Lara Dunston 
Chef Martha Ortiz of Dulce Patria opened her restaurant Dulce Patria at the beautiful Las Alcobas boutique hotel in Polanco just before we left the Mexico capital, Mexico City. Booked solid for weeks, we were lucky to get a table and luckier still to have a chat with the chef, and a tour of the … Read more
Eating out in Mexico City is truly a delight. You can have a tasty meal of a few tacos for less than a dollar or you can pay two hundred times that amount for a seven-course gastronomic feast at Pujol that is easily as sublime as any meal you’d find in some of the world’s … Read more
A street food tour of Mexico City was high on our agenda during the two weeks that we settled into Mexico City on the yearlong global grand tour that launched Grantourismo. We’ve always loved street food and loved Mexican cuisine since our first trip to Mexico in the mid-1990s, so when we arrived in the … Read more
Mexico City’s markets aren’t just for shopping, eating and drinking, as much fun as all of that is in Mexico City, but as a microcosm of a society they also offer a fantastic insight into the culture and everyday life of a place, no more so than in the Mexican capital. Here’s our guide to … Read more
Mexico City is super affordable and some things are dirt cheap, making it a brilliant budget destination and a great place to settle in for a while. Cervezas (beers), for example, cost around $1, the same price they cost when we first visited 17 years ago! However, somewhat surprisingly, it can actually be cheaper to … Read more