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The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Condesa & around

  1. Cesar Pelli's Torre Libertad glass tower on the Paseo de la Reforma is a hard building to miss, and the St. Regis fills its upper floors with the kind of service that other hotels quietly gave up on years ago. Every guest gets a dedicated butler around the clock, the staff learns your name fast, and the rooms come with deep soaking tubs and city views that stretch to the mountains on a clear day. A Forbes Four Star hotel.


  2. A courtyard garden with a classical fountain sits at the center of this Reforma luxury hotel, giving the whole place the quiet logic of a colonial estate dropped into one of the city's busiest corridors. Rooms are calm and neutral, bathrooms run to sunken tubs and Floris products, and the pool deck overlooks a second tucked-away courtyard. Fifty Mils downstairs has its own following. Forbes Four Star.


  3. Floors 37 through 47 of one of the city's tallest towers, with floor-to-ceiling windows aimed straight at Reforma Avenue and Chapultepec Park. This luxury hotel puts you so far above the neighboring skyline that Mexico City stops feeling chaotic and starts feeling almost legible. The spa, indoor pool, and a rooftop cocktail bar keep you happily on-property, though the whole point is the view that greets you every time you look up.


  4. Seven suites, each named for a natural element, fill this Condesa boutique hotel with whitewashed walls, carved wood, and linen so soft it feels like a design decision. Mexican designer Roberta Maceda built the place around the same quiet restraint as her clothing line, and it shows. Breakfast goes out under a guava tree in the courtyard. The rooftop is guests-only, which at sunset, with Baja natural wines in hand, feels like a reasonable trade. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

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  5. A concrete Brutalist tower one block from Paseo de la Reforma, Volga is a design hotel that earns its Michelin Key through sheer aesthetic commitment. Contemporary art fills every corner, and the architecture doesn't quietly step aside for it; the two argue pleasantly. Rooms are subtly luxe, spa treatments come to you, and a small rooftop pool sits on top of it all. The on-site restaurant is a Mediterranean concept from a Japanese-Mexican group, which is very Mexico City.

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  6. A converted 1930s mansion in Colonia Condesa, Casa Cuenca fits ten rooms into a space that still feels like someone's very well-designed home. Custom built-ins, handmade tiles, and woven rugs lean into modernist Mexican design without veering into museum territory. Some rooms have private terraces; the Presidencial suite overlooks the courtyard. The bar pours artisanal mezcal, the on-site bistro draws a crowd, and the neighborhood does the rest.

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  7. A converted 1950s apartment block in Condesa, Hotel Dama is a boutique hotel that leans into its mid-century bones rather than apologizing for them. The sunken library lounge with mod built-in sofas and pre-Hispanic artwork sets the tone; the jacaranda-shaded rooftop terrace with an all-day café keeps it. Rooms have checkered marble floors, bespoke wooden furniture, and private balconies, which is the kind of thing that makes you want to stay an extra night.

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