Restaurants in Puebla
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Super Tortas Puebla
Marinated chilies, carrots and onions spice up the basic breakfasts and super sandwiches at this cozy nook. Feeling lazy? Call for delivery.
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Fonda La Mexicana
This unassuming eatery serves a great mole poblano, plus a set lunch with a few options and other good-value Puebla and Oaxaca specialties.
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La Poblana
Around the corner from the Museo Amparo, this small, friendly place whips up (and delivers) a dozen styles of authentic Puebla cemitas (a type of sandwich with meat and cheese).
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Tacos Tony
Follow your nose – or ring for delivery – for a torta or pan árabe taco (made with pita bread instead of tortillas), stuffed with seasoned pork sliced from a trio of enormous grilling cones.
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Las Brujas
Near Callejón de los Sapos, this fantastic hipster café is popular with local students and serves up a mean plate of tacos al pastor and an endless stream of ice-cold beers. A great hangout with good live music in the evenings.
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All Day Cafe
This café-cum-bar off the Plazuela de los Sapos serves a range of sandwiches, salads, pastries, coffees and cocktails all day long (as the name suggests). Housed in a bright courtyard, this student hangout turns into a club in the evenings.
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Amalfi Pizzeria
It’s easy to see why this excellent pizzeria – with dim lighting, terracotta walls and wood-beamed ceilings – is a popular date spot. In addition to the fine, thin-crust pies, there’s a good selection of wine and other traditional Italian dishes.
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Vittorio's
Despite being somewhat pricey, this Italian bar-restaurant on the zócalo is always busy with locals and visitors alike. The pizzas are good, there's a great atmosphere and sidewalk seating, not to mention live music on Friday and Saturday.
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Casa Puebla
This eccentric café features effigies of such luminaries as Fidel Castro, Marilyn Monroe, Gandhi and Napoleon sitting around drinking and smoking together on the walls. It's another popular place on the zócalo and does excellent breakfasts.
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La Matraca
Set in the attractive courtyard of a former colonial mansion, La Matraca is popular for its all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast (M$39), filling lunches and a dinner menu featuring poblana classics. The food here is nothing special, but the buffet is so easy and so cheap it’s easy to see the budget appeal.
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El Mural de Los Poblanos
Set back from the street in a gorgeous, plant-filled colonial courtyard, El Mural de los Poblanos serves excellent, traditional poblano dishes in an elegant setting. The house specialty is five kinds of mole. Other favorites include the smoky goat-cheese-stuffed ancho chile relleno (dried Poblano chili) and the trilogy of cemitas.
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Restaurant Sacristía
Set in the delightful colonial patio of the Mesón Sacristía de la Compañía, this is an elegant place for a meal of authentic mole and creative twists on rich poblano cuisine, or a cocktail or coffee and dessert in the intimate Confesionario bar. Live piano and violin soloists lend a romantic ambience most nights from around 9pm. If you like what you taste, inquire about the small-group cooking classes.
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La Zanahoria
This entirely meat-free godsend for vegetarians is a great place for lunch, moments from the zócalo and the Museo Amparo. The restaurant is split into two – the express service area (including a juice bar and a health food shop) in the front and the more relaxed service of the spacious interior colonial courtyard where everything from veggie hamburguesas to nopales rellenos (stuffed cactus paddles) are served up.
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Las Ranas
A true local institution, this is the place to try one of Puebla’s great dishes: the taco árabe (Arabic tacos). At Las Ranas, you’ll find unbelievably moist al pastor (shepherd-style) pork. Marinated and spit-grilled, then rolled in fresh, slightly charred Middle Eastern–style flat bread, these tacos are as simple as they are unforgettable. Both the main restaurant and its annex across the street, El Patio de Las Ranas, are perpetually full, but the food – especially at this price – is worth the wait.
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Fonda de Santa Clara
main branch (Av 3 Pte 920); second branch (Av 3 Pte 307) This classic poblano restaurant, founded in the 1960s, focuses on local seasonal specialties, from maguey worms to grasshoppers. If you’re not of the bug-eating persuasion, there’s plenty of standard comida poblana on offer, including enchiladas and chicken mole. The main branch of this growing chain (there are now restaurants in DF and Tampico) is housed in a well-restored colonial mansion.
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