Country guide
Iconic restaurants
in Mexico
A personal selection of 3 memorable dining rooms in Mexico: places chosen for their architecture, history, atmosphere and enduring sense of place.
Mexico City, MexicoCafé de Tacuba
A vivid, still-functioning stage for Mexican decorative arts, music, public history and everyday hospitality.
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Mexico City, MexicoSanborns Casa de los Azulejos
Few everyday restaurants inhabit architecture of this calibre. A full Mexican meal is served inside one of the capital’s most recognisable Baroque palaces, making the building part of ordinary city life rather than a sealed monument.
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Mexico City, MexicoLa Ópera
It combines a genuinely spectacular nineteenth-century interior with Mexico City’s cantina culture and a full restaurant menu—grand, theatrical and rooted in the political and literary history of the capital.
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