The best restaurants Central Mexico

Street Garden also means plaza terrace, where you can feast under a fig tree on excellent burgers, burritos and sandwiches. Among the waiter's recommendations, the "Americano" stands out, a fried chicken sandwich with cabbage, onions, lime mayonnaise and chipotle. You also have the option of the BLT, a baguette sandwich with beef, peppers, mushrooms and caramelized onions. You can also arrive in the morning and order a breakfast of chilaquiles, omelette or pancakes.

Are you one of those people who think that only a big piece of red meat can restore your strength after a day of walking around the city? This Argentinian restaurant with its hearty cuts of beef will meet all your expectations. It is inevitably what your eyes will first catch on the menu... but a little creativity will not hurt you: why not let yourself be tempted by a piece of roast duck, a suckling pig or a kid? All of this is enjoyed in an elegant rustic-industrial atmosphere.

This pretty upstairs room - or its shady terrace - is home to cuisine created by young Japanese nationals with a gift for cooking and sweet, original flavors. On the menu, you can choose from a small "bento" formula at a very reasonable price ($50 to $90), depending on the number of small dishes you choose from the display case; everything is as fresh as can be. Bigger appetites will love the bowls or curry dishes based on chicken, fish, tofu or seafood. Makis and sushis. Absolutely delicious.

This lovely restaurant nimbly navigates the ocean of Guanajuato's ancestral flavors: its name evokes an atole (drink) made from a variety of corn called cacahuacintle . To accompany it, nibble on the homemade rolls and indulge in the fruit salad with yoghurt mousse. If you're really hungry, order the chilaquiles with fried egg or the lamb cecina (cordero). Or go straight for the sweet treats: toast de nata with sliced strawberries.

Here is a small shop which, if it doesn't look like much, is worth a stop for its burros, which are absolutely delicious! Typical sandwich from the north of the country, they are large wheat flour patties filled with meat and/or vegetable preparations and then rolled on themselves. Here, everything is homemade and the different preparations are spiced just right: machaca, deshebrada, birria, carne de puerco or combinado, you can sincerely try any of them, without any risk of disappointment. Not to be missed.

On the terrace or in one of the three areas of this old building with high ceilings, nicely restored, you can first stop to taste a very good selection of coffees or teas. The lounge area, with sofas and books, is particularly suitable for this. The pretty room at the back, which still has the stonework of its old walls, is perfect for a small snack or a more substantial dish for lunch. If the pizzas are not a real success, the chapatas are a real delight (especially thearrachera) and the dishes are not to be neglected either.

The excellent Dos Casas Hotel & Spa has an equally attractive restaurant. Aperi offers Mexican and international cuisine, prepared with fresh local ingredients. The menu varies according to the seasons, so that you can't get enough of it. On the à la carte menu, nostalgic travellers will be able to enjoy, for example, a duck breast with spices, a tasty plate of pasta or a perfectly seasoned piece of beef. As for the tasting menu, it offers exceptional value for money for a cuisine of this level.

Looking for a great breakfast before hitting the road? Right across from the Plaza de las Tres Centurias, La Estación is a real institution for all things related to typical and regional cuisine, and the ideal place for hearty breakfasts such as huevos rieleros, tacos de nata or cecina. Here, it's all about good food, and you can enjoy melted cheese dishes, soups of all kinds, costillas, tacos, grilled meats and mole dishes. We appreciate the light and family atmosphere and the dishes that keep the stomach warm.

This is a lovely café-restaurant, freshly fitted out in a 1930s house, where you can sit in one of the many rooms that originally made it up. The sky-blue decor is relaxing. Here, the options are as vast as they are appetizing: Serrano ham or pear-gorgonzola tapas, lasagne and fresh pasta, salads, baguette sandwiches, carpaccio, grilled meat dishes or seafood (salmon, tuna, shrimp) accompanied by beautiful vegetables. And for dessert, what could be better than a crème brûlée or profiteroles?

Here is a small shop where it is good to stop if you want to discover the local specialties, especially the enchiladas hidrocalidas (hidrocalidas is an adjective that means native of Aguascalientes, a person from Aguascalientes is said to be hidrocalida). The establishment also offers a wide variety of sweet tamales, cherry, pine nut, walnut, rompope. The dishes are just like that: simple and unpretentious, but they are good and the plates are extremely copious.

La Gran Vía is a restaurant serving Spanish and international cuisine in the historic centre. The good families of the city come here for lunch at the weekend. The beautiful restaurant is built around a light well along which small rooms follow one another: stone, parquet, beams and classical music in the background. A refined atmosphere for good dishes, both refined and generous: tournedos, beef medallions, shrimps, fish fillets, etc. The jamón serrano is a little extra not to be missed.

For gourmets in search of an upscale culinary experience, your quest ends here. In the heart of the elegant Casa Quebrada boutique hotel, Bocaciega unveils a seasonal menu, where each dish is presented like a work of art. Evoking Mediterranean flavors, the menu features mezze such as tabbouleh, falafel and stuffed grape leaves. Main courses include lamb fillet with carrot and guava purée, duck ravioli and grilled sea bass with polenta. Superb cocktails.

This restaurant is located in a superb old house, which has the advantage of offering a few tables on a terrace with a panoramic view of the valley and the mountains. In addition to the exceptional panorama, you will be surprised by the quality of the cuisine offered. The menu is simple, but the execution of the dishes is very well done, with Italian-inspired proposals: lasagna, pasta, but also some salads and pieces of meat. The portions are huge, especially the pasta plates. Ideal at any time.

In a small, pleasant room open to the street, you can enjoy several dishes of contemporary Mexican cuisine. The menu varies, but the most popular dishes are beef filet with chipotlesauce, lamb with piloncillo and mint sauce, and salmon with pumpkin flower sauce. For the more timid, soups, vegetable soups and cabrito tacos. To finish this excellent meal, we turn to guava pie and other fruit desserts. Craft beer or wine to accompany it all. A great tasting experience.

In a simple and pretty room overlooking this small and quiet square that also hosts the Rafael Coronel Museum, this foundation serves good traditional cuisine to a loyal clientele. You can taste excellent enchiladas, tacos dorados, pozoles with zacatecan flavours. The atmosphere and the setting are as much worth the detour as the good food: we meet in a family and joyful atmosphere, in this room with resolutely local colors which does not empty. The bill also leaves us with a sweet memory...

Beautiful contemporary cuisine for this small restaurant a little away from the city centre, with a patio and a beautiful garden. The season menu is varied and frequently offers new designs of the chef. For the curious and lovers of new experiences.

Creole cuisine and cajun. Choose from a wide variety of dishes, whether it be seafood, grilled meats or New Orleans specialities. Several rooms. Jazz concert on Sunday afternoon. A good restaurant imported by the neighbour of the North.

This restaurant offers artisanal Mexican cuisine in a lovely rustic setting. Known as the best table in town, it is the creation of a woman, chef Luz María González, who is in charge. Among the options, all very tempting, do not miss the sopa negra de huitlacoche y hongos (mushroom soup) or the revisited version of chiles en nogada, the national dish. The restaurant also offers a very nice wine and dessert list... and a beautiful view of the city. Foodies beware: this is a restaurant not to be missed.

This restaurant is located in a former hacienda and serves Mexican specialities. On weekends, mariachi play music while you eat. Very nice frame, which you pay at the time of addition.

As its name suggests, this restaurant is ideal for tasting pozole, a soup of pre-Hispanic origin that is presented here in the three colors of the Mexican flag: red, white and green. Each color offers a different flavor. The soup can also be ordered to go, by the litre or half-litre! This very popular address also offers many other small traditional dishes (with sauce, as it should be): tacos, quesadillas,flautas, chalupas, and so on! Excellent and authentic, we ask for more.

The name of this small restaurant with rustic and cozy decor reveals its maps as well as the visitor: yes, we serve tacos, make it the most emblematic and popular of the country, but they are tacos like nowhere else, since the recipes are very creative and original: Vegetarian options (nopal and roast tomatoes, macadamia nut cheese with aioli sauce), chorizo accompanied by avocado and almond sauce, besides perfectly original tacos al pastor and tacos of cochinita pibil. For those who want to reconcile with Mexican cuisine, also enjoy a very beautiful home dessert card.

We can't recommend enough that you share a molcajete, a vegetarian or carnivorous preparation in a large pre-Hispanic stone bowl: there's plenty for two. There is a choice of 100% vegetables, beef, chicken, shrimp or fish, or even a mix of all of the above with cheese and grilled vegetables. There is also a good selection of salads, soups and traditionalantojitos(enmoladas, enchiladas), as well as fish fillets or filet mignon, shrimps and grilled meats. Very good address.