We booked a trip to Mexico City - our first to our neighbor south of the border!
We had an early flight from Portland, Maine, connecting through Atlanta. We got down to Mexico City in the mid-afternoon, enjoying a welcome drink at our hotel, Casa de la Luz, a boutique hotel in a monastery in the Centro Historico. Our Uber driver from the airport, as with all Uber drivers on the trip, was a maniac and I loved him. They drive fearlessly here.
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| Mezcal welcome drink at Casa de la Luz |
We were both pretty hungry, but before the sun set, we wanted to take a walk around the sights. The central square, Zócalo, was fun to walk around and was bordered by the Metropolitan Cathedral...
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| Cathedral |
And the National Palace...
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| National Palace |
We had a lot of drinking spots picked out for the trip, so to spread them out, I suggested we grab a beer before dinner. We selected Tio Pepe's for the first night, so we could check in a beer on Untappd. It's a 150-year-old cantina! I got a beer "cubano" style, which in Chicago we would call chelada (beer with salt and lime). I tried to order a michelada, but he said they were out of sauce.
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| Cantina Tio Pepe |
We went back to the hotel for dinner, because the menu looked pretty tasty. The restaurant in Casa de la Luz is called Tezontle. I tried my first tlayuda, a corn tortilla pizza thing from Oaxaca. It was very nice, but we were so stuffed!
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