📍 Centro, Mexico City

Mexico City's grandest old cantina, in business at this 5 de Mayo address since 1895 with Art Nouveau ceilings in gold leaf and a back bar said to have come from New Orleans. The h...

A sixth-floor terrace at the Zócalo Central hotel with a front-row balcony staring down the Metropolitan Cathedral and the main square. Chef Pepe Salinas — named CANIRAC Chef of th...

Down in the basement vault of a restored Art Deco bank in Centro Histórico, Zinco has been Mexico City's jazz address for nearly two decades. Crimson velvet, low club tables cluste...

Behind a red curtain in Centro Histórico, Bósforo is the dark, cramped, low-lit mezcal room that locals send you to. The selection runs deep on artisanal Oaxacan agave, and the sta...

Pulquería near the Centro, pouring since 1912 and wrapped wall-to-ceiling in psychedelic murals by Guillermo Carreño. The fermented-maguey pulque comes natural or in dozens of rota...

Taco Tasting Room built its concept as a contradiction to the street taco: no trompo spit, no salsas set out on the table, none of the noise of a street stall. It's a 14-seat bar i...

A family pozolería tucked into the San Camilito hall in the Centro, serving the hominy-and-pork stew with its full spread of garnishes near Plaza Garibaldi. It runs as a generation...

The rooftop of Grupo Habita's 25-room design hotel behind the Cathedral, a Design Hotels and Michelin Guide property in a 19th-century Centro building. The terrace pairs a plunge p...

Family-run pulquería on the edge of Plaza Garibaldi, going since 1936, with a terrace that looks straight out over the mariachi square. The pour is straight-up traditional pulque p...