
esperanza
Jul 11, 2014, 9:29 AM
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Re: [charlie131120] Can you find 'anything' in Mexico City ?
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The short answer is 'maybe', although real New York deli-style corned beef on rye is one of those USA expat pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow persistent searches. In spite of the large Jewish community in Mexico City, what an estadounidense might think of as deli food pretty much doesn't exist here, where the foodways of the Jewish community are very, very different from those of New York. For example, the many Kosher food choices are much more Middle Eastern than Eastern European. Having said that, there are certain foods we have stumbled across during our three-plus years in the DF--foods we never expected to find in Mexico. Not a roast beef hoagie, but real Hong Kong style dim sum. Not good gyros, but extraordinary tacos arabes. Not Kaiser rolls, but quite adequate baguettes for sandwiches. And not cronuts, but really fine macarons. There's a Koreatown in Zona Rosa, a Chinatown with a great grocery store that's not in the Centro Histórico, a new hipster gourmet market in Colonia Roma (the hippest, hoppin'-est neighborhood in the city), an excellent Middle Eastern restaurant in Colonia Condesa, and so forth. Morimoto has a great restaurant here (Hotel Camino Real, Polanco). There's honest-to-god American barbecue in Col. Narvarte. Spice Everywhere (weekend brunch) and Spice Pub (late evenings) offer American comfort food, including chicken and waffles with maple syrup. So other than that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, what are you hunting? http://www.mexicocooks.typepad.com
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