Everywhere I went in Mexico City
Featuring the local brands and memorable tacos I loved along the way.
Hi from seat 17C! I’m writing this on the three-hour flight back to LA after a weekend girls’ trip to CDMX, where we mostly ate, walked, shopped, museum-ed, and laughed ‘til we cried the way you would when you were 11 at a sleepover you begged your parents to have.
This is the first paid installment of Little Big City, which essentially acts as a travel-meets-shopping guide for places I’ve recently traveled to (or regularly travel to). Each will have a small-brand spotlight, and a detailed list of the memorable spots I recommend, with a little room for improvisation. I’d love to hear what you think along the way: What you want more/less of, where you’re traveling to soon, and any recs I may have missed! So excited to kick this off with a city that’s hard not to love: CDMX.
I’d visited Mexico City once previously on a brand trip in 2018, but was thrilled to finally have another go at it with my/our own agenda. Typically before any trip (this often happens on the flight there), I combine my own research with recommendations from friends and Internet strangers and pop the ones that catch my eye into a Google Map so that as I’m roaming around, I’m already loaded up with spots someone else has already tried and liked.
For this city in particular, we were overwhelmed with lists of recommendations and limited to only about 3 full days to do as much of it as we could. So we tried to hit the must-see spots while knowing that a few of us had already been once before.
Luckily, my dear friend Shelby had already handled dinner reservations (which I topped off by pulling a few strings to get a celebratory birthday reservation at Pujol), and the rest of the trip was open for us to fill in the blanks. I’m still full from the amount of, well, everything we consumed (mainly tacos and wine) — but some shops and meals definitely stood out from the rest. So, let’s get into it!