This trip was with our friends Katy and Mehdi. Katy and I went to Mexico City in 2015, and we wanted to recreate the trip (well, just have a new one and maybe visit some old favorites) with our husbands. The photos from this trip will be interspersed with photos from our 2015 trip.
This was before I was in the habit of making blog posts when I travel, so it will be formatted as collections of photos with captions and some context. It is not really organized by day because I can’t remember what happened when.
Tacos Hola in La Condesa serves tacos guisados, tacos with stewed fillings such as lengua (tongue), hígado (liver), and nopal (cactus paddle). It was featured on Netflix’s Taco Chronicles, but Katy and I actually already knew about it from our first trip to Mexico City, then called DF not CDMX, in 2015!A photo from the past: taco guisado from Tacos Hola, 2015. Same yellow plates, same delicious tacos!Taquería La Hortaliza, also in La Condesa but right on the eastern edge of Bosque de Chapultepec. It turns out this place was on Netflix too!Someone sharing a table with their dog – CDMX is a very dog-friendly cityWe walked through Bosque de Chapultepec to the Museo Nacional de Antropología. Here is a photo of Alex posing with a statue inside the museum. Someday I will make a blog post that is just pictures of Katy and I posing with art; we have done it many times throughout our friendship.A photo from the past: posing with art at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, 2015On Sundays, CDMX closes about 55km of city streets to cars so they can be used for biking, roller blading, walking, running, and other various non-car activities. We found this out in the morning when we walked to coffee, and then went back to the Airbnb and rented bikes so we could ride to our next destination, Museo del Templo Mayor!A photo from the past: closed streets on Sunday, 2015El Museo del Templo Mayor is a museum built around ruins from the Mexica people. It is a must-do in Mexico City if you’ve never been before, and it’s great for people that don’t really like museums. Because what you’re doing through most of it is literally walking through old ruins on elevated pathways. You can point out stuff and touch some things (not everything) and there are indoor museum areas to go to if you want to read about stuff too. We spent a day in Coyoacán, and visited the Taller Experimental de Cerámica. They have a small pack of xoloitzcuintli dogs, Mexican hairless dogs, although interestingly two of them have hair. I guess sometimes they come out with hair! They have major stranger danger but they decided I was okay enough to not run away from me. We also bought a lot of items at the shop; they have their more expensive pieces, but they also have lots of pieces that are more affordable and produced in larger quantities such as plates, mugs, and bowls. I bought a soy sauce container and some chopstick holders, and Alex got two small cups that we use for drinking cortados. Some highlights from our big fancy dinner at Quintonil! We all were pretty blown away by the whole experience. These were just a few of the courses. The top center is a display they bring out to show you some of the insects are eaten in Mexico and at your meal. Insects are super traditional and important in Mexican cuisine, but the varieties change depending on where you are. From left to right clockwise, a dessert involving caviar, the insects, mole, tamal, rice with lobster, and something with an amazing sauce that had makrut lime in it. And clover! I haven’t eaten clover since I was little (we used to eat it right off the ground). On our last morning, I went for a run with an ulterior motive to find tamales. I found a cart selling tamales and tortas with a line outside (you always want the food stalls with the line/crowd!). I got three tamales and a torta, and some coffee that I thought was instant coffee because I saw an instant coffee jar on the table. Imagine my surprise when it was actually café de olla, aka the most delicious coffee I’d never even heard of. It’s brewed in a pot (olla) with cinnamon, sugar, and other spices and served with creamer and it is so good. All you have to do to find it is look for a food stall with a steaming metal pot next to it and coffee creamer on the table. People buy it on their way to work. One last photo from the past: Teotihuacán, 2015. We didn’t make it here on our most recent trip, since we only had four days. It is an hour and a half bus trip, and the site is huge, so if you plan to go to Teotihuacán, allow a whole day!
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