The Best Places to Eat and Stay in Roma Norte & around
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Rank 1. Rosetta
Mexican
Elena Reygadas swapped English literature for cooking, and the curriculum shows: Rosetta is a creative Mexican restaurant where cabbage stands in for tortillas and pistachio does the work of pumpkin seeds, dishes that read like close readings of a tradition rather than departures from it. The room fills fast with people who trust the kitchen to do something worth thinking about. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on the World's 50 Best list.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #46 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 2. Máximo Bistrot
French-influenced Mexican
Soaring ceilings and white brick hold onto the building's industrial past while the room itself feels effortlessly cool, which is the Roma Norte way. Máximo is a fine dining restaurant where French technique bends toward Mexican ingredients and hyper-seasonality, sourced by the team from producers they've been visiting for years. Dishes shift constantly, desserts lean savory, and the whole thing moves at a pace that assumes you're staying a while. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list.
The awards
- MB100 MB100: Restaurant of the Year
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: #30 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 3. Em
Contemporary Mexican
Named for the chef's daughter, this intimate fine dining room on a quiet Roma Norte street holds a Michelin star and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list. The kitchen takes Mexican ingredients, heavy on seafood, somewhere unexpected: grilled young corn in coffee and yuzu butter, caviar over Veracruz fish stew. Upstairs, the 686 Bar is a perfectly reasonable excuse to linger before you sit down.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Fine Dining (Menú Degustación): Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- MexBest MexBest: Fine Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Fine Dining (Menú Degustación): Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest Fine Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 4. Masala y Maiz
Mexican
The samosas here are filled with suadero, which tells you everything about what Norma Listman and Saqib Keval are doing at this Michelin-starred restaurant in Centro. African, Indian, and Mexican cooking converge without any one tradition elbowing the others aside. Veracruz prawns arrive aggressively grilled with vanilla butter; the table fills fast with people who came specifically for exactly this.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- MexBest MexBest: Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- MexBest Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 5. Ultramarinos De Mar
Seafood
Gleaming stainless steel and seafoam green tiles give this Roma Norte corner spot the feel of a diner that wandered off course and ended up obsessing over oysters. It's a casual seafood bistro with a raw bar, counter stools, and an open kitchen keeping things honest. Clams, crudos, a lobster roll, and daily specials round out a menu that swings from raw bar snacks to pasta without losing focus. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest MexBest: Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 5. Voraz
Mexican
A former auto shop in Roma Sur now runs on achiote-seasoned pig ears, oyster gorditas, and savoury churros. Voraz calls itself a gastro-cantina, which means the menu ranges wide, the room runs loud, and the chef, a NOMA and Fäviken alumnus, describes the whole experience as "delicious but organised chaos." Condé Nast Traveler named it among the best new restaurants in the world in 2024. Come ready to talk to strangers.
The awards
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The best new restaurants in the world
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- Condé Nast Traveler The best new restaurants in the world
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 7. 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.
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- MexBest MexBest: Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Giuseppe Lacorazza
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- MexBest Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Giuseppe Lacorazza
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest MexBest: Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Fabiola Escobosa
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Fabiola Escobosa
- MexBest Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 8. 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.
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- MexBest MexBest: Chef promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Mariana Villegas
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Time Out Time Out: The best restaurants in Mexico City
- MexBest Chef promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Mariana Villegas
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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- MexBest MexBest: Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Time Out Time Out: The best restaurants in Mexico City
- MexBest Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Time Out The best restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 8. 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.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- MexBest Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 8. 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.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 13. El Hidalguense
Rustic Mexican
Sheep and goat wrapped in maguey leaves, buried underground with coals, and slow-roasted overnight in Hidalgo state, then trucked into Roma Sur every weekend. This two-story barbacoa shop is only open Friday through Sunday, which concentrates the crowd accordingly. The sturdy wooden tables and colorful runners make it relatively dressy by barbacoa standards, which is to say you won't be eating off a folding table. Order by weight and start with the consommé.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Taquería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- MexBest 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 13. Expendio de Maíz
Mexican
Four communal tables, no sign, no menu, cash only, and a Michelin star. The math at this Roma Norte sidewalk spot is its own argument. The kitchen runs on heirloom corn nixtamalized and ground in house, and whatever lands in front of you, tortillas or huaraches or sopes, gets shaped and griddled to order before disappearing under seasonal sauces. The tableside salsas arrive with serious intent. No reservations, and the waitlist moves at its own pace.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 13. Marisquería Mi Compa Chava
Pacific Mexican
The awards
- MexBest Dónde comer los mejores mariscos en México
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 13. Meroma
Contemporary Mediterranean
A small bar spills onto Calle de Colima at street level, and you're meant to linger there with a drink before heading upstairs to the dining room, which is cozy, neutral-toned, and quietly confident. The husband-and-wife team behind Meroma keeps the menu seasonal and the sourcing deliberate, turning out the kind of elegant, composed plates that make Roma Norte feel like it's doing something right. An old-school institution this is not, but it eats like one.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- MexBest Casual Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- MB100 Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 13. Panadería Rosetta
Bakery
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.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
- MexBest Mejor Panadería: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation 21 Classic Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
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Rank 13. Vigneron
Contemporary French
A sliver of a room in Roma Norte, all dark wood and candlelight, with just enough tables that you'll feel like you got in on something. Vigneron is a contemporary French restaurant where the menu stays short and the wine list, mostly European, runs long. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks: this is the kind of cooking that shows off without announcing itself. Share everything you can.
The awards
- MexBest Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Bamboo towers over the courtyard at this Thai restaurant in Roma Norte, where woven pendants and trailing vines make the setting feel genuinely removed from the street outside. Chef Somsri Raksamran tends her own herb garden and harvests to order, which shows in the green curry's brightness. The menu covers Thailand's northeast, central plains, and south, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for the trouble.
The awards
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- MB100 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. 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.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Shary Romo y Alex Chávez
- MB100 MB100: Emerging Chefs of the Year · Alex Chavez y Shary Romo
- MB100 MB100: Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- MexBest Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Shary Romo y Alex Chávez
- MB100 Emerging Chefs of the Year · Alex Chavez y Shary Romo
- MB100 Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 21. Loup Bar
Natural Wine Bar
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- MexBest Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Rank 22. Pargot
Mexican
The awards
- MB100 MB100: Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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- MexBest Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Carmen ‘Titita’ Ramírez Degollado
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- MexBest Mejor Trayectoria Empresarial: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Carmen ‘Titita’ Ramírez Degollado
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Rank 26. 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.
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- MexBest Chef Promesa: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Pako Cortés
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 34. La 89
Mexican
Plastic stools, metal tables, and a kitchen that refuses to rush anything, which is not nothing when you're talking carne asada grilled to order. This bright Roma Norte taqueria does birria, tortas, and quesabirria, the last of which holds up fine without the consommé but really wants it. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. You will stand in line with people who know exactly what they're ordering before they reach the front.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 34. Tacos Del Valle
Mexican
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 37. Sartoria
Italian
The terrace fills early with couples and the kind of people who dress like they read Italian Vogue, making Sartoria feel more Milan than Roma Norte. It's a neighborhood osteria at heart, with an industrial-chic interior and a focused menu that runs from antipasti through pasta to secondi. The kitchen takes presentation seriously, and the tiramisu is the kind that makes you question every other version you've had.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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A boutique luxury hotel in Roma built from bricks shipped over from England for the original Bank of London & Mexico director, which is an origin story that takes some nerve to live up to. The name is about as much brick as you'll find; inside, the palette runs to soothing neutrals and Belle Époque bones refreshed with parquet floors and Deco mirrors. Rooftop suites have private patios, and there's a spa, a gym, and several bars and restaurants on site. Michelin awarded it one Key.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A 16-room boutique hotel in Roma Norte designed by Alberto Kalach, with art woven into every corner: latticework, sculpture, and photography fill the common spaces as earnestly as they do the guest rooms. Breakfast comes from Rosetta Bakery, there's an honesty bar, and a Street Food Concierge stands ready to help you navigate the neighborhood like an insider. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Five rooms in a century-old Roma mansion, each named after its dominant color, doesn't sound like much until you're standing in a garden with orange trees the housekeeper planted decades ago. This boutique guest house holds a Michelin Key, runs a daily cocktail hour, and tucks a small cooking school around the back. The architect's modern addition gets covered in architecture magazines, which is either a selling point or a warning, depending on your taste.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Eight suites above a concept store in a 1920s Roma Norte townhouse, La Valise earns its Michelin Key by doing the opposite of everything the big hotels are doing. Each suite has its own logic: one has a leather swing on the patio and a terracotta dog sculpture inside, another rolls the bed out onto an open-air terrace. The aesthetic is genuinely designed rather than decorated, which in a boutique hotel of this size is a meaningful distinction.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Five rooms, each named for its single colorway, sit above a ground floor that doubles as gallery, pop-up shop, and event space in this boutique hotel in Roma Norte. The mansion's original stained glass and vaulted ceilings stay intact, while upstairs the Celeste room arranges cobalt armchairs in a conversation pit and Musgo leans deep into midcentury botanical. A Michelin Key hotel, and one that books out fast around Mexico City Art Week.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A four-room boutique hotel inside a turn-of-the-century mansion in Roma, which is the part of Mexico City where people go to feel like they're in Lisbon. Each room has its own name and character, the style is contemporary without announcing itself as such, and the concierge seems to have a standing reservation at every worthwhile table in the neighborhood. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Rank 39. Taverna
Mediterranean
A candlelit Mediterranean tavern in a restored townhouse that spent decades in inheritance limbo before anyone thought to fix it up. The result is all greenery, vintage details, and mismatched elegance, the kind of room that makes whatever you're eating taste better. Fire-cooked fish and roasted vegetables anchor the menu, but cozy lounges and aged Negronis suggest nobody is in a hurry. Bring someone you want to impress.
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Rank 48. Pizza Félix
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The awards
- Condé Nast Traveler The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- MexBest El conteo definitivo: Las mejores 6 pizzerías de la CDMX
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Rank 49. Taqueria Los Parados
Mexican
The name is a spoiler: Los Parados means "the standing ones," and there are no seats, just a counter and a condiment station where you build your own plate of onions, lime, and salsa morita. It's a cheap, fast taquería on Avenida Monterrey, good for a mid-afternoon snack. The chile poblano con queso tacos cost about $2.50 for two, the goat tripe is the specialty, and the arroz con leche is a dessert taquerías rarely bother with.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Rank 50. El Jarocho
Mexican
A coffee shop in Roma Sur that's been slinging guisado tacos for generations, El Jarocho started life as a tortilleria and still makes its tortillas in-house. The format is simple: sit down, a server takes your order, and you pick from a rotating spread of stewed meats and vegetables. The campechano with chopped steak and chicharron does a lot of convincing on its own. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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A boutique hotel tucked above a Porfirian-era arcade in Roma Norte, which is either charming context or a lot of foot traffic depending on your tolerance for it. Rooms are minimalist but warm, with natural wood surfaces, deep green accents, and soundproof windows doing quiet, important work against the street below. There's almost no hotel lobby to speak of, but the terrace lets guests order from the restaurants downstairs, so the building earns its keep twice.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 50. Tacos Los Alexis
Mexican
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The rooftop pool sits seventeen floors above Condesa, which is either very high or just high enough, depending on how you feel about Mexico City sprawling out beneath you. This Hyatt-flagged boutique hotel takes its design cues from Mexican modernist Luis Barragán, filtered through Art Deco, and the result is a large-scale property that wears its ambitions lightly. Condesa is already a good neighborhood for this sort of thing, and the Andaz raises the ceiling considerably.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Eight rooms in a 20th-century Roma Norte house, Casa Goliana sits somewhere between boutique hotel and very stylish bed and breakfast, and it leans into that ambiguity. Rooms split the difference between contemporary chic and bohemian clutter, some with roll-top tubs, all with tiled bathrooms and art that looks chosen rather than purchased by the meter. Breakfast is the only meal, which makes sense: you're a short walk from half of Roma's restaurant scene.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A converted mansion on a quiet Roma Norte street with only five rooms, Casa Seis Siete is the kind of boutique hotel that makes you forget you're in a hotel. Period architecture shares wall space with contemporary art, and each suite is styled close enough to a real apartment that you half-expect a plant you're responsible for. The top-floor suite has a terrace with a dining table. Staff know the neighborhood cold, which matters since breakfast is the only meal served here.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A row of potted cacti marks the entrance to this boutique hotel on a quiet Roma Norte block, and the colonial revival bones inside, spiral Baroque columns, terracotta floors, arched windows, do a lot of the decorating. No restaurant, no pool, no spa, but a keycode instead of a front desk, and common spaces that make it easy to forget you don't live here. The rooftop and courtyard handle morning coffee or evening mezcal before you wander one of the city's most stylish neighborhoods.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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On the third floor of a renovated downtown building, with Alameda Central park directly outside the windows, Chaya is a boutique bed and breakfast that quietly splits the difference between a stylish hotel and somewhere you'd actually want to live. Rooms go raw concrete and warm wood, with king beds that suggest someone thought seriously about sleep. Breakfast comes daily and made to order, Mexican classics included. The mezcal bar is downstairs, which is either a warning or a selling point.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The tables at this upscale seafood restaurant are cut from wood once used to haul boats, which tells you something about the kitchen's direction. Chef Alejandro Zarate transplants the honest, unfussy cooking of an Ensenada fish camp to Roma Norte, with a menu built for sharing: ceviches, aguachiles, tostadas, fish tacos, grilled octopus. High ceilings, iron beams, and a room full of people who knew to book ahead.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 58. CANA
Contemporary Mexican
A light-flooded bistro on Calle Liverpool where the room manages to feel elegant and relaxed at the same time, which is harder than it sounds. The short menu rotates with the seasons and leans into contemporary Mexican cooking, so what lands on the table shifts but the approach stays consistent. Small enough that the kitchen clearly means every dish, and the kind of place that works equally well for a quiet date or a louder table of friends.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 58. Cariñito Tacos
Southeast Asian Taqueria
Tacos served on dried corn husks instead of plates is a reasonable signal that this Roma Norte taqueria is doing something different. The white-tiled counter runs with quiet efficiency, and everything is made to order, which you can watch happening if you linger before grabbing a seat outside. The menu pulls from Southeast Asia as readily as Mexico, folding hoisin, sriracha, and nam jim jaew into flour tortillas without making a fuss about it.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 58. Gonzalitos
Northern-style Mexican
Northern-style tacos in Roma Norte, served from a small kitchen with a few tables and a sidewalk counter for overflow. The barbacoa de res is the reason to show up, and ordering it dorado-style, shallow fried until the tortilla crisps up, is the move most regulars make without thinking twice. The kitchen chooses flour or corn depending on the filling, and the whole operation stays refreshingly unbothered by the neighborhood around it.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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The open kitchen at this fine dining room in Roma Norte runs at a steady clip, turning out plates that wander confidently across borders: think charred mamey with foie gras, or yuzu beurre blanc over charcoal-cooked striped bass. The cooking is international but never unfocused, and the young team keeps the room warm without the stiffness that sometimes comes with white-tablecloth ambition. A good place to eat seriously without feeling like you're being graded.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 63. Cananea
Northern Cantina
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.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 63. Cantina El Sella
Mexican
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- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 36 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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Rank 63. Çuina
Mexican
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
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Rank 63. 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 63. 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 63. KillBill Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 63. Lempicka Bistro
Mexican-inspired French
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Rank 63. Pancracia
Mexican Bakery
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bakeries in Mexico City
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Rank 63. Roselle
Italian
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Rank 63. 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 63. Travieso
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 76. Por Siempre Vegana Taquería
Vegan Mexican
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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
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Rank 76. 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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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Tacos in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Rank 84. Bartola
Italian
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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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Rank 84. Butcher & Sons
Burger Joint
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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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Rank 84. Ladyboy
Thai Food Truck
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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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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Instead of listing origins, the menu here lists profiles: Paz runs balanced and caramel-sweet, Punk goes extravagant and juicy. It's a clever swap that tells you what you're drinking without the geography quiz. This Roma Norte coffee shop roasts its own beans, sources directly from growers in Colombia and Panama, and puts three percent of every sale toward regenerative agriculture. The blue tile bar and mosaic floor make it feel considered rather than decorated.
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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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- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City