Mexico City Mini Guide

We put together a small Mexico City guide with a few places we love—simple, beautiful, and easy to enjoy between the activities. Hope you get the chance to enjoy these places as much as we do.

Easy logistics, great atmosphere, no unnecessary detours: breakfast → activity → lunch → bar → can’t-miss → dinner.

See you at Common Ground,

Alfonso Flores & Holger Thoss

Juárez

Breakfast: Café Nin
Activity: Walk Juárez → a loop of amazing stores
Lunch: La Pimpompería
Bar: Balagán or Hanky Panky (reservation recommended)
Can’t-miss: Handshake Speakeasy (final chapter)
Dinner: Cana (Juárez)

Polanco → Chapultepec

Breakfast: Casa del Fuego / Sofitel
Activity: Museo de Arte Moderno / Museo de Antropología
Lunch: Los Panchos
Bar: Fifty Mils
Can’t-miss: Chapultepec walk + museum highlights (Frida, Siqueiros, Rivera, Carrington, Varo)
Dinner: MO+F

Centro Histórico

Breakfast: Café de Tacuba
Activity: Bellas Artes / MUNAL
Lunch: El Cardenal
Bar: La Ópera / Downtown terraza / Bósforo
Can’t-miss: The murals inside Bellas Artes
Dinner: Charco

Roma → Condesa

Brunch: Compa Chava (arrive early)
Activity: Walk Roma Norte + shopping
Lunch: Comida Chuy (Option A) / Rosetta (lunch) (Option B)
Bar: Limantour / Handshake/ Tlecan
Can’t-miss: Golden hour walk Condesa → Roma
Dinner: Broka / Máximo

CAFFEINE STOP →

CUCURUCHO: Condesa, Polanco, Cuauhtemoc
QUENTIN: Roma, Condesa, Juarez, San Rafael
BLEND STATION: Roma, Condesa, Polanco

Photography STOPs →

CENTRO DE LA IMAGEN: Centro Histórico

MUSEO ARCHICO DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA Centro Histórico

CENTRO EFE (photolab) Cuaúhtemoc