Restaurants in San Miguel De Allende
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Vía Orgánica
This healthy option – a café and vegetable shop – is part of the not-for-profit Mexican organization, Vía Orgánica. The organic produce is grown by local farmers. The café’s menu delights the taste buds; think minestrone soups, salads, and some of the best cakes around. Vía Orgánica also runs permaculture/farming workshops. Follow your nose north along Hidalgo. Veer right onto Calzada de la Aurora, first left into Talavera and first left again.
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La Capilla
This elegant restaurant's atmosphere and location - in a former chapel of the parroquia - is unbeatable. The restaurant's fairy-lighted rooftop terrace affords romantic and spectacular sunset views. The menu, which offers truly international cuisine doesn't always live up to the location's lofty heights; it gets mixed reviews. Downstairs there's a classy café-bar and counter selling quality chocolates.
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La Posadita
This enjoyable eatery gets five stars for its excellent service, Mexican fare, and location – near the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel. Head up a steep set of stairs to the restaurant or the wonderful rooftop terrace with great vistas. It serves delicious margaritas, enchiladas and meat dishes.
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Los Burritos
You definitely don’t head here for the decor (although note the carved donkey heads on the chairs), but instead for the vast array of cheap antojitos and the mouthwatering, made-to-order guisados (fillings) from mole to chipotle (a type of chili) and potato.
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Bugambilia
Said to be one of the oldest surviving restaurants in San Miguel. Indeed, it offers a traditional experience in a lovely bougainvillea-filled patio setting. It’s famous for chiles en nogada (stuffed chilies, fried in batter and served with creamy sauce) but receives mixed reviews.
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El Ten Ten Pie
This unpretentious hangout is a great choice for home-style Mexican cooking with superb chili sauces – at a less spicy price. Try the inexpensive set lunch (M$110) or the tortillas stuffed with delicious fillings. Excellent breakfasts and veggie options.
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Café Olé Olé
Charge in to this brightly decorated restaurant – bullfighting posters, matador jackets and massive bull heads adorn the walls. It’s been eternally popular for its grilled chicken, beef fajitas and arrachera (flank steak) .
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El Tomato
One of the few wholly vegetarian places, the Tomato serves healthy light meals such as pasta, whole-wheat sandwiches and salads, using fresh and tasty organic ingredients. There are also fresh-squeezed juices and a good-value set lunch.
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Bella Italia
Rome meets San Miguel in this smart, slightly old-fashioned place set within an attractive courtyard. Think hand-made pasta, mussels in white wine and grilled lamb chops - just as Mama used to make. Excellent musicians perform nightly.
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El Buen Café
This simple place does excellent healthy breakfasts, Mexican specialties and sweet home-baked gourmet-style goodies. Think French toast with blackberry sauce, or thick oatmeal topped with blackberries and crème brûlée.
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Tío Lucas
This stylish place with a silver-star-covered courtyard is known for its beef, especially the fillet steak, and for being ‘reliable.’ Happy hour runs from 6pm to 8pm Monday to Thursday, and there’s live blues or jazz nightly.
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Café de la Parroquia
Expats love this place for its tranquil and shaded courtyard setting with a fountain and reliable food. In the evening it morphs into La Brasserie (open from 5pm to 10pm Tuesday to Saturday; mains M$70 to M$160).
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Rincón de Don Tomás
An oldie but a goody. This long-standing joint has a solid following and a menu of classic Mexican dishes such as chicken with moles and cordites. Given its position on the Jardín, it’s not bad value.
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The Restaurant
Perfect for a treat. The menu of this stylish place is thoroughly international (with occasional Mexican influences), featuring seasonal, organic produce. It’s set within a patio of a colonial building.
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Chamonix
The pretty garden atmosphere at this restaurant offers a more upmarket, yet relaxed setting and a high-quality international menu and regional specialties. Organic produce is used where possible.
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Berlin
Stop in this cool, artsy spot for a tasty blend of German and international food. The bar is very Euro and if you eavesdrop, you may get the scoop on where to find the next hip art opening.
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San Agustín
A ‘don’t leave San Miguel without…’ experience. This is a sweet tooth’s paradise and the best place to go in Mexico for chocolate and churros (doughnut-like fritters; M$35).
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Nirvana
Artistically prepared international fusion dishes – think venison in black chili seasoning and salmon in mango chutney. The owner-chef loves chatting about the daily specials.
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Planta Baja
You don’t come here to be in Mexico; this contemporary-style place offers international fare in funky surroundings where you are served by excellent waiters.
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Buenas Días
In our opinion, the only place for a European-style cappuccino: a good blend, with a creamy finish (not Mexican-style froth), and doesn’t burn your lips off.
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El Pegaso
A friendly, colorful and cozy place and a reliable option for meals – an eclectic range of Mexican and international fare. Great breakfasts and cakes.
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Cafe Monet
A European-style coffee house (think heavy furniture and olde-world, tearoom ambience) which has lots of modern art and even more foreign accents.
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Las Musas
The setting, within the courtyard of Bellas Artes, is among the most beautiful in town, which makes up for the rather average food.
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Tao
If you need a break from tortillas and tacos, head to this Korean/Japanese eatery for tantalizing tofu, tempura and sushi dishes.
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Carcassone
Smart and sophisticated with top-notch atmosphere (there’s even a wine-tasting room) in a centrally located converted mansion.
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