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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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Tepito
The mother of all street markets, Tepito is a maze of semi-permanent stalls spreading east and north from La Lagunilla, with miles of clothes, pirated CDs and DVDs, and electronics. It's also known as the Thieves' Market for its black market goods and pickpockets.
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Tianguis Cultural del Chopo
One of the weirder street markets in town, the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo is a gathering place for the city's various youth subcultures. Punks, goths, metalheads and all the other urban tribes gravitate here each Saturday to buy and trade CDs, hear live bands, find out about upcoming events and exchange ideas. It is the city's counter-cultural heart.
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Via Spiga
One of four Via Spiga stores in the city all specializing in classic and high-fashion men's and women's shoes and boots, with imports from Brazil and Italy. Coordinate your look with a snazzy leather bag and belt.
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Vilebrequin
Top up your swimming trunks collection here, a French company with a sense of humor. They come with every imaginable design, including flowers, stripes, birds and flocks of sheep (handy for counting if you can't sleep). You can even buy an oh-so-cute matching towel.
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Zembu
You can buy your hubble-bubble pipe direct from Cairo here (around $680 ), plus the flower and fruit tobaccos, including rose, kiwi, melon, lemon and grape (around $50 ). Alternatively, purchase a puff (or three) for around M$20.
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Zinik
There are plenty of one-offs here if you are pencil thin and looking for urban chic fashion to dazzle them on the dance floor, including tit-tight tops, skimpy skirts, jeans and sequined (or similar) dresses. Top off the outfit with some killer multicolored boots.
