot is a compact bistro where biryani arrives baked under pastry and mussels come with rasam instead of white wine. French touchstones appear here and there, but northwestern India is the main argument. In a city where the high end keeps rerunning Mexican and Mediterranean hits, this one is quietly doing something different.
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Rank 195. Nadefo
Korean Barbecue
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Rank 195. Neveria Roxy
Mexican Dessert
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Rank 195. Pancracia
Mexican Bakery
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Rank 195. Pastelería Suiza
Swiss Bakery
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Rank 195. Roselle
Italian
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Rank 195. Tamales Doña Emi
Mexican
A walk-up tamale shop on a quiet Roma Sur corner that sells out most mornings before the city has properly woken up. The masa is unusually light, and the roster runs from squash blossom with cheese to pork loin with olives to a sweet fig and cream cheese version that has no business being that good at 8 a.m. A handful of sidewalk tables for those who can't wait, but most people just grab and go, fast.
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Rank 195. Tenampa
Mexican
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Rank 195. Tetetlán
Mexican
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Rank 195. The Lamb
British
A little white lamb above the door is your first clue that this Roma Norte restaurant takes Britain seriously, which in Mexico City is a genuinely odd proposition. The menu runs through pub classics, Welsh rarebit, bangers and mash, rabbit pie, all built from organic produce and European-style cheeses made in Mexico. The room has the warmth of a countryside pub without the sticky carpet.
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Rank 195. Travieso
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 195. Vacaciones
Italian
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Rank 239. Por Siempre Vegana Taquería
Vegan Mexican
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Rank 239. Taquería Orinoco
Late-Night Mexican
This is a taqueria built for the hour when mezcal starts making decisions for you, open until 3:30am on weeknights and later on weekends. The tacos de chicharrón come soft inside and seared outside, a texture that makes more sense at 2am than it has any right to. The al pastor gets its own following, and a plate of tacos here costs less than the cab home.
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Rank 241. El Huequito
Mexican
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Rank 241. La Onda
Mexican
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Rank 241. Siembra Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 241. Tacos Don Juan
Mexican
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Rank 241. Taqueria Selene
Mexican
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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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Rank 288. Lardo
Mediterranean
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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Rank 288. Malcriado
Mediterranean Mexican
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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