Good food and good cocktails
Mexico City is the city with the most museums in the world. During the day it is impossible to get bored between cultural visits and walks dodging food stalls. But it is even more difficult to get bored when the sun goes down. Then the capital brings out its funniest and most unique face. Welcome to chilanga night.
OF MEZCALS BY LA CONDESA AND LA ROMA
The modern night, even hipster, has as its main drink the mezcal . La Condesa and La Roma are the two trendiest neighborhoods in Mexico City, especially Colonia Roma. On Álvaro Obregón street there is one bar after another , with little light, a lot of atmosphere, good music and the best food and drink menu. But as we come to what we come: the mezcal cocktail with soursop from Aurora is essential (where you can also eat on its patio if you want to soak it up); and the traditional mezcal tastings that Romelia does on Tuesdays.
The Romita Comedor is also a good option for combine traditional Mexican food dishes with a modern twist and original cocktails or mezcal, of course. By The Countess you can go from mezcalería to mezcalería and try different types of the drink that has superseded tequila in recent years, served if possible with grasshoppers and worm salt, as in La botica or el Maruka (bar of the Maria Condesa boutique hotel).
the best drinks
THE FIGHTS
Super Porky vs Terrible. A fat man in tights sitting on top of other giant wrestlers. The rude against the technicians . You have to decide sides before sitting in the Arena Mexico and cheering and booing as if your life depended on it, because the rest of the spectators are into it. Or so it seems. Sometimes you don't know where to look if the public and their screams or the fighters facing each other. It is an essential visit in Mexico City, frikerío and show guaranteed. Even more than you imagine. The moment Triumph Operation or The voice with a jury deciding who will be the new idol of Lucha libre is already the culmination. Every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.
The wrestling show
FOR Irremediable Dancers
When you get to DF try to say: “They told me to go to Patrick Miller”. The giggles and smiles that such a comment provokes will make you want to go even more. , and it is better not to know much more. The surprise will be greater and you will be the next one to let out those giggles when you recommend it. It opens on Fridays and has two sessions: the professional one or High Definition and the remember one with music from the 80s and 90s. It is a place to Tony Maneros and worshipers of Tony Manero.
OF CANTINAS AND MARIACHIS
Go to Mexico City and not spend a night in the square Garibaldi It is not an option. You have to go to the mecca of the ranchera. Spot. Let's see the infinite groups of mariachis, jarochos or norteños with their classic costumes , singing after agreeing on a price. While sellers of hats, mañanitas and anything else you can think of surround you. His thing is to have the last drink as Chavela did in Tenampa, one of the oldest bars in the city and the most classic in the square. Inside, more groups of mariachis sing the ranchera you order for just over six euros, while you chant and continue with the mezcals, reposado tequilas or mango margaritas.
The Tenampa, a classic
For the night to be complete the best thing is to go late to Garibaldi and Tenampa and kill time in one of the oldest and most peculiar cantinas From Mexico City, The work , a huge bullfighting bar-museum founded in 1954, whose showcases with costumes and bullfighters (kissing!) have been gathering dust ever since. In the old jukebox you can choose the music you want to listen and dance between plastic tables and chairs with tablecloths-handkerchiefs, the only 'modernity' that is allowed in this place that offers you potato tacos as an appetizer (or snack) with your drink (draft beer, bottles, mezcal...).
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