Anything to do with eating and drinking!
A Mexican cooking class in San Miguel de Allende was high on our to-do list in line with the experiential travel goals of our yearlong grand tour of the world, promoting slow travel, local travel and experiential travel. We’d been cooking Mexican food since our first trip to Mexico in the 1990s. But we’d never … Read more
When we asked locals where to eat Mexican food in San Miguel de Allende, that is Mexicans, not expats, we were often met with a deafening and sometimes embarrassing silence and mumbled directions to a taco stand or simple local eatery. Mexicans we met refused to offer tips for restaurants in San Miguel de Allende. … Read more
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
Drinking in Mexico City… Most of us think cerveza and tequila, maybe margaritas and micheladas. Mexican wine probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind, few foreigners know about pulque, and many people think mezcal is the same as tequila. We were eager to learn more about all three, so when Lesley Tellez of … 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