The Top 100 Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 3. 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 5. 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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Rank 6. Masala y Maiz
Fusion
A cramped Centro dining room where Norma Listman and Saqib Keval splice Indian, African, and Mexican traditions into something genuinely new: samosas stuffed with suadero, Veracruz prawns grilled hard and finished with vanilla butter, chilpachole reimagined with softshell crab. The cooking is confident and unselfconscious, more interested in flavor than fusion credentials.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest 2025 · Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 6. 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 8. 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 2025 · Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Gabriela Cámara
- MexBest 2023 · Mejor Servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
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Rank 8. 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 8. 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 8. 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 8. 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 8. Almara
Fusion Mexican
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Rank 8. 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 18. 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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Rank 18. Nicos
Mexican
From a soda stand to Michelin recognition, Nicos serves the founder's son's interpretation of classic Mexican cooking with precision and warmth. Crispy cecina tacos and bright tamarind shrimp exemplify his gift for extracting maximum flavor from elemental ingredients.
- 50 Best 2025 · #84 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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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 21. 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 21. 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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- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2023 · Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Fabiola Escobosa
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 21. 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 21. 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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- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 28. 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 28. 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 28. 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
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- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 28. 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 28. Ardente
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 28. 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 28. Ardente Pizzeria Napoletana (Condesa)
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 37. El Hidalguense
Rustic Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Taquería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 37. 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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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 37. 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 37. Restaurante El Cardenal
Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Marcela Briz
- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 37. 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 2024 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Dónde comer los mejores mariscos en México
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Rank 37. Makan
Singaporean
- MexBest 2024 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 37. 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 37. Gia
American Italian
- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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- MexBest 2025 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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- MB100 2024 · The 35 Classic Restauraunts
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 37. El Califa de León
Mexican
A narrow counter in San Rafael has stood for fifty years, turning out tacos built on restraint: beef filet seared thin, salted and limed, folded into fresh corn tortillas. The pork chops and ribs rotate through with the same austere logic. Two house salsas complete a philosophy that says nothing should distract from the meat and fire.
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Rank 65. Limosneros
Mexican
In the Centro Histórico, amid salvaged fountains and Puebla talavera, Limosneros resurrects old recipes with contemporary restraint. The tasting menu moves through precisely executed dishes that honor tradition without genuflection; the taco progression—savory through sweet—is the more adventurous choice for those willing to follow the kitchen's logic.
- MB100 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 66. 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 66. 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 66. 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 66. 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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Rank 66. BAJEL
Contemporary Mexican
Inside the Sofitel, Bajel pairs an open kitchen with tasting menus that merge French technique and Mexican ingredients, notably a 25-ingredient white mole. The dining room commands views of Reforma while the chef orchestrates both clarity and vegetarian refinement with equal precision.
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Rank 66. Cananea
Sonoran Mexican
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Rank 66. Taqueria Los Cocuyos
Mexican
At a cauldron near the front counter, a chef breaks down meat with balletic efficiency as the dining room—cavernous and perpetually packed—fills with the smell of decades-old cooking. Cabeza arrives tender enough to melt, al pastor charred and alive, both finished tableside with lime and salsa; suadero, if you arrive late enough to catch it properly braised, is reason alone to stay.
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Rank 66. 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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- 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 66. Taverna
Mediterranean
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Rank 66. Pizza Félix
Neapolitan Pizza
- MexBest El conteo definitivo: Las mejores 6 pizzerías de la CDMX
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Rank 66. Siembra Tortillería
Modern Mexican
A sidewalk operation in Polanco where Karina Mejía and Israel Montero turn heirloom corn tortillas into vehicles for charred fish al pastor and arrachera crowned with crispy potatoes. The kitchen moves fast and portions run generous, which explains why the counter stays crowded and the tacos disappear quickly.
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Rank 66. Margarita
Mexican
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Rank 80. Taquería El Greco
Mexican
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Rank 80. 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 80. El Turix
Yucatan-Style Mexican
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Rank 80. 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 80. Rincón Tarasco
Mexican
- MexBest 2024 · Mejor Taquería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 80. El Pescadito Taquerías
Mexican
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- MexBest 2023 · Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 87. Havre 77
French
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Rank 87. Restaurante Danubio
Basque Seafood
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Rank 87. 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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Rank 87. Ramen Deigo
Noodles
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Rank 87. 25dos
Contemporary Mexican
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Rank 87. Bakéa
Basque French
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Rank 87. Azul
Mexican
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Rank 87. 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 87. Supplì
Roman Italian
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Rank 87. Raíz
Contemporary Mexican
A modest storefront on a residential street conceals cooking that takes corn and its companions seriously—aguachile arrives in cuttlefish ink broth, tostadas arrive golden and precise, and a whole fish emerges with skin crackling like parchment. The kitchen moves between playful (pickled onions on a plantain molote) and restrained, each plate a small argument about what Mexican food can be.
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Rank 87. Los Danzantes
Contemporary Mexican
In a colonial-era building on Coyoacán's central plaza, Los Danzantes draws a steady crowd with contemporary takes on Mexican cooking. The hoja santa—goat cheese anchored by miltomate and chile—has anchored the menu for decades, while grilled beef arrives under a dark, complex mole that justifies its starring role. This is cooking that knows its tradition and doesn't need to announce itself.
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Rank 87. Galea
Italian
A corner room lined in warm wood, softened by terra-cotta light and the murmur of neighborhood regulars. Galea's Italian menu stays lean—focaccia, handmade pastas offered in half portions, a daily fish in beurre blanc—but each dish carries intention. The panna cotta arrives with a subtle Mexican touch, a small gesture that defines the place: rooted in tradition, alert to where it is.
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Rank 87. Taberna del Leon
Global
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Rank 87. 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 87. Tenoch By Paradero Todos Santos
Contemporary Mexican
A dirt road through pepper fields leads to this open-air kitchen in rural Baja California Sur, where the casual setup masks exacting work with local seafood and farm vegetables. Soft-shell crab tacos arrive deceptively simple but complex on the tongue; slow-roasted beef tongue and manchamantel mole show equal restraint and depth. The contemporary Mexican cooking tastes of its place and moment.
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Rank 87. Entremar
Seafood
The terrace at Entremar spills onto a quiet corner of Polanco under canvas awnings and trailing plants, though the real prize is a table on the first floor overlooking the plaza. Tuna tostadas arrive with chipotle, avocado, and fried leek for texture; the signature pescado a la talla — boneless fish grilled and flanked by red and green sauces — announces the kitchen's refinement without apology.
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Rank 107. Er Erre
Global
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Rank 107. Pink Rambo
Contemporary
A muscular Jesus flexing above the kitchen sets the tone at this Santa María la Ribera cantina, where the cooking is just as irreverent as the décor. Empanadas, shrimp dumplings, fried chicken, and crispy oyster brioche tumble across a small-plates menu with genuine surprise in each bite; the tostadas are deceptively simple, the flan textbook-perfect. Personality without pretense.
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Rank 107. Aleli Rooftop
Mexican
A rooftop in Roma Norte where smoke from the open grill drifts through the evening air. Aleli keeps its traditional Mexican menu focused—brocheta de camarón, zarandeado fish, charred potato bread—letting quality ingredients and careful technique speak. Perch at the bar to watch the cook work, order a cocktail, and find yourself pleased by both the food and what you're paying for it.
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Rank 107. 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.
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Rank 107. 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 107. Filigrana
Mexican
Chef Martha Ortiz's Roma storefront marries botanical maximalism—soaring windows, living trees, purple velvet—with cooking that treats Mexican classics as design problems. A gordita arrives crispy and refined, its shredded tongue tongue topped with fried epazote; a tamal reimagined as a golden cube of fried portobello in guajillo sauce. The pozole brujo, meanwhile, lets its broth do the talking.
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Rank 107. 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 107. Hunan - San Angel
Chinese
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Rank 107. 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 107. Tacos Charly
Mexican
This Tlalpan taqueria draws crowds for suadero confited until yielding, then simmered for juice-soaked tacos; arrive early with cash. The al pastor, carved thin from a spinning trompo and kissed with rendered fat, rewards the wait.
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Rank 107. 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 107. 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 107. Al Andalus
Middle Eastern
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Rank 107. 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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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 122. Cantina El Sella
Mexican
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Rank 122. Superette
French
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A line snakes down the street to this modest taqueria half a block from the Zócalo, where you buy tokens for potato, beans, carne en adobo, or chicharrón tacos at prices that invite gluttony. The dining room opens generously behind the cramped entrance, and the salsas, pickles, and guacamole elevate what could be casual fuel into something worth the wait.
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Rank 122. 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 122. Lempicka Bistro
Mexican/French
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Rank 122. Ricos Tacos Toluca
Mexican
A cramped corner counter in the Centro Histórico where Toluca-style chorizo—handmade, variable—takes center stage: the obispo sausage arrives with a whisper of char, the tamarindo chorizo with diced texture and subtle sweetness. Few seats mean standing, but two decades of relocation prove the tacos are worth it.
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Rank 122. El Minutito
Italian-Inspired Wine Bar
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Rank 122. The Lamb
British
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Rank 122. Alfil Restaurante
Mexican
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Rank 122. Çuina
Mexican
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Rank 122. Roselle
Italian
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Rank 122. KillBill Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 122. Bella Aurora
Contemporary Italian
A pink-fronted Roman-style trattoria in Roma Norte, Bella Aurora moves gracefully from morning pastries through lunch and dinner without fuss or affectation. Octopus arrives lightly pickled with potato, while conchiglie with tuna ragù, chili, and Kalamata olives shows genuine care in execution. The tiramisu alone justifies lingering over dessert.
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Rank 122. Auna Restaurante
Elevated Mexican
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Rank 122. Malix Restaurant
Mexican
A cream-and-wood dining room in Polanco unfolds across sidewalk, counter, and open kitchen, each zone equally composed in beige and light. Malix moves freely between Mexican tradition and global detours—house-made Lao sausage, pâté with pickles—anchoring each plate in local producers and, when it lands, in a grilled duck breast that justifies the mole.
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Rank 122. Marne
French Bakery
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Rank 122. Tetetlán
Mexican
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Rank 122. Bellopuerto
Seafood Mexican
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Rank 122. Barbacoa Los 3 Reyes
Mexican
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Rank 122. Estoril
Oaxacan Mexican
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Rank 122. Vacaciones
Italian
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Rank 122. 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.
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Rank 122. Gonzalitos
Northern-style Mexican
In a modest storefront on Calle de Colima, this taqueria executes northern Mexican technique with precision: beef barbacoa arrives juicy and deeply flavored, best ordered dorado-style in a crisped tortilla, though machacado con huevo and tempura chile rellenos prove equally assured. Diners perch at sidewalk counter or cramped indoor tables, watching the small kitchen work.
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Rank 122. Chuan Bai Wei
Sichuan Chinese
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Rank 122. Mätre
Sourdough Bakery
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Rank 122. Klein's
Mexican
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Rank 122. La Opera
Global
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Rank 122. CANA
Contemporary Mexican
Natural light floods a modest dining room where contemporary Mexican cooking unfolds against crisp white walls and the gentle murmur of other tables. A menu that pivots on seasonal produce—from salt cod croquetas to duck breast with farro—suggests a kitchen more interested in clarity than grandeur.
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Rank 122. Guzina Oaxaca
Oaxacan Mexican
On a Polanco avenue of designer boutiques, Guzina Oaxaca channels the corn-and-chile traditions of its namesake region through the hands of two Oaxacan chefs drawing on family memory. Moles, grasshoppers, and a cup of thick chocolate arrive as acts of cultural continuity, not curiosity.
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Rank 122. Travieso
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 122. El Tigrillo
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 122. Maleza
Mexican
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Rank 122. Tacos El Paisa
Mexican
A corner taqueria in San Rafael where the suadero—best ordered late, after hours of braising in its own fat—draws a crowd that eats standing up, perched on curbs and car hoods. The al pastor is reliable, and the small tacos demand quantity; aim for three or four per person. Efficient and perpetually festive.
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Rank 122. Maza Bistrot
Indian
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Rank 122. Casona Roma Norte
Contemporary
Natural light floods the dining room of Aquiles, a hotel restaurant that transcends its category with contemporary cooking grounded in Mexican ingredients. Steak tartare and tortilla soup demonstrate an uncomplicated approach, while the burger and braised short rib anchor an à la carte menu that moves between indulgence and restraint.
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Rank 122. Tenampa
Mexican
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Rank 122. Al Andalus
Lebanese Middle Eastern
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Rank 122. MATSUBA
Sushi
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Rank 122. Taquería Orinoco
Late-Night Mexican
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Rank 122. Charco
Latin
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Rank 122. Meroma
Contemporary
At Meroma in Roma Norte, Mercedes Bernal and Rodney Cusic craft a cosmopolitan menu that moves fluently between Mexican, Italian, and Mediterranean idioms. House-made pasta, tempura zucchini flowers with parmesan, and grilled fish dressed in hoja santa and black sesame read as essays in ingredient quality and precise technique. The sleek dining room matches the ambition on the plate.
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Rank 122. 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 122. Tamales Doña Emi
Mexican
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Rank 122. La Polar
Jalisco Mexican
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Rank 219. La Onda
Mexican
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Rank 219. Tacos Don Juan
Mexican
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Rank 219. Siembra Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 219. Taquería Orinoco
Late-Night Mexican
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Rank 219. Taqueria Selene
Mexican
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Rank 219. Por Siempre Vegana Taquería
Vegan Mexican
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Rank 219. El Huequito
Mexican
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Rank 239. Costa Guadiana
Contemporary Mexican
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Rank 239. Arturo's Restaurant
Classic French
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Rank 239. Yoshimi
Japanese
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Rank 239. Zeru - Lomas
Basque Spanish
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Rank 239. Gruta Ehden
Middle Eastern
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Rank 239. Suntory
Traditional Japanese
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Rank 239. Eloise
French
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Rank 239. Sushi Iwashi
Sushi
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Rank 239. Zagala
Basque Spanish
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Rank 239. Balcón del Zocalo
Mexican
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Rank 239. Restaurante Loma Linda
Argentinian
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Rank 239. The Palm
NY-Style
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Rank 239. Romina
Elevated Italian
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