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Bene Pasta
Somehow you don't associate Mexico with homemade pasta, although this company has been going for some 100 years. As you would expect, the pasta is wonderfully colorful: fusilli coils of red, purple, green and orange. If this sounds too much of an indigestible dazzle, they also sell traditional white, plus jars of homemade sauce.
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Bodega De Quesos
Join the line of cheese-lovers at this corner shop, with its vast choice of national and international cheeses, including requesón from Chiapas, creamy Brie, Camembert, feta, gorgonzola, fresh mozzarella, parmesan and the costly cured Spanish Manchego (at around $440 per kilo).
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Briguette
Fabulous locally produced chocolates with flavors like tea, kiwi, lavender, marzipan and pistachio, mixed spices and creamy truffle. You can buy one or two or float away on a chocoholic cloud and pick up a couple of hundred grams of your favorites.
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Dulcería de Celaya
This traditional candy store has operated since 1874, offering delicate Mexican sweets such as candied fruits, sugared almonds, crystallized strawberries and coconut-stuffed lemons. These treats aren't cheap, but they're worth the splurge. If you're not a sweet tooth, go for a look at the ornate building.
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Green Corner
This natural food store stocks everything you could possibly shake a carrot stick at, including organic juices, tofu, nuts and dried fruits, whole-wheat pasta (a rarity here), organic spreads, jams and herbal teas. There's a restaurant, too.
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La Divina
Enter the revolving door to be confronted by shelf upon shelf of more than 200 different brands of tequila, plus everything else guaranteed to put hair on your chest. There are fancy gift packs available and, if the garish signs are to be believed, everything is permanently cut price.
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La Europea
Your friends won't respect you if you come home from Mexico with anything less than a suitcase full of tequila. Luckily, La Europea has a big selection of reasonably priced tequilas and Mexican wines to help you get loco .
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La Truffe
Lots of imported and local gourmet goodies, including cheese, wine, pasta, mustards, pickles, jams, dried chilies, organic marmalades and jams. La Truffe also organizes wine tasting events.
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La Villa De Madrid
An institution in these parts, this is where homesick Spaniards come to stock up on their Manchego cheese and Marques de Cáceres vintages. You can also buy imported fino (sherry) here, plus a wide range of tequilas and liquors.
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La Vina Del Sol
There are 100-plus tequilas to select from here, including grand reserves, gift packs with glasses and the more pedestrian plonk. Take a tequila maestro along, if you can, to help you make your selection, or ask the assistant nicely in your best Spanish.
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Super Soya
A whole-foods shop where you can find all the normal healthy fare, including various nutty breads and biscuits, soy products, natural vitamins and minerals, sugarless sweets and invigorating power snacks for keeping up your pavement-pounding momentum.
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