Come early to Valladolid’s most fun restaurant and bar for the food and drink, but stay late for the karaoke and dancing. Owner Eduardo Valenzuela will soon be your new best friend. Half the fun of dinner at La Chispa is watching Eduardo table-hop, making sure that each and...
Cheap, good eats can be found from early in the morning until very late at night at Bazar Municipal, an open-air, covered collection of food stalls right on the main square. You will find the stand of local institution Señor Casiano, near the back, and for USD$0.50 - 3, MEX $6...
Run by a Lebanese/Syrian woman, this tiny place on a street just off the zócalo, serves up mezzes, taboulehs, lentil salad, Spanish pistou, stuffed pumpkin and stuffed vine leaves accompanied by delicious Arab bread. The food may not be strictly authentic, but is a welcome change from endless...
Opened in 1928 in downtown Mexico City, the Salón Corona is one of those rare family cantinas that welcomes all patrons with simple, but excellent food and numerous kinds of beer—even draft. If you've only sampled...
Legend has it that revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa, ostensibly seeking to becalm a rowdy crowd, fired a bullet into the ceiling of the cantina called La Opera in 1914. Today, the "bullet hole" is still there, as is the booth he supposedly sat in while shooting, in...