Mexico City - Itinerary

•  Where to stay?
• Condesa and Roma norte seem to be the place to stay as it's just near bunch of food and restaurants
• I stayed in one of the ULIV houses - mine was the ULIV Cibeles which is really close to the Cibeles Fountain
• They have a game room, terrace, and laundry room
• Unfortunately, they never cleaned my room for the entire time we were there (9 days!)

• Where to eat
• El Califa de Leon
• 1 Michelin Star
• It was just OK to be honest
• Roma Norte/ Condesa
• Chilpa - great chilaquiles
• Odette Cafe - I love their savory croissant (Turkey Gruyere)
• Rosetta Panaderia - Bakery
• Order their Guava and Ocho. It was good.
• Restaurante Rosetta 
• 1 Michelin star
• It was just OK for me to be honest
• Nudo
• I like the biang biang mian noodle and Laksa , it was good. The Laksa is very anchovy.
• Yim Thai Kitchen
• Simple Thai food. I like it.
• Tacos
• Maizajo - Michelin Recommended
• I got their Ribeye Tacos which had potato shoe strings
• and then got their Brisket Volcano (it's the cripier tacos vs the not so crisp Costas but both have Oaxaca cheese on them). Very filling because of the cheese
• Taco Orinoco
• Order the Nortesta (which is like the chicharoon with some cheese and onions)
• Fritoles was also good. 
• Polanco
• Siembre Taqueria
• Michelin Bib Gourmand
• I love their Tuna tostado and their Soft shell crab (Jaiba) taco
• Quintonil
• 2 Michelin Star
• 5K Mexican Pesos + drinks + tip
• It's a good experience :)
• Monarch Haus
• I like their coffee and it's a fancy nice place
• Historic Center
• El muro churreria - it's just ok to be honest
• Azul Historico - the place is amazing and food is good too.
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• What to do?
• Roma Norte
• Jazz
• Casa Franca
• Jazzatlan

• Biblio Vasconcelos
• Instagrammable Place

• Museums
• Soumaya (Polanco)
• it was free, and it's a really nice building

• National Anthropology Museum
• It was good to see history and large stones/structures 
• There's the flyers right outside the museum
• Palacio Bellas Artes
• We did a walking tour - around Historic Center
• Coyoacan Area
• Frida Kahlo's Museum - make sure you book in advance as it gets easily booked out
• Leon Trotsky House - Russian Opposition - the house was interesting
• Artesanal Mercado - if you want to buy stuff's but not a good market.

• Coffee
• Roma Norte/condesa Area
• Post 
• very minimalist cafe. Doesn't even have cappucino or latte. I ordered flat white which was good.
• Blend Station
• Cardinal Casa de cafe
• Coyoacan
• Cafe El Jarocho
• Coffee is OK. It's really more the fact it's traditional
• Order the very Mexican style coffee - with Cinnamon and Sugar - Cafe de Olla
•  Cafe Avellaneda 👎
• Don't really like it. Latte was too foamy.
• Not sure why this has been recommended by a number of bloggers.
• Day Tours
• Teotihuacan Day Tour
• booked this via the Estaccion Mexico after the walking tour and so it was cheaper. (600 pesos = 35 $). 

• La Lucha Libre
• This was really fun!
• Note: They said it's actually not advisable to uber or walk around the alleys! The good thing is that the tour guide brought us to the main street which was a few blocks from Alvaro Obregon street. Also, there's a lot of people going out of the arena so safer.  So it wasn't really not as UNSAFE as they told us. But stay vigilant.

Tip! 

• We did a free walking tour in the Historic Center, afterwards our Tour Guide offered some additional tours at a very good discounted rate
• We did Teotihuacan only for 600 Pesos = 30+ USD
• We just went straight to Teotihuacan, no tourist stops, no stop over.. it was from 8 am meeting point at Bellas Artes and coming back 2-2.30 PM. Just the pyramids!!! no tourist traps
• They apparently also do the Lucha Libre which we booked via Viator (but they did mention that for certain days, they had a discount). So check it out! The website or the tour if you get from them directly is around 800 Pesos = 45+ USD but we paid around 60 USD via Viator.