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Friday, April 11, 2008
Insiders’ guide to best Mexico City food
This week I had the envious task of sampling some of Mexico City’s best street food for an upcoming story (and video). I know, I know, this is a tough job, especially when your biggest worry is how much weight you’re going to put on eating delicious (but frighteningly fatty) foods.
As part of the story, I talked with Jose Iturriaga, perhaps the foremost expert on Mexican street food and an insatiable foodie. Iturriaga is old school and fairly hardcore - he has no patience for the rash of nouveau Mexican fusion restaurants proliferating in the city and even has disdain for the relative newcomers to the street food scene like bistec and chuleta (he does like tacos al pastor though). Anyways, I had the amazing opportunity to pick this gastronomical master’s brain on some of the best places to eat in Mexico City. Here are his picks:
Best Yucatecan restaurant: “Circulo de Sureste” on Lucerna 12 near Bucareli. Best Oaxacan restaurant: “Guelaguetza” on Andalucia and Xola, near the Communications Ministry. Best carnitas: “El Paisa,” a stand on Manzanillo, two blocks east of the market in Roma Sur. Best tacos de cabeza: In the quesadilla market behind the church on the main plaza. (There’s just one cabeza stand) Best tacos de canasta: On the corner of Insurgentes Sur and Extremedura. Best flautas: At Buena Fe, right off the Coyoacan plaza.
I hope to make it to some of these places soon. Meanwhile I’d love to hear if any of you have tried them or have your own personal faves.