Mexico City Food Tour: Mole, Mezcal & the Historic Center

Mexico City, Mexico
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Duration3h 30m
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LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 10 travelers

Overview

Mexico City was built directly on top of Tenochtitlan, stone by stone, the same way today's Mexican food was built on top of a 9,000-year-old corn tradition. This tour traces both layers at once, six stops through the historic center tasting how Indigenous, Spanish, and Lebanese influences all ended up on the same plate.

Taste a wedding mole made the traditional way, try wild-gathered insects, tacos al pastor sliced fresh off the spit, and pulque poured in the city's oldest surviving pulquería.

What's included

  • Local English-speaking guide
  • Guided walking tour through Mexico City’s historic center
  • 8 tastings and 4 drinks
  • Hotel Pick-Up/Drop-Off
  • Gratuities

What to expect

  1. 35m · Admission ticket included
    Begin at Fonda Mi Lupita, a tiny, family-run eatery tucked off Buen Tono street. Taste mole nupcial, wedding mole, a recipe combining two family traditions from the State of Mexico, made fresh every Monday in a giant clay pot, stirred entirely by hand.
  2. Mercado de San Juan
    1h · Admission ticket included
    Walk into Mercado San Juan, a market that's operated on this exact spot since before the Spanish arrived. Taste four kinds of insects, wild-gathered by hand rather than farmed, then rim a glass of mezcal with worm salt for the toast.
  3. 40m · Admission ticket included
    Step into a former convent whose cloister now houses Tacos Los Tacos. Watch tacos al pastor sliced straight off the spinning trompo, then share chilaquiles and a michelada at the table.
  4. 30m · Admission ticket included
    Continue to Casa del Maíz, a business built entirely around traditional nixtamalization and native corn. Taste huitlacoche, a corn fungus treated as an agricultural disease in the US and prized as a delicacy in Mexico.
  5. 15m · Admission ticket included
    Choose your own concha or pan dulce from the open shelves at Pastelería Madrid, a daily ritual across Mexico City.
  6. 30m · Admission ticket included
    Finish at Pulquería La Risa, the oldest continuously operating pulquería in the Centro Histórico, open since 1903. Taste pulque, Mexico's oldest fermented drink, agave in the form people drank it a thousand years before anyone learned to distill it into mezcal.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of your tour, your guide will be holding a yellow WalksDevour sign. This tour meets at the San Juan Crafts and Curiosities Market, Main Covered Entrance.

End point

Plaza San Jeronimo next to Claustro Sor Juana in Mexico City's old town

Additional information

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The tour is in English.
  • This is a walking tour. Guests should be able to walk at a moderate pace without difficulty.
  • Unfortunately, due to the nature of this tour it is not suitable for guests with mobility impairments, wheelchairs, or strollers.
  • This tour is adaptable for vegetarians, pescatarians, non-alcoholic, gluten free and and pregnant women.
  • Those with dietary restrictions or food allergies need to email our Guest Experience team at [email protected] after booking the tour so we can arrange your ingredients.
  • This tour is not suitable for celiac, tree nut alergy or dairy-free diets.
  • This tour covers a full meal.
  • Walks and Devour comply with all local government regulations. Please refer to local government guidelines for the most up to date information.

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