Most Iconic Restaurants

Mexican Cultural Icon · Since 1912

Café de Tacuba

Mexico City, Mexico · Historic Restaurant & Café

Café de Tacuba, an iconic historic restaurant & café in Mexico City

The story

Café de Tacuba opened in 1912 inside a seventeenth-century palace. Talavera tiles, colonial paintings, vaulted rooms and strolling musicians have framed more than a century of Mexico City life, including the wedding banquet of Diego Rivera and Guadalupe Marín.

Why Café de Tacuba is iconic

A vivid, still-functioning stage for Mexican decorative arts, music, public history and everyday hospitality.

Selected by Ernst Aben · Information reviewed July 2026