Start from 53 curated places around Mexico City, MX, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Contramar
A bright Roma Norte seafood room that has anchored the city's long lunch for decades. The split-and-grilled whole fish, half red adobo and half green parsley, is the dish everyone orders, with the tuna tostadas to start.
Pujol
Enrique Olvera's Polanco flagship and the restaurant that reframed Mexican fine dining for the world. The signature is the mole madre, a mole kept alive and re-cooked for years, served as a ring around a dot of fresh mole.
Trails & outdoors
Bosque de Chapultepec
The city's enormous central forest, larger than New York's Central Park and split into three sections of lakes, trails, and museums. The first section's flat paths around the lake and up to the castle are the easy urban loop everyone uses.
Parque México
Condesa's oval Art Deco park, a flat shaded loop that locals use for morning runs and evening dog-walks. It's short and easy, more a leafy lap than a hike, ringed by 1930s architecture.
Things to do
Arena México
The cathedral of lucha libre, where masked wrestlers fly off the ropes to a roaring crowd several nights a week. It's loud, theatrical, family-friendly chaos and one of the city's most purely fun nights out.
Museo Tamayo
A sleek contemporary-art museum inside Chapultepec, built around Rufino Tamayo's personal collection of 20th-century modern art and rotating international shows. The brutalist building is itself part of the draw.
Landmarks & sights
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The country's greatest museum and one of the world's finest, holding the Aztec Sun Stone, Maya treasures, and rooms for every ancient Mexican culture. The vast covered courtyard with its umbrella fountain is an icon in itself.
Museo Frida Kahlo
The Casa Azul in Coyoacán where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, painted, and died, kept much as she left it. The cobalt-blue house, her studio, and her belongings make it the city's most personal museum.