Axolao restaurant

Mexico City

Mexico City completely exceeded our expectations. As one of the world’s greatest food capitals, the city effortlessly blends traditional street food with award-winning restaurants, beautiful bakeries and an incredible specialty coffee scene. We spent most of our time exploring the vibrant neighbourhoods of Roma, Condesa and Coyoacán, discovering everything from flaky pastries and perfectly brewed…

Breakfast Tulum

Tulum

Tulum is one of those places where the food scene keeps changing every time we return. When we first visited, we mainly remembered the plant-based cafés and relaxed beach atmosphere. A few years later, we came back to a much more interesting mix: Mexican cooking over fire, handmade noodles, natural wine, seriously good coffee and…

El Güero Marinero Puebla

Puebla

Beautiful colonial streets, colourful façades and one of Mexico’s richest culinary traditions. Puebla quickly won us over—not just with its famous local dishes, but also with its growing specialty coffee scene and creative restaurants. These are the places we loved most during our visit. Best Places to Eat & Drink in Puebla Cultivo Looking for…

Oaxaca

If there’s one destination in Mexico we’d recommend to every food lover, it’s Oaxaca. The city is home to one of the country’s richest culinary traditions, where ancient recipes, local markets and modern restaurants exist side by side. After visiting twice, these are the places we genuinely recommend. Best Restaurants in Oaxaca Copal Copal was…

Restaurant Valladolid

Valladolid

Valladolid may be small, but its food scene has more character than we expected. Traditional Maya cooking, Yucatecan craft beer, tropical gelato and some surprisingly good vegetarian restaurants all sit within walking distance of the colourful historic centre. We only had a handful of places we really wanted to recommend, but each of them brought…

Restaurant Merida

Mérida

Mérida has a food scene that feels broader than you might expect from a city of this size. Yucatecan flavours, ambitious seafood restaurants, artisan bakeries and French pastry all sit surprisingly close together. We were only in the city for a short stay, but these were the places that stood out enough to still recommend…