Museum Restaurants in CDMX / Café Emile: Sweet Crepes and Salads with the Best View of the City.
Perched 50 meters high in the renovated Monument to the Revolution, you'll find a charming spot offering all kinds of coffees, crepes, salads, and non-alcoholic cocktails.
By Alejandro Pohlenz
The Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City was originally intended to be the Mexican Congress. The project's architect was a Frenchman (how unusual for Porfirio Díaz, right?!), named Émile Bénard. However, the project was thwarted by the outbreak of the great revolt in 1910. After the conflict (which left nearly a million dead), Bénard himself proposed salvaging the project to create a "pantheon for war heroes." He died in '29, and the structural skeleton remained exposed until Carlos Obregón Santacilia transformed it into the monument we know today, inaugurated in 1938 (in the midst of the Cárdenas era).
What's to Eat and Drink?
Café Mirador Émile is located at the very top. It's 50 meters high (the monument with its Art Deco dome is 65 meters), and from there, you can view the city from all angles. In this lovely little café, besides choosing from various types of coffee, they sell fabulous crepes with Nutella, strawberry jam, La Lechera (a sure diabetic coma), peanut butter, or almond butter. There's homemade pound cake and non-alcoholic beverages. They also offer salads with turkey, pepperoni, or mushrooms with Manchego cheese. What they recommend most is to go at "cuchicuchi" hour; that is, at sunset. A cappuccino, facing the love of your life as the sun sets... how about that?
The Museum
It's vital to note something: to go to Café Mirador Émile, you must pay the monument's entrance fee ($150 pesos), which also grants you access to the museum. The museum has three permanent exhibitions: one with rifles and crystal bullets, another titled "The Revolution and Cinema," and one more with wax figures of Porfirio Díaz, Zapata, and Villa.
Sunset, culture and history, crepes and coffee...
- What we love and you must try: Nutella crepes.
- What we don't like as much: I don't like non-alcoholic beer.
- Address: Plaza de la República, Colonia Tabacalera, CDMX.
- Hours and days of operation: Monday to Thursday: 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday: 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.Sundays: 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Ideal for: Coffee and something sweet.
- Payment: Cash and cards.
- Accessibility: Yes.
- Phone: -
- Reservations: No.
- Nearby public transport: Metro Revolución.
- Pet Friendly: No.
- Kid-Friendly: Yes.
- Vegan options: Yes.
