Restaurants in North Of Mexico City
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Reforma
Despite looking like a grand old-world place from the street, inside Reforma is as relaxed as can be. With vinyl booths and large portions of decent – if uninspired – fare, both the food and decor are diner-esque, which isn’t a bad thing if you’re in the market for an affordable, hearty meal.
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Mi Antiguo Café
A friendly place to drink coffee with the locals, this busy café on the eastern side of the zócalo serves crepes, good espresso, breakfasts and a decent set lunch (M$60).
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Vegetarian Restaurant
Up a narrow stairwell beside the market, this literally named, hole-in-the-wall restaurant serves excellent vegetarian food in a spare, three-table dining room. A generous main dish – Veracruz-style ‘fish’ (made with mushrooms), wheat-gluten milanesa (pounded, breaded, fried meat) , soy chorizo, chiles rellenos (stuffed chilies) and whatever else the yoga-instructor-owner-chef feels like cooking on a given day – comes with fresh wholewheat bread, fruit juice, salad with peanut dressing and your choice of sopa (broth soup) or crema (cream soup).
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Restaurante y Cabañas San Diego
Set off from the highway beside a rushing creek on the way into town (look for signs at the turnoff to El Paraíso), San Diego is a true mountain escape. At this simple pine-shack restaurant, you can watch as your meal – phenomenal fresh trout – is caught and prepared in one of nine ways. The ‘a la mexicana, ’ stuffed with Oaxacan cheese, onions, tomatoes, green and orange chilies and thick chunks of garlic, is excellent. There are two cabins available for rent, one smaller (up to four people, M$700) than the other (up to 10 people, M$1800).
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Aldamary Marisquería
Across the street from the main bus station, this bustling marisquería serves amazingly fresh seafood – including shrimp empanadas, oyster cocktails, stuffed crab, molcajetes (seared meats and vegetables cooked in a large, stone mortar), and eight kinds of soup – to a grateful local crowd. Despite its unlikely location in a provincial capital in the Mexican highlands, far from the nearest ocean, prices are surprisingly affordable – various kinds of fish or shrimp prepared any way you like them for M$35 to M$55.
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Restaurant Techinanco
A fair walk from Gate 3, behind the Pirámide de la Luna, this homey restaurant serves excellent home cooking at comparatively reasonable prices. The small menu takes in local favorites from tacos fritos (fried tacos) to enchiladas, authentic homemade moles (chili-sauce dishes) and other traditional fare. Ask the ebullient owner, Emma (nicknamed Maya), about her curative massage (from M$600); call 24 hours in advance to arrange a temascal for up to 10 people (around M$3000).
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Casa Gutiérrez
This fantastic new white-tablecloth restaurant serves creative, well-executed ‘high Mexican’ cuisine, including perfect Baja-style fish tacos, molcajetes, crab empanadas ,huitlacoche (corn fungus) omelets and – a true Mexican rarity – excellent salads. From the 2nd-story terrace, sip a martini or artisanal tea and watch lightning splash across the horizon.
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Mina la Blanca Restaurant Bar
Pachuca’s most famous eatery, La Blanca has been serving traditional hidalguense food – including pastes and a mean caldo de hongo (mushroom soup) – since 1953. The walls, adorned with black-and-white photos of Pachuca’s past, speak to this storied history. This is also the best place to come for a drink in the evening.
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Mesón de Los Ángeles
This homey hole-in-the-wall, with old photos plastered across its tiled blue-and-white interior, is a great, home-style place to grab a quick bite – from flavorful tacos to mole verde (pumpkin seed, walnut, almond, lettuce and tomatillo suace), picadillo (ground beef) or tinga (tangy stew), everything here is authentic.
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Restaurant la Gruta
Set in a vast cave a short distance from Gate 5 (don’t be put off by the sign on the path that says it’s 500m away; it’s a misprint), this white-tablecloth, tourist-centric restaurant is unapologetically gimmicky. Yet the food, while pricey, is surprisingly good and there’s live music on weekend afternoons. Reservations are worthwhile.
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La Hostería del Convento de Tepotzotlán
Housed within the monastery’s bougainvillea-walled courtyard, La Hostería serves traditional brunch and lunch fare – hearty soups, young chicken with manzano chilies, and cecina adobada (Oaxacan-style chili-marinated pork) – to an elite clientele. On Sunday, there’s often a crowd, as well as live music.
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Mana
This simple vegetarian restaurant serves a generous menu del día (menu of the day) that includes wholewheat bread, vegetable soup and a pitcher of natural fruit juice. There’s also a selection of veggie burgers, taquitos, quesadillas, soups and salads. Everything’s fresh, hearty and adamantly homemade.
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Taquería la Dueña
Just behind Posada San José, this popular taquería (taco place) serves a delicious range of tacos and asadas (grilled meats) at market prices. The wafting smell of smoky, grilled meats – along with the hordes of happy carnivores – makes la Dueña hard to miss.
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Restaurant-Bar Pepe
Facing the Iglesia de San Francisco Javier across the zócalo, Pepe’s place has a great terrace and an intimate, gently buzzing interior. Specialties include camarones empanizados (breaded shrimp) and there are good breakfasts for around M$65.
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Restaurant Casablanca
While admittedly rather sterile – even Sanbornsesque – Casablanca has a full menu of Mexican standards, a good buffet and wi-fi. Just off the zócalo, it’s one of the few sit-down options downtown, making it popular with business people and travelers alike.
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