Mexico City travel guides & articles
All 15 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Mexico City — newest first.
Café de Olla and Three Hours in Mexico City's Oldest Cafés
Sixteen Mexico City rooms where the coffee comes out of the pot sweetened with piloncillo and nobody hurries you out.
Mexico City's Long Lunches That Never Want to End
Mexico City doesn't rush anyone from the table: this is a guide to the restaurants, cantinas, and mezcal bars built for the meal that becomes a five-hour conversation.
Mexico City's Sunday Market Crawl Runs From Jamaica to Merced
A six-to-eight-hour Sunday itinerary through Mexico City's oldest working markets, timed around the two that close early and honest about which stops suit a group and which don't.
Digging for Colonial Furniture at La Lagunilla, Mexico City
Every Sunday, Mexico City's oldest flea market turns colonial furniture, vintage photographs and folk relics into a bargaining ritual — here's how to shop it well, and where the trade continues the rest of the week.
Underground Mexico City: Murals, Mammoths and Aztec Ruins
Mexico City's Metro doubles as a free museum of Aztec ruins, ice-age fossils and mural art, hiding in plain sight beneath rush-hour platforms — worth planning around, not just passing through, in 2026.
Chapultepec: Mexico City's Park That Remembers Everything
A layer-by-layer walk through Chapultepec, the park where Mexico City keeps its Aztec waterworks, its imperial castle, its finest museums, and its green lung all inside the same gates.
Mexico City's Taco Stands Never Really Close
From a Michelin-starred counter to a mechanic's garage that turns into a taquería after dark, Mexico City's taquerías run on a rhythm all their own — and knowing which one suits your group is half the meal.
Mexico City's Old Cantinas: A Sawdust-Floor Drinking Tour
A room-by-room guide to the century-old cantinas still pouring free botanas and cold beer across the Centro Histórico and Roma Norte in 2026.
The Villages Inside Mexico City
Mexico City grew by swallowing dozens of independent villages whole — this is a practical, honest guide to five of the most distinct: Coyoacán, San Ángel, Roma, Condesa, and Santa María la Ribera.
The Pulque Revival: Mexico City's Ancient Fermented Drink Finds a New Generation
From unreconstructed cash-only cantinas to a nightclub built around it, pulque - the fermented agave drink older than tequila - is being rediscovered across Mexico City in 2026.
Diego Rivera's murals across Mexico City — the walls that painted a revolution
A room-by-room, wall-by-wall route through the murals Diego Rivera left across Mexico City, with the door policies, prices, and booking quirks that decide whether you actually get to see them in 2026.
The Floating Gardens: Xochimilco Beyond the Party Barges
Before the sound systems switch on, Xochimilco is a working wetland of chinampa farms, a conservation-run axolotl sanctuary, and a newly reopened lakeside museum — here's how to see all of it in 2026, ahead of the boats.
Higher Than Your Head: A Day Inside Mexico City's Tianguis
A market-by-market guide to Mexico City's tianguis — from Sunday antiques and Saturday folk art to punk vinyl, paca by the kilo and flowers by the truckload.
Ringside Rituals: Mexico City's Lucha Libre Through a Local's Eyes
A calm, honest map of where to watch lucha libre in Mexico City in 2026 — from the CMLL cathedrals to indie edge-of-city halls, mask workshops and taco-fuelled tours — with the door and group realities laid out plainly.
The Best Hot Air Balloon Rides Over Teotihuacán in Mexico City
A calm, honest guide to flying over the pyramids at dawn — which operators to trust, which suit couples, which handle groups, and what a Teotihuacán balloon morning really costs in 2026.