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

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3 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: English

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

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

Ticket Redemption Point

Itinerary

Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
  • 1

    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.

    35 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 2
    Mercado de San Juan

    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.

    1 hour • Admission ticket included
  • 3

    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.

    40 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 4

    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.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 5

    Choose your own concha or pan dulce from the open shelves at Pastelería Madrid, a daily ritual across Mexico City.

    15 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 6

    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.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket included

Additional info

  • 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.
Supplied by Devour USA Food Tours
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Half-day Tours
Private and Luxury
Walking Tours
Culinary Tours
Small Group
Food & Drink
Short term availability

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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