Two stars · 2 restaurants

Pujol
Mexican
Enrique Olvera's dining room, where the seasonal tasting menu builds to mole madre — and a taco omakase runs alongside it.
4.4(5,828 reviews)
Quintonil
Mexican
Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores cook local Mexican produce — insects included — in a room named for a native herb.
4.4(2,947 reviews)
One star · 9 restaurants

Em
Mexican
Lucho Martinez's seafood-driven Mexican tasting menu on Tonalá Street, with cocktails upstairs at 686 Bar.
4.3(713 reviews)
Esquina Común
Mexican
Ana Dolores González's plant-filled Condesa rooftop, tasting-menu plates for two booked only via Instagram.
4.7(287 reviews)
Expendio de Maíz
Mexican
Signless sidewalk spot in Roma Norte, cash-only communal tables, endless surprise plates built on house-nixtamalized heirloom corn.
4.2(1,912 reviews)
Gaba
Mexican
Victor Toriz's Condesa daytime café turned inventive dinner spot, with offal-forward shareable plates like crispy tripe and Ocosingo cheese.
4.7(398 reviews)
La Once Mil - Lomas
Mexican
Prime-grade arrachera and made-to-order tortillas anchor a Lomas de Chapultepec taco standout, salsas ranging gentle to fiery.
4.8(4,830 reviews)
Masala y Maíz
Fusion
Norma Listman and Saqib Keval's African-Indian-Mexican mashup on Artículo 123, from suadero samosas to vanilla-butter prawns.
4.3(1,254 reviews)
Máximo
Mexican
Eduardo Garcia's globally inflected Mexican cooking in a whitewashed brick space on Álvaro Obregón, à la carte or tasting menu.
4.3(2,758 reviews)
Restaurante Rosetta
Creative
Elena Reygadas's Roma Norte mainstay, sharing-style plates that fold global technique into Mexican ingredients.
4.2(5,338 reviews)
Sud 777
Creative
Edgar Núñez's earthy, lofted dining room in Pedregal, built around a pibil-glazed suckling pig for DIY tacos.
4.3(3,451 reviews)
Bib Gourmand · 26 restaurants

Aleli Rooftop
Spanish
Rooftop grill in Roma Norte, with bar seats facing the embers for zarandeado fish and grilled cheesecake.
4.4(610 reviews)
Caracol de Mar
Mexican
Spiral staircase up to a vaulted, light-filled Hipódromo dining room built for sharing contemporary Mexican plates like coconut tostadas.
4.4(757 reviews)
Comal Oculto
Mexican
Comal-driven Mexican classics on communal tables, from carnitas gorditas to mole-drenched enmoladas.

Comedor Jacinta
Mexican
Edgar Núñez's Polanco homage to childhood recipes, with molcajete classics and handmade tortillas.
4.2(2,003 reviews)
Contramar
Seafood
Gabriela Cámara's Roma Norte seafood icon, famed for pescado a la talla split red and green, reservations essential.
4.5(6,598 reviews)
El Vilsito
Mexican
Nighttime taquería inside a Narvarte auto shop, trompo-spun al pastor and cheesy gringas under fluorescent lights.
4.3(16,123 reviews)
Filigrana
Mexican
Martha Ortiz's tree-filled Roma Norte dining room, where tongue gorditas and guajillo-sauced tamal cubes turn playful.
4.5(1,352 reviews)
Fugaz
Mexican
Giuseppe Lacorazza's vegetable-driven Mexican-Mediterranean cooking behind a bright green facade in Roma Norte.
4.4(243 reviews)
Galanga Thai House
Thai
Chef Ana Somsri Raksamran's bamboo-lined courtyard in Roma Norte, serving regional Thai curries grown from her own kitchen garden.

Galea
Italian
Corner terrace and wood-paneled dining room in Roma Norte, with half-portion pastas and daily crudo specials.
4.4(579 reviews)
Jowong
Korean
Confident Korean cooking on Condesa's Pachuca street, from vivid banchan to a table-filling prime-rib barbecue spread.
4.5(408 reviews)
La 89
Mexican
Roma Norte taco nook grilling carne asada and quesabirria to order, plastic stools and no shortcuts.
4.3(408 reviews)
Los Cocuyos
Mexican
Cleaver-wielding taquero at a bubbling meat cauldron on Simón Bolívar, cabeza and al pastor since 1980.
4.1(13,535 reviews)
Los Consentidos del Barrio
Mexican
Second-floor charcoal grill in Tlacoquemecatl del Valle, thin-sliced tacos al carbón and a pink-centered arrachera.
4.5(675 reviews)
Molino El Pujol
Mexican
Daily nixtamalized corn at a six-seat wood counter in La Condesa, tamales and tortillas to eat in or take home.
3.9(1,630 reviews)
Pargot
Mexican
Alexis Ayala's small-to-large Roma Norte menu, Baja fish and grasshopper XO sauce meeting Mexican technique.

Pink Rambo
Contemporary
Irreverent Santa María la Ribera den of shareable plates, from empanadas to fried chicken, under a pull-up-bar crucifix.
3.9(133 reviews)
Plonk
Mexican
Flor Camorlinga's Mexican-Asian mashups on a tree-shaded Condesa patio, built for sharing and natural wine.
4.5(487 reviews)
Raíz
Contemporary
Contemporary Mexican tasting menus on a quiet Polanco street, from plantain molote to crisped pescado zarandeado.
4.5(731 reviews)
Siembra Tortillería
Mexican
Heirloom-corn tacos and fish al pastor at Karina Mejía and Israel Montero's sidewalk taqueria in Polanco.

Tacos Charly
Mexican
Confit-simmered suadero and trompo-carved al pastor at a cash-only Tlalpan taco stand, arrive early.

Tacos del Valle (Roma Norte)
Mexican
Trompo-spun pork and beef on corn tortillas at this retro-diner taqueria on Álvaro Obregón, dressed with squeeze-bottle salsas.
4.4(2,014 reviews)
Taquería El Jarocho
Mexican
Three generations deep in Roma Norte, guisado tacos from a former tortillería, pork flank in morita chile shines.
4.4(3,115 reviews)
Taquería Los Milanesos
Mexican
Breaded pork cutlet tacos piled high under an orange awning, cash-only and unpretentious.
4.3(999 reviews)
Ultramarinos Demar
Seafood
Chef Lucho Martinez's stainless-steel diner-bistro on a Roma Norte corner, counter seats facing the open kitchen for raw bar, pastas and daily seafood specials.
4.2(371 reviews)
Vigneron
Contemporary
Candlelit sliver of a room on Jalapa Street, sharing plates of French-inflected fare over an extensive European wine list.
4.5(313 reviews)