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The Food Police Guide to Cantinas in Mexico City / La Nueva Don León, a bohemian cantina with a snack offering, with a cabaret past and nearly a hundred years of existence.

Cantina La Nueva Don León, founded in 1928 as "El Nuevo León," is about to celebrate its centenary.

Guía de cantinas en CDMX / La Nueva Don León, una cantina bohemia de botana

The Food Police Guide to Cantinas in Mexico City / La Reforma, a traditional cantina with full course daily menus and a long legacy.

“What brings you to this part of town?”, “Where are you actually going?”, “I wouldn't walk around this neighborhood alone,” comments the cab driver as we roamed the streets of Peralvillo searching for a destination agreed upon earlier that morning with my friend Cristina: La Reforma cantina.

Guía de cantinas en CDMX / La Reforma, una cantina tradicional (de botana) con mucho linaje.

Classics of Mexico city / Fonda Margarita, mexican homemade breakfasts for early risers, office workers, and night owls.

A row of gigantic clay pots, heaps of glowing coals, and pork lard accompany the homemade stews

Guía de clásicos de la CDMX / Fonda Margarita, desayunos caseros a la mexicana para madrugadores, oficinistas y trasnochados.

Guide to Cantinas in Mexico City / El Covadonga, a cantina with Asturian heritage that survives the changes in the Roma neighborhood.

El Covadonga is the old and legendary Spanish cantina in the Roma neighborhood,

Guía de cantinas en CDMX / El Covadonga, una cantina de herencia asturiana que sobrevive en la Roma

Old Money restaurants in Mexico city / Les Moustaches, an Iconic French Restaurant to Rediscover.

Opened in 1974 by Don Luis Gálvez, Les Moustaches is located in an imposing Porfirian-era mansion with French-inspired design and over a hundred years of history.

Guía de restaurantes old money en CDMX / Les moustaches, un icónico restaurante francés para redescubrir.

Guide to Cantinas in Mexico City / La Potosina, for those who get triggered when they see a regal cantina, say "that's not a cantina," here is the "authentic" and masculine experience complete with dirty and smelly bathrooms.

A unas cuantas calles detrás del Palacio Nacional, en el Centro Histórico de Ciudad de México, enmarcada por vendedores ambulantes y la imponente presencia de una figura de la Santa Muerte cerca de su puerta, se encuentra La Potosina, una cantina que, desde su apertura en 1890, ha sido protagonista de innumerables relatos protagonizados por personajes que ya forman parte de la historia de México.

Cantinas en CDMX / La Potosina, para los que cuando ven una cantina señorial dicen “esa no es una cantina”, he aquí la “auténtica” y masculina experiencia con todo y baños sucios y olorosos.

Guide to Cantinas in Mexico city / Salón España, a Centennial Cantina with Plenty of Tequila, Bulls, and Snacks, Just Like in the Old Days.

Established in 1925 by Spanish refugees fleeing the conflicts of the Civil War.

Guía de cantinas en CDMX / Salón España, una cantina centenaria con mucho tequila, toros y botana, como en los viejos tiempos.

Guide to Cantinas in Mexico city / Salón París, a classic cantina with generous snacks, one of those places where the chamorros gain fame over the years.

Founded in 1934, within those four walls debuted with his songs the King of Ranchera Music, better known as El Hijo del Pueblo, the great José Alfredo Jiménez.

Guía de cantinas en CDMX / Salón París, una clásica cantina de botana generosa, de esas donde los chamorros cobran fama a lo largo de los años.

Guide to the Best Meals in Mexico / Doña Esthela's kitchen, the breakfast in Valle de Guadalupe that became the best in the world

To tell the story of how Doña Esthela's breakfast in Valle de Guadalupe came to be known as the best in the world, we have to go back in time several decades.

Guía de las mejores comidas de México / La cocina de Doña Esthela, el desayuno en el Valle de Guadalupe que se convirtió en el mejor del mundo.

The Food Police Guide to the best meals in Mexico / La Guerrerense, “The best seafood tostada in the world" comes from a small cart in Ensenada.

In 2013, the World Street Food Congress in Singapore witnessed the rise of a humble seafood tostada from a small cart in Ensenada.

Guía de las mejores comidas de México / La Guerrerense, la tostada de mariscos que fue reconocida como “la mejor tostada de mariscos del mundo” y que salió de una pequeña carreta de Ensenada.

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