Top 3
- Mercado lagunilla on sundays for the best thrifting of your life—make sure you go to the antique market and skip the rest
- Em restaurant for the best meal of your life
- Patrick miller for the best dance party……..of your life
Food
- Tetetlán • crazy beautiful restaurant next to Casa Pedregal
- Hugo • natural wine and good food
- Restaurante Sonia
- Anónimo colectivo • pasta baby
- Ciena
- Contramar • seafood
- Mielmesabe bakery • great cake
- Con vista al mar • seafood
- Buenavida Fonda
- Casa Virginia • fancy
Drinks/Dancing
- Yuyu • best techno
- Bosforo • mezcaleria with great music
- Sunday Sunday • rooftop dance party on Sundays. Hit or miss but it’s the one everyone talks about
- FUNK club
- Mama Rumba • salsa dancing
- San Luis Club • dancing and live music
- Japan club • house party vibes
- La clandestina • casual drinks
- Diaspora • once a month party
- Pervert • another every once in a while party that’s held in an abandoned prison
Spots
- Parque Mexico
- El Pendulo in Condesa • really pretty spot to work
- Mercado Michoacán • fresh market for groceries
- Museo Tamayo • art
- La Vintaje/Banzo • my friend's store!
- Anomalía • gallery with cool events
- Museo antropológico
I also really recommend knowing some basic spanish! you can get around with english but the locals really appreciate it when you try to speak their language.
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la docena - probably the best meal I had in Mexico was here… unreal seafood, the tuna and oysters were especially insane.
taqueria orinoco - this was the first place I went in Mexico City where I had insanely good tacos. Most of the best tacos I had in CDMX / my entire life were from random stalls all around the city and I don’t know if they had names. theses ones are a little expensive for Mexico City (they cost like $4 and you can definitely get better tacos for $0.25), but they’re really really good and filling.
lardo - this was another pricier spot but soooooo insanely good. menu is built around a wood fired oven on site and yeah I just remember having my mind blown consistently.
the open air markets around the city are massive and totally underrated. I could spend all day there just looking at all the crazy stuff. Skibidi toilet pinatas, anime girl statues, handwoven scarves that say Mexico on them but they’re made in Indonesia. it’s awesome.
Probably the most touristy thing I did was a boat tour in Xochimilco which was awesome. just a million guys getting hammered on beautiful boats in this canal/world heritage site. we were on a boat with two random families and an awesome tour guide who was studying for his MA in animal science and wanted to practice his Englis/make a bunch of money. At one point we paid a mariachi band to come on the boat and do a few songs it was unreal.
Also people are really really nice in general, but a lot of them don’t really speak english so locking in on your Duolingo is that’s essential.
oh also if you can get a reservation to see any of the Barragán houses you’ve gotta lock in they’re insane
Apr 4, 2024
I know it’s become really popular for Americans to travel to Mexico City, but my grandparents are from there, so stay off my ass. The first time I went was after my grandparents passed and it helped me feel a deeper connection to them and with the city. It’s beautiful and huge (6th largest city in the world!). Most tourists just spend time in Roma Norte and Condesa and they are amazing neighborhoods, but there’s so much outside of those towns. The very least you could do is go to the Teotihuacan Pyramids, spend a day in the historic center, and stop being a little b and eat some crickets. They are really high in nutrients. Much more sustainable than eating any meat! Check out as many Diego Rivera frescos as you can (ask someone near you the meaning behind them). There are lots of free walking tours that are pay by donation. There are a lot of really nice restaurants, but you can have some of the best tacos you’ve ever eaten for just a dollar. If you ask the locals their favorite tacos everyone has a different answer, because there are too many great options. I hope to go to Mexico City at least once a year.
Mar 21, 2025
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phenomenal coffee (dirty horchata is a new one they have), best burritos in the country, great used book store, one of the best parks, and that’s all in an afternoon, a short list of my faves
May 25, 2024
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Spring always brings it out of me. The buds on the trees! The breezy warmth! The tulips appearing where there was once only a small patch of dirt for dogs to piss on! Everything is incredible and awesome and absurd and I’m always so grateful for the moments I can get past my own relatively small problems to stand in awe of the world :,)
Apr 12, 2024
you choose a decade and a country and it gives you obscure music from that time and place. built from the private collections of djs and crate diggers all over the world, there are so many gems on here. bonus roadtrip game–play a song and make your car mate guess the country/decade
Feb 20, 2024
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I have lots and generally stopped overthinking them after my first one. In theory, permanently marking your body is seen as an eternal commitment that carries a ton of weight, but I’ve really benefitted from flipping that on its head and using tattoos as a practice to remind myself of the impermanence of life and of my body (we’re all going to die :)). Now I give them to myself with needles from amazon, I let friends tattoo me, I get them on a whim when I’m traveling. I think a lot of people are scared of carrying physical markers of all the different people they’ve been (myself included), but I think doing so is actually a great practice in self acceptance—carrying all those versions of you, on you, all the time, baring them for others to see. The ones I got 4 years ago that I wouldnt get today don’t bother me even though I no longer resonate with them; they’re a personal history of sorts. And because of the whole death thing, all tattoos are temporary :)
Mar 25, 2024