Other restaurants in Mexico
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Restaurante Natura
Styled after the successful 100% Natural chain, this little bistro offers up a good mix of natural and vegetarian Mexican cuisine.
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La Brújula
This is a great stop for good coffee; fruit smoothies; breakfasts (including waffles with fruit); salads; and home-baked bread, cakes and cookies. It is rightly popular among artists and expats.
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La Terraza
This family-run restaurant – with bright, lemon-lime-painted walls decorated with photos of the town’s annual festivities – is extremely popular with locals for its large selection of breakfasts, mariscos (seafood), quesadillas, platillos de la región, and crawfish (in season).
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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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Anabanana
With five practically touching tables and a hand-lettered menu colored in with crayons, this long-time tortas and juice joint on the andador is a cozy choice for typical Mexican food and no-frills international options. Inexpensive breakfasts too.
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Gaspachos La Cerrada
Gaspacho – a salad of diced mango, pineapple and jicama, drowned in orange and lime juice and dashed with salt, chili sauce and cheese (optional) – is a local delicacy served all over town. But according to locals, this place is the best.
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Antojitos Mimi
Try Antojitos Mimi, opposite Hotel Calakmul, for some pretty fine salbutes (tortillas fried until they puff up) and an ice-cold agua de jamaica (hibiscus tea).
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K Sadillas del Jalisco
For a cheap lunch on this side of town, head over to the palapa-shaded K Sadillas, where the friendly owner, Javier, serves up super-cheap lunches and, you guessed it…quesadillas.
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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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Acrópolis Café
This Greek-owned café with slightly overinflated prices is popular with locals and visitors, more for its location than its meals – light snacks and coffees.
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Fredy’s Tucan
This gringo breakfast paradise serves waffles, omelets and almost anything else you could want in an ample courtyard three blocks from the beach.
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Mayambé
This superb courtyard restaurant boasts a wonderful Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean menu, including plenty of vegetarian options.
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El Caldero
Simple, friendly little El Caldero specializes in delicious, filling Mexican soups – pozole (shredded pork in broth), mondongo (tripe), caldo (broth) – with avocados, tortillas and various salsas. Great for an authentic and inexpensive local meal.
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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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El Fogón
Red-checked tablecloths, an airy dining room facing La Costera and neon lights blazing out the names of Mexican specialties all create a welcoming atmosphere at this eatery popular with local families. If you’re hungry, try the house special, molcajete acapulqueño : enough steak, pork, ranchero cheese, grilled nopales (cactus), avocado slices and freshly made tortillas to feed two people! There is another branch as the corner of La Costera and Alaminos ( [tel] 484-50-79; open 8am to midnight Sunday to Wednesday, 8am to 3am Thursday to Saturday).
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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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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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Mama Rosa
Grab a table on Mama Rosa’s pleasant outdoor patio and load up on sopes (tortillas with a layer of beans, cheese and salsa), tamales, chilaquiles, nopales, chorizo, eggs and delicious salsas from the scrumptious breakfast buffet. Supplement it all with bottomless cups of café de olla (Mexican coffee spiced with cinnamon) or chilled glasses of the homemade basil-lemon drink, and don’t forget to save room for the tantalizing desserts, including rice pudding, honeyed bananas and cheesecake.
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Iglesia La Inmaculada
Every night for more than 40 years, volunteers have served up local delicacies such as corundas (triangular tamales ), uchepos (fresh corn tamales ), fried quesadillas and buñelos (syrupy doughnuts) in the basement of this massive church, with proceeds going to charity. Buy a handful of tickets at the counter to redeem for food at the various booths – leftovers can be returned for cash. One of Morelia’s most memorable eating experiences.
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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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Ajijic Tango
You’ll dine on exceptional Argentine food at unbelievable prices at Tango, Ajijic’s most beloved restaurant. The intimately lit indoor-outdoor dining room is always packed with locals and travelers alike dining on huge, mind-blowingly tender cuts of beef and piles of perfect French fries doused with chimichurri (a parsley–olive oil sauce). The wood-fired pizzas look appealing on paper, but don’t get distracted: order the steak.
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Itanoní Antojería y Tortillería
Though you’re certain to eat a pile of fresh-off-the-grill tortillas in Oaxaca, this humble eatery, dedicated to exploring and exploiting the unique taste of pre-Hispanic varieties of native corn, takes the craft of tortilla-making to new heights. There are plenty of options for vegetarian tetelas (a pre-Hispanic tortilla wrap) and a divine ‘spiritual egg’ dish, which deep-fries a whole egg encased in hierba santa.
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Ostionería El Rinconcito
Take a taxi to this popular seafood spot near the Panteón and try to choose between the 17 different shrimp dishes, a freshly cooked róbalo (snook) and the in-season langosta (lobster). Weekend lunches are prime time, when an organ serenades diners with ranchera, cumbia and romántica. Kids will love the pufferfish dangling from the ceiling, the huge play structure and the trampoline.
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Ambar
On the upper level of the new Museo Modelo de Ciencias e Industria building, Ambar is laid out in a massive, appropriately industrial space with exposed beams and piping, two-story-high ceilings and sleek wooden furniture. Sports matches are projected on the stark white walls. The food, however, compensates. Dishes like salmon in asparagus sauce, giant shrimp with pistachio salsa, and duck with hibiscus sauce are a delight.
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