One of my favorite places in Mexico City is La Lagunilla, a fifty-year-old market close to Plaza Garibaldi and Tepito. Lagunilla means “little lagoon”, a clear reference to the pool from which vendors of the Tlatelolco market transported their goods before the arrival of the Spaniards.
The lagoon was dried, as well as the rest of [...]
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La Lagunilla
Xochimilco: a macha’s day out
The Xochimilco canals are hardly an undiscovered secret in Mexico City; they are described in all the handbooks as a worthwhile destination for tourists and chilangos alike. Rightfully so. The afternoon I spent there for a friend’s birthday was one of the nicest I’ve ever had in Mexico City.
Lake Xochimilco was the breadbasket of Tenochtitlan. [...]
Orgasmic Micheladas at Restaurante Marifer: a narrative of Pie de la Cuesta
A bout of wanderlust last summer left me itching to get out of D.F. to explore parts of Mexico that I had never visited.
After a friend decided to lend us her car for a few days, we decided to take a road trip to Acapulco. I wanted to spend a day or two indulging in [...]
Tortas: La Barraca Valenciana
With all the culinary experiences to be had in Coyoacán, one strategy I support is picking restaurants that won’t leave you too full to sample at least a fraction of the pastries, coffees, gelados, esquites, and other tempting fare available on almost every corner. In that respect, La Barraca Valenciana, a modest and inexpensive joint [...]