I recently had a woman on one of my tours whose friends had assured her she must go shopping while in Mexico City. Then they named off a few high-end, international brands and she got a little confused. “What’s...
A Guide to Eating Street Food in Mexico City
With street food there are no hard and fast rules per se, but there are certain, let’s say, generalities that the nascent street food eater should know about before they hit the stands of Mexico City. Here are the...
A Guide to Polanco: The Highlights
Mexico City’s Polanco neighborhood has a bit of a reputation. As one of the city’s most upscale neighborhoods, it is known for its embassies, 5-star hotels and horrendous weekday traffic… also snooty fashionistas and trust fund kids. While that stereotype...
Five Coworks near Condesa and Roma
Coworking is becoming more and more popular in Mexico City, both for digital nomads and location-independent workers as well as local start-ups and freelancers. I thought I would take a look at the coworks that are closest to the...
Mexico City Rollercoasters: MCS Guide to La Feria Chapultepec
THE FERIA HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY CLOSED DUE TO THE DEATH OF TWO PARK VISITORS IN SEPTEMBER OF 2019 – YIKES The Chapultepec rollercoaster has been something of a mythical creature for the past five years. On many occasions, heading...
The Ultimate Guide to Colonia San Rafael
The Colonia San Rafael is often overlooked and always underappreciated by tourists (and natives) in Mexico City. Still residential and quirky but with an artsy edge growing ever stronger, San Rafael is home a streetside sewing circle, an experimental...
Day of the Dead Tianguis – Jamaica Market
I don’t know what it is about this particular autumn in Mexico City but it feels cooler and crisper than ever. The delight of golden afternoons and chilly breezes is second only to the upcoming Day of the Dead,...
Monterrey is back, It just needs You
There are many ways people think about Monterrey, Nuevo Leon – Mexico’s industrial giant, a haven for the moneyed and the narcos, a Tex-Mex collision of barbecue and soccer. But when I took a break from Mexico City this...
The Women of Colonia Roma
When a friend forwarded this article to me about a woman who started organizing tours of the trailblazing women of Paris, I started to think about my own city and in particular Colonia Roma. This neighborhood has a past...
Mexico City’s Xochimilco and las Chinampas
Xochimilco To travel to Mexico City and not experience Xochimilco would be a shame and a travesty. Venice’s rowdy cousin, the canals of Xochimilco are filled each day with brightly-colored flat-bottom boats, women in canoes selling cold beer...