On Saturdays, hit Colonia Polanco for its open-air market. The range of produce and goods on display is impressive, but the real destination is a several-block-long stretch of street-food vendors.
known as the “chef’s market” for quality and diversity, overflowing with morels from Morelos, cardamom from Chiapas, and countless varieties of the chiles, corn, and beans that define Mexican cuisin
a former street stand that’s grown to fill the old covered market around it - menu includes abalone ceviche, huge “chocolate” clams served raw, and the city’s best aguachile, a fiery shellfish ceviche
BA: Las Duelistas has slung nothing but the stuff–plain, and in spiked curados like celery and peanut–for over a century. Now hipsters drink alongside elderly regulars under neo-Aztec ceiling murals.
chef Edgar Núñez has opened an organic juice bar and sandwich shop with a small market featuring local products from around the D.F. area.
EATER: Be sure to try the chile relleno de quesillo y chorizo, a poblano pepper stuffed with Oaxacan cheese and chorizo, as well as pulpo en barbacoa parrillado, barbacoa-style grilled octopus.
the city’s best take on elevated home cooking. ORDER THE: tostadas de charales, rose-petal and strawberry salad, sopa seca de natas, pulpos a la antigua (octopi in their ink with nuts and red wine).
Lugo is also a partner in Fonda Mayora, which brings the same philosophy to the more-convenient-for-most Condesa hood, trading Nico’s old-school formality for breezier vibes
traditional DF cantina of the future looks like. The menu nods to the exhaustive selections of traditional cantinas and to a restaurant-savvy clientele
casual, authentic Oaxacan. empanadas de mole verde & mole amarillo, mole negro, enfrijoladas (in a bean sauce infused with anisey avocado leaf), and the tlayudas
order the beef tartare with sardine; soft-shell crab; simple grilled fish; and Baja-made wines from Bichi or Vena Cava
Super fresh seafood tostadas, tacos, and ceviches on a roving food truck, Track the location of Barra Vieja via its Twitter handle: @barra_vieja
