The Places · Mexico
Mexico City
Made By profiles 35 places in Mexico City, spanning bar, modern mexican fine dining, traditional mexican — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Quintonil
Mexico City, Mexico
Quintonil is one of Mexico City's defining modern Mexican dining rooms, with Jorge Vallejo's cooking placing native herbs, vegetables, masa, insects and local technique inside a contemporary tasting-menu format. Recognition includes Michelin two stars, Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, La Liste 96 points for 2026, and a 2026 Opinionated About Dining North America ranking at No. 35.
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02.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Pujol
Mexico City, Mexico
Pujol is Mexico City's benchmark modern Mexican dining room, led by Enrique Olvera and carrying Michelin two-star recognition, La Liste 98 points for 2026, and a long run on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. The experience sits in the high-price tier and is better understood as a national culinary reference point than as a simple tasting-menu stop.
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03.Bar
Handshake Speakeasy
Mexico City, Mexico
Handshake Speakeasy places Mexico City's cocktail scene in the global conversation through technical drinks, theatrical rooms, and major awards momentum. Its 2024 World's 50 Best Bars No. 1 ranking, North America's 50 Best Bars No. 1 placements in 2024 and 2025, and Tales Spirited Awards 2026 Top 10 Nominee status make it a serious reference point for modern agave-led barcraft.
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04.Bar
Licoreria Limantour
Mexico City, Mexico
Licorería Limantour helped define Mexico City’s modern cocktail culture from its Roma Norte address, with recognition across World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars, and Pearl Recommended Bar in 2025. Expect a high-volume room with serious technical control, Mexican-rooted drinks, and a playful approach to back-bar nostalgia.
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05.Mexican-Italian Fusion Fine Dining
Rosetta
Mexico City, Mexico
Rosetta places handmade pasta inside Mexico City’s contemporary Mexican conversation rather than treating it as imported Italian theatre. Elena Reygadas’s Roma Norte dining room carries Michelin recognition, La Liste scoring, OAD ranking, and World’s 50 Best history, but the stronger argument is on the plate: Italian technique used to rethink Mexican ingredients, seasonality, and plant-led cooking.
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06.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Sud 777
Mexico City, Mexico
Sud 777 operates from Jardines del Pedregal with a plant-forward Mexican kitchen that has earned a Michelin star and placed as high as #70 on the World's 50 Best list. Chef Edgar Núñez draws from an on-site vegetable garden to produce dishes that read simple on the plate but carry real technical depth. The wine list runs to 2,300 bottles with strong representation from Mexico, Italy, and California.
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07.Bar
Baltra Bar
Mexico City, Mexico
Ranked #20 in North America and #78 globally by World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Baltra Bar in Condesa has built a consistent presence at the top of Mexico City's cocktail scene over five consecutive years of recognition. Positioned on a quiet residential street in one of the city's most walkable neighbourhoods, it draws a crowd that takes its drinking seriously without the theatrics that define some of its peers.
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08.Bar
Kaito del Valle
Mexico City, Mexico
Kaito del Valle is an all-women-run bar in Mexico City's Juárez neighbourhood that blends Japanese izakaya culture with kawaii aesthetics. Ranked #40 in North America's Best Bars 2025 and holding a spot in the World's 50 Best Top 500, it has built a sustained presence on the international bar circuit. The bar recently moved to a new location on Hamburgo, keeping its place in one of the city's most concentrated drinking corridors.
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09.Bar
Bar Mauro
Mexico City, Mexico
Bar Mauro at Tabasco 149 in Roma Norte is one of Mexico City's most decorated cocktail bars, ranked #14 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 and #54 globally. With a 4.8 Google rating across 220 reviews, it sits in a comparable set that has reshaped what serious drinking looks like in CDMX, combining precise technique with the neighbourhood's low-key, walkable character.
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10.Bar
Hanky Panky
Mexico City, Mexico
Hanky Panky belongs to Mexico City's serious cocktail tier: a speakeasy-format bar with repeated 50 Best recognition, including No. 35 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 and No. 62 on Top 500 Bars 2026. Its identity sits between international cocktail technique and Mexican ingredient culture, making it useful for travelers comparing the city's bar scene beyond restaurant-led nightlife.
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11.Modern Mexican with French Influences
Máximo
Mexico City, Mexico
Máximo pairs modern Mexican with French influences and a sommelier-led, extensive wine list; Michelin gave it 1 Star in 2025 and 2026, with leisurely dinner pacing.
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12.Modern Japanese-Mexican Fusion
Em
Mexico City, Mexico
Em holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining North America ranking, operating out of a minimalist dining room on Tonalá in Roma Norte. Chef Lucho Martinez runs a seasonal omakase alongside an à la carte menu that draws on both Mexican and Japanese culinary frameworks. The kitchen opens five evenings a week, with service from Thursday through Monday.
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13.Modern Mexican Corn-Focused Taqueria
Expendio de Maíz
Mexico City, Mexico
Expendio de Maíz treats masa as Mexico City’s main event rather than a supporting act. Its small communal-table format, chef Jesús Salas Tornés’s corn-led cooking, Michelin recognition, and repeated Opinionated About Dining placements put it in the city’s serious casual tier, closer to a study of tortilla craft than a conventional restaurant script.
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14.Modern Mexican-Peruvian Fusion
Esquina Común
Mexico City, Mexico
Esquina Común holds a Michelin star for two consecutive years at its Condesa address on Fernando Montes de Oca, where Guy Ravet frames Mexico City's taco, tostada, and street-food traditions inside a sit-down restaurant format. At a mid-range price point for starred dining in the capital, it occupies an accessible but serious tier in the city's growing recognition story.
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15.Michelin-Starred Traditional Taqueria
Taquería El Califa de León
Mexico City, Mexico
A Michelin-starred taquería on Avenida Ribera de San Cosme, Taquería El Califa de León holds one of the most discussed addresses in Mexico City's dining conversation, not because it reimagines the taco, but because it validates it. Priced at the lowest tier of the city's award-winning restaurants, it sits in a category of its own: street-register cooking recognised at the same table as the fine-dining establishments on its Michelin page.
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16.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Gaba
Mexico City, Mexico
Gaba sits on Avenida Mazatlán in Colonia Condesa, where chef Gabrielle LeGuerrier has built a Mexican kitchen that earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 after a Michelin Plate the year before. The cooking sits in the same price tier as <a href='https://www.enprimeurclub.com/restaurants/em-mexico-city-restaurant'>Em</a> but operates with a different register: more personal, more neighbourhood-rooted, and less format-driven than the city's tasting-menu circuit.
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17.Traditional Mexican Fine Dining
Nicos
Mexico City, Mexico
Open since 1957, Nicos in Claveria has held a consistent place on the Opinionated About Dining North America rankings, sitting at #69 in 2024 and #94 in 2025, while carrying a Michelin Plate. Under Chef Gerardo Vázquez Lugo, the kitchen anchors itself in regional Mexican traditions and local sourcing, operating as a counter-argument to the capital's tasting-menu circuit.
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18.Contemporary Mexican Bakery
Panadería Rosetta
Mexico City, Mexico
Panadería Rosetta occupies a converted Roma Norte townhouse and operates as the more accessible sibling to Elena Reygadas's flagship restaurant. Its ranking on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats list, climbing from #127 in 2023 to #51 in 2025, marks it as one of the most consistently recognised bakeries in North America. The draw is baked goods grounded in Mexican ingredients, served across hours that run from early morning through evening.
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19.Modern Mexican Seafood
Contramar
Mexico City, Mexico
Contramar occupies a different tier from Mexico City's tasting-menu circuit, operating as a high-frequency seafood room in Colonia Roma that has held Opinionated About Dining's North America top-100 ranking three consecutive years and earned a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand. At $$ pricing, it draws a cross-section of regulars who return not for ceremony but for consistency: the kind of restaurant that becomes part of a neighbourhood's weekly rhythm.
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20.Bar
Fifty Mils
Mexico City, Mexico
Fifty Mils sits inside the Four Seasons Mexico City on Paseo de la Reforma, holding a ranked position in both the World's 50 Best Bars (No. 45 in 2018) and the Top 500 Bars list (No. 114 in 2025). The bar's design-forward environment and technically driven cocktail program place it at the serious end of Mexico City's bar scene, drawing an international crowd alongside local regulars with precise standards.
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21.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Lorea
Mexico City, Mexico
On a quiet stretch of Roma Norte, Lorea has earned a place among Mexico's most closely watched modern restaurants, ranking #40 in Opinionated About Dining's North America list in 2025 and holding a Michelin Plate across consecutive years. Chef Oswaldo Oliva runs a tasting-format program that treats Mexican ingredients with technical precision, making it a considered choice for occasion dining in a city full of serious tables.
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22.Modern Mexican Corn-Focused
Molino El Pujol
Mexico City, Mexico
Molino El Pujol sits at the accessible end of Enrique Olvera's Mexico City operation, operating as a tortillería in Hipódromo Condesa with Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in both 2024 and 2025. Where Pujol prices against the city's tasting-menu tier, Molino occupies the single-dollar bracket, an intentional gap, not an afterthought. Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats list has ranked it among North America's notable value addresses three consecutive years.
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23.Traditional Mexican
Comedor Jacinta
Mexico City, Mexico
A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder on Polanco's Virgilio street, Comedor Jacinta earns consistent recognition from both Michelin and Opinionated About Dining for accessible Mexican cooking that punches above its price tier. Open from breakfast through late night most days, it occupies the productive middle ground between neighbourhood staple and critically tracked destination, a combination that remains genuinely difficult to sustain in one of the world's most competitive dining cities.
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24.Modern Baja California Mexican
MeroToro
Mexico City, Mexico
MeroToro brings Baja California's coastal tradition to Condesa's tree-lined streets, with a menu built around seafood and grilled meat that has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition from 2023 through 2025 and a 2025 Michelin Plate. Chef Jair Téllez keeps the format accessible at mid-range pricing while the kitchen delivers technically precise Mexican cooking. Reservations are accepted daily from 1 pm.
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25.Traditional Mexican
Azul Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico
Azul Histórico occupies a Colonial-era courtyard on Isabel La Católica in Centro Histórico, where Ricardo Muñoz Zurita has spent decades cataloguing and cooking the regional traditions of Mexican cuisine. Recognised by La Liste in both 2025 and 2026, it draws on fire-rooted cooking methods, barbacoa, slow braises, wood-charred preparations, to present a menu grounded in documentation rather than reinvention. Open daily from 9am to 11pm, it serves one of the area's more serious all-day Mexican kitchens.
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26.Modern Oaxacan Mexican
Los Danzantes Mexico City
Mexico City, Mexico
On the edge of Parque Centenario in Coyoacán, Los Danzantes occupies a different register from Mexico City's Polanco fine-dining circuit. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in North America in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in the mid-price tier alongside Rosetta and Comedor Jacinta rather than against the four-dollar-sign bracket. Chef Alex Burgos leads a kitchen rooted in Mexican tradition.
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27.Modern Mexican Taqueria
Siembra Tortillería
Mexico City, Mexico
Siembra Tortillería is a Polanco tortillería that has earned back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025, placing it among the few casual-format venues in Mexico City where the quality of nixtamal and masa is treated with the same seriousness as the food served at the city's four-dollar-sign counters. Led by Karina Mejía and Israel Montero, it operates at the accessible end of the price spectrum without conceding on craft.
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28.Bar
Form + Matter
Mexico City, Mexico
Form + Matter brings Roma Norte’s cocktail scene into a more technical register: lab work, clarified textures, fat-washing and low-waste prep rather than speakeasy theatre. Its 2026 Tales Spirited Awards Regional Top 10 Honoree nod for Best International Bar Team in Latin America & Caribbean places it inside the city’s serious bar conversation.
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29.Modern Thai
Galanga Thai House
Mexico City, Mexico
Holding a 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmand, Galanga Thai House brings regional Thai cooking, northeast Isan, central plains, and southern dishes, to a bamboo-lined courtyard in Roma Norte. Chef Ana Somsri Raksamran's kitchen sources with evident care, and the results show in green curries with genuine herbaceous depth and khao niew ma muang that arrives as a proper dessert. A rare address in a city that runs almost entirely on its own culinary tradition.
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30.Traditional Mexican Tacos
Tacos Los Alexis
Mexico City, Mexico
A two-time Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient on a Roma Norte side street, Tacos Los Alexis represents the tier of Mexico City street cooking that Michelin inspectors now take seriously: high-frequency, low-cost, and precise. Rated 4.4 across nearly 400 Google reviews, it sits in the price bracket where the city's taco tradition is most concentrated and most competitive.
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31.Modern Mexican Gastronomy
Filigrana
Mexico City, Mexico
Filigrana brings Martha Ortiz's vision of Mexican cuisine to Colonia Roma at a price point that earned back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025. The kitchen draws on coastal and regional traditions, positioning the restaurant within Roma Norte's broader shift toward serious Mexican cooking at accessible prices. With 1,106 Google reviews averaging 4.5 stars, it holds steady as one of the neighbourhood's more consistent addresses.
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32.Modern Mexican Fine Dining
Pargot
Mexico City, Mexico
Pargot has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for two consecutive years, placing it among Roma Norte's most consistent Mexican tables at the accessible end of the city's mid-range. On Córdoba 212, chef Alexis Ayala works within a format that prioritises value and culinary honesty, qualities that have made the address a reference point in one of Mexico City's most food-saturated neighbourhoods.
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33.Modern Italian-Mediterranean
Galea
Mexico City, Mexico
Galea brings Italian cooking to Colonia Roma with enough conviction to earn consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025. Chef Jorge Vallejo's kitchen operates at the accessible end of the city's recognised dining tier, holding its own against Roma's growing Italian scene. The $$ price point makes it one of the more compelling value propositions among Michelin-acknowledged tables in Mexico City.
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Monstruo de Agua Agrotaberna
Mexico City, Mexico
Monstruo de Agua's Agrotaberna is the Mexico City taproom for the microbrewery's ingredient-driven hybrid beers.
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35.Bar
Tout Chocolat
Mexico City, Mexico
On Ámsterdam in the Hipódromo neighbourhood, Tout Chocolat occupies a specific corner of Mexico City's specialty chocolate culture, the kind of address where the ritual of choosing, tasting, and understanding cacao drives the visit as much as any single product. The shop draws from a European chocolatier tradition while working within a city that takes its pre-Hispanic cacao heritage seriously, placing it at an interesting tension point between both worlds.
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