About Lydia Carey
Lydia Carey is a freelance writer and tour guide based in Mexico City. After nearly two decades exploring, researching, and eating her way across Mexico and its capital, she’s created a collection of curated, locally rooted experiences for culturally curious travelers who value authenticity over tourist traps and meaningful engagement over checklist tourism.
Lydia is the author of “Mexico City Streets: La Roma” and regularly writes about Mexico City across digital and print publications. She is the current author of the Louis Vuitton Guide to Mexico City, and the associate editor of LuxuryLatinAmerica.com.
Writer & Journalist
I am the associate editor of Luxurylatinamerica.com and the current author of the Louis Vuitton Mexico City guide. I also wrote the Nurall Mexico City Digital Nomad guide, The Food and Travel guide to Baja Sur, and fact checked the upcoming Eater guide to Mexico City. I am a regular contributor to Eater, Mexico News Daily, Perceptive Travel, and HotelScoop.com, and have also contributed to the New York Times Travel Section, Virtuoso, Westways Magazine, Hemispheres Magazine, Lonely Planet, San Diego Magazine, Shondaland, and others. Check out my online portfolio to see all of my writing.
Food, Travel & Research
The main focus of my work is food, spirits and travel and I have been to almost every single state in Mexico tasting, visiting, and writing about local food scenes, regional cuisine, food production, farmers and spirit makers, and more.
Whether it’s female mezcaleros in Oaxaca or Mexico City’s cafe chinos, I like to tell stories from an on-the-ground perspective that really puts humans at the center of the story.
Whether it’s female mezcaleros in Oaxaca or Mexico City’s cafe chinos, I like to tell stories from an on-the-ground perspective that really puts humans at the center of the story.
While my focus is on Mexico, I have traveled to almost every country in the Americas as well, reporting for a variety of publications.
In 2016 I started my own tour company, Mexico City Streets, to meet the demand of clients who reached out after my book was published wanting a tour of Roma.
Since then my repertoire has expanded to include tours to the city’s markets, taco stands, and out to the enchanting southern canals where I work with a family who has run an organic farm they have been creating over the same past decade.
As the tours have evolved so has my understanding of the city, and I have come to appreciate it even more than I did when I landed in CDMX 14 years ago.
