After seeing it in my Wallpaper* City Guide to Mexico City, I made sure I went for lunch upon arriving in town. La Rambla Loncheria: Located at Motolinia 38, in the heart of the Centro Historico. It is a good place for breakfast or lunch. The food was really wonderful and the service excellent.Ĭafé el Cardenal: Traditional restaurant with good atmosphere.

The final treat was a chocolate atole served with a small pan dulce or sweet bread. The dessert was a wonderful grilled mango, with chocolate, black Zapotec, fermented manguey syrup and a mango/pulque sorbet. They then served a cactus lime sorbet topped with a salt made with burned corn husks. The main course was a wonderful dish of turkey with a green pipian mole and baby carrots, a turnip puree topped with small plaintain chips. My dinner consisted of bread with a huitlacoche butter, a light ceviche or almost a gazpacho of nopal or cactus, a smoked crab tostado with a tostado topped with herbs and radishes that you eat along with the crab in a habanero mayonnaise. I opted for a starter, a main course and a dessert, but with the bread and three other complementary small dishes served by the chefs, I had a full tasting menu! They offer small and large plates as well as a multi-course tasting menu. They offer inside dining as well as outside dining on their small covered patio in the rear. I enjoyed a really wonderful dining experience in this small Polano restaurant. Quintonil: I read about Quintonil having been listed as number 31 in the top 50 restaurants in Latin America. It is high on the list for dinner on my next trip. It has received several recent design awards. I have seen pictures at night and it is fantastic all lit up in blue. I checked out the amazing design but it was not open. Tori Tori: This is a great new Japanese restaurant located in Polanco at Anatole France 71B.

Check it out if you want something low key in Polanco. It was a fun atmosphere and the owner, who had lived in France, was fun and friendly.

The food was good and they had wonderful cookies, croissants and pastries. This is where I had Easter brunch with friends. They have nice outdoor seating as well as a fun indoor lounge area. Maison Belen: Located in Polanco at Emilio Castelar 31 B, this is a fun locals café and bakery which bills itself as a petit bistro and patisserie.

It has recently moved from its location on Francisco Petrarca to Tennyson 133 in Polanco. It was named Mexico’s Top Restaurant by San Pellegrino and the fifth best in Latin America in 2016. Chef Enrique Olvera is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. Pujol Restaurant: Make sure you try Pujol which is among the most innovative restaurants anywhere. School of Social Science Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2018) Publications and WorkMexico City is a growing ‘Foodie Destination”. He is a past member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton in the School of Social Science. Prior to joining USC Annenberg, Amaya was a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. He has advanced degrees from the University of Calgary and the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War (University of Illinois Press), is a comparative study of film reception of Cuban film, cultural criticism, and citizenship in Cuba and the USA from the 1960s to 1985.Īmaya was born and raised in Mexico and began his education at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico City). His previous book, Citizenship Excess: Latinas/os, Media and the Nation(NYU Press), examines the mainstreaming after 9/11 of anti-Latino nativism in politics and in media. His most recent work, Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States (forthcoming with Duke University Press), analyzes the way Mexico’s criminal drug violence and new media technologies structure publicness in Mexico and the United States. He has authored three books and has published dozens of articles on the issues of globalization, Latin American media, comparative media studies, immigration, and Latinx media studies.Ī leader in his intellectual community, Amaya is the past chair of the Latina/o Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association (NCA), the past chair of NCA’s La Raza Caucus, and the past chair of the Latino Caucus of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Hector Amaya is a professor of communication in the USC Annenberg.

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