Contemporary Mexican · Polanco · Two MICHELIN Stars (Mexico 2024); World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024
Enrique Olvera's Polanco landmark, open since 2000 and the restaurant that pushed modern Mexican fine dining onto the world stage — now holding two stars in Mexico's first Michelin guide. The signatur...
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Quintonil
Contemporary Mexican · Polanco · Two MICHELIN Stars (Mexico 2024); World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 (#3)
Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores opened Quintonil in 2012 and have climbed to #3 on the 2025 World's 50 Best with two Michelin stars to match. The seasonal tasting menu leans hard on heirloom vegeta...
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Rosetta
Mexican-Italian · Roma Norte · One MICHELIN Star (Mexico 2024); Elena Reygadas — World's Best Female Chef 2023
Elena Reygadas cooks Mexican ingredients through an Italian lens inside a restored Roma Norte townhouse, open since 2010 and holding a Michelin star. Reygadas trained at Locanda Locatelli and was name...
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Contramar
Seafood · Roma Norte
Gabriela Cámara's 1998 Roma Norte seafood room is the city's defining lunch — bright, loud, packed daily. The tuna tostada and the pescado a la talla (a whole butterflied fish painted half red, half g...
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Sud 777
Contemporary Mexican · Jardines del Pedregal · One MICHELIN Star (Mexico 2024)
Edgar Núñez's vegetable-forward kitchen in the leafy southern district of Jardines del Pedregal, open since 2008 and Michelin-starred in the 2024 guide. French technique meets Mexican produce through ...
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Máximo Bistrot
Mexican-French · Roma Norte · One MICHELIN Star (Mexico)
Eduardo 'Lalo' García and Gabriela López opened Máximo in 2011 and moved it to a bigger Álvaro Obregón space in 2020; it carries a Michelin star. The seasonal, market-driven menu changes with whatever...
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Meroma
Mediterranean-Mexican · Roma Norte
Mercedes Bernal and Rodney Cusic — who met at the French Culinary Institute in New York — opened Meroma in Roma Norte in 2017. The seasonal menu leans contemporary Mediterranean over Mexican produce, ...
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Bar Mauro
Cocktail Bar · Roma Norte · North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 (#2)
A Roma Norte ode to 1970s Milanese aperitivo from founder Mauro Mendoza, built on Italian vermouths and amari. Bitter classics get reworked locally — the Negroni 1929 with cacao nibs and strawberry, t...
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Tlecān
Mezcalería · Roma Norte · North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 (#5); World's 50 Best Bars 2025 (#23)
Tlecān — Nahuatl for 'place of fire' — is a Roma Norte mezcalería built around pre-Hispanic agave culture, pouring small-producer distillates with a focus on female mezcaleras. Cocktails lean on ancie...
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Handshake Speakeasy
Cocktail Bar · Juárez · North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 (#12); World's 50 Best Bars 2024 (#1 — World's Best Bar)
Hidden behind a black door marked '13' in a Juárez hotel, Handshake seats 32 for 90-minute sittings of lab-driven cocktails built on Mexican agave and house infusions — Once Upon a Time in Oaxaca with...