5-Daags Foodieweekend in Mexico-Stad

With Ultimate Foodie Weekend, SAT Mexico Tours has put together a long weekend with the perfect balance for you to become an expert in Mexican cuisine and enjoy Mexico City, one of the top culinary scenes in the world.

From the best restaurants in the world to the best street food experience led by Mexican gastronomy local experts. You will love the aroma of the smoke streaming away from the street taquerias. Enjoy History in a drink made of fermented sap of maguey – Pulque in the Cantinas of the Historic Center.

Prices are based on 2 persons minimum.

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival + Dinner at the Museum of Tequila

The SAT Mexico Tours team will pick you up and welcome you at the airport to transfer you to the hotel where you will stay to check in.

Have you ever wondered how Tequila or Mezcal are made? The production of these two beverages is based on artisanal methods. Tequila and mezcal are obtained from the fermentation and distillation of agave; however, the type of maguey used varies from one beverage to another. In the case of tequila, blue agave is used, while for mezcal, different species of agave can be used.

Tequila and Mezcal Museum

Your first big step in Mexico City will be to visit the Tequila and Mezcal Museum (MUTEM). Here, you will enjoy a cultural space with exhibitions, concerts, presentations of Mexican distillates, and gastronomy. You will learn about the products resulting from the distillation processes of the different varieties of agave in Mexico. During the museum tour, tequila and mezcal tastings will offered for you to try these authentic Mexican beverages.

After spending some time at the museum, you will have dinner on the museum’s terrace. To delight you, you will taste delicious Mexican dishes and traditional Mexican music with mariachi. You will enjoy the beautiful panoramic view of Garibaldi Square and other monuments of the Historic Center of Mexico City, such as the domes of the Cathedral and the Torre Latinoamericana.

After dinner, you will go back to the hotel.

Included: Private luxury airport transfers, overnight in a 4-star hotel in Mexico City

Day 2: Walking in Mexico City + Gastronomic tour in Polanco Neighborhood

Mexico City’s Historical Center

The SAT Mexico Tours team will pick you up at the hotel this morning to take you on a walking tour of Mexico City’s Historical Center, home to historical monuments dating back to Aztec times. The Historical Center is the city’s heart and is one of the most significant and symbolic in Latin America. It is the leading destination for cultural tourism in all of Mexico, declared a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO.

You will visit the surroundings, such as the main temple, the Cathedral, and the National Palace, among others. Then, you will continue to Polanco Neighborhood.

Polanco

Polanco is one of the most famous neighborhoods in Mexico City, where you will find extraordinary places and have fun. From Plaza Carso to Bosque de Chapultepec, Polanco offers luxury and comfort in the most pleasant places for harmonious interaction in restaurants, shopping malls, bars, hotels, and entertainment centers.

The SAT Mexico Tours team will pick you up at the hotel to take you on a walking tour to learn the delicious Mexican gastronomy in Polanco. You will visit several of Mexico City’s food-tasting locations from various Mexican regional cuisines in the tasty Polanco neighborhood. Chefs, restaurant owners, and food lovers recognize it as one of the gastronomic trends set in Mexico.

The complete stops on this tour include:

• An authentic Oaxacan food restaurant
• A genuine Mexican Cantina
• Mexico City’s top-rated tacos

All food tastings are included in the ticket price. This tour is an excellent way for everyone interested in exploring new flavors and tastes in Mexico City while trying the most delicious specialties.

Chilangos?

This tour includes the experience of knowing the life of Mexico City’s locals, the so-called “Chilangos”, as you enjoy walking around Mexico City’s most exciting dining scene and one of the most fun neighborhoods in the city. Your guides will be available to share their secrets, knowledge, and recommendations of beautiful places in the area to visit.

The tour will offer you a new perspective of Mexico City, just a few blocks from one of the most famous avenues in the city.

Included: Breakfast in the hotel, shared transportation with other participants like you, a walking guided tour, a gastronomic tour including enough bites, and overnight hotel in Mexico City.

Day 3: Art with Frida Kahlo + Xochimilco + Taco tour in Mexico

Frida Kahlo Museum

Today you will visit Mexico City from an artistic perspective because you will go to the Frida Kahlo Museum, known as La Casa Azul. The artist lived most of her life in this beautiful residence, initially with her family and, years later, with her husband, Diego Rivera. Interesting Mexican and foreign visitors stayed in this place, attracted by the captivating artist couple.

In the end, Frida wanted to leave her house as a museum for the learning and enjoyment of her beloved Mexico. That is why, after her death, her husband built the Frida Kahlo Museum here.

After you visit the Frida Kahlo Museum, the team will take you on a tour of the Xochimilco canals in the Cuemanco ecological reserve area. You will spend around 3 hours in Xochimilco.

Xochimilco

Xochimilco stands out for its natural beauty, reflected in the canals and chinampas that give identity to the place and its cultural diversity. Chinampas, trajineras, flower and plant markets, parishes, and forests are some of the parts that give life to this place.

The canals of Xochimilco and the traditional cultivation system of chinampas are Cultural Heritage of Humanity declared by UNESCO. It is a very important site that reflects History and culture. More than 200 colorful trajineras depart from its ten docks to travel through the canals.

Here you will have the opportunity to interact with the local people in a visit to learn about the farming systems of the region as well as a tour of the chinampas of the canals of Xochimilco with delicious food and typical music. You will also listen to incredible legends of the place and buy delicious Mexican snacks - enough to have lunch - from local people on boats.

Tacos!

Now the real deal! Mexico City is known as the TACO capital of the world. A taco is made of tortilla, filling (something), and salsa. This is the most typical dish/snack/appetizer in Mexico. Everyone who tastes it is fascinated with its flavor, which becomes addictive. The tacos in each country involve different preparations and styles, such as the traditional barbacoa, cochinita pibil, carnitas, mixiote, de canasta, etc.

On this tour, you will enjoy and taste Mexican tacos at the different stops we have for you. You will know excellent restaurants and typical “taquerias” (taco venues).

Mezcal

After your taco tour, immerse yourself in a unique experience about the elaboration of “mezcal,” a famous Mexican beverage. Mezcal is obtained from the distillation of a plant called maguey or agave. This natural Mexican product is one of the few vegetables that provide man with a home, clothing, sustenance, and health.

On this day, you will have the opportunity to learn about the mezcal process with an artisan mezcal producer, also known as Maestro Mezcalero. He will share his knowledge and secrets about mezcal from its origins to the best way to drink it. Feel free to ask him everything you’d like to know about this now-so-popular beverage worldwide.

Then you will continue to your hotel to rest your stomach!

Day 4: Hot air balloon optional - Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan is considered the most visited archaeological site in Mexico and the second most visited archaeological site globally. It was one of the largest urban centers of the ancient world, which came to concentrate a population of over 100,000 inhabitants at its peak. Because of this, it is a must-see tour if you are visiting Mexico City. Depending on the date you visit this incredible place, you can find festivals, exhibitions, and shows.

This day is optional if you want to complement your tour with a hot air balloon ride to admire the sunrise over the pyramids of Teotihuacan (please get in touch with SAT Mexico Tours to include this experience).

If you opt to do the hot air balloon, the tour starts at 5 a.m., but SAT Mexico Tours assures you that it is an incredible experience. You will enjoy the best landscapes from where you can admire in detail every part of the archaeological site and fly over the impressive pyramids with the sunrise between your eyes.

The balloon flight includes a light coffee break, flight certificate, toast, and traveller’s insurance to make you feel more satisfied and confident that everything in the heights will be great.

After your flight

You will prepare for breakfast at the restaurant “Gran Teocalli,” where Mexican cuisine is offered in different dishes combining the best ingredients to get the best flavors, and you can taste the best food. SAT Mexico Tours will recommend local food, and just right after (not before), they will explain how it is done and what it contains. You will be surprised!

At the end of the exquisite breakfast, a local guide from Teotihuacan will give you a tour with an explanation of the place. Teotihuacan, where “men become gods” according to the description provided by the Mexica, is the oldest and one of the most majestic pre-Hispanic cities. It created a civilization that became one of the most powerful cultural sites in Mesoamerica. Teotihuacan was one of the largest urban centers of the ancient world, with a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants at its peak of splendor.

Teotihuacan

This tour of the archaeological site of Teotihuacan also includes a visit to the mural painting district, where you will visit four spaces where the living areas of the ancient groups of inhabitants of this ancient city were located. These places are the architectural complexes known as Tetitla, Tepantitla, Atetelco, and La Ventilla. You will find walls and floors decorated with pre-Columbian pictorial creations on this tour. In these fresco paintings, the Teotihuacanos left testimony of their daily activities, their way of life, their thoughts, and beliefs, through which you can have elements to imagine what life was like in what is considered the first Mesoamerican city.

After finishing the tour of the murals in the old neighborhoods of Teotihuacan, the SAT Mexico Tours team will take you to an impressive local workshop of Mexican products made from prickly pear cactus, nopal, and xoconostle to end the day. You will learn how these foods are used and properties, contribute to the local community, and buy something you like! Learn how to make Salsa!

Meson Monte Cristo

On your way back, you will continue to have a late lunch at the restaurant “Monte Cristo,” where its style and structure combine to give an old Mexican atmosphere where delicious dishes of Mexican cuisine are brought to life.

Authentic Mexican cuisine is composed of various dishes that reflect the richness of flavors, ingredients, and preparations accumulated over time from pre-Hispanic times to colonial and even contemporary. Nowadays, in many towns, ancient Mexican cuisine remains latent. The mixtures of flavors are so delicious that UNESCO declared Mexican gastronomy an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. So, it would be best to try the culinary delights that Mexico has to offer at Meson Monte Cristo.

Here you will be able to delight yourself with Mexican and unique ingredients that will create mind-blowing flavours. Within the delicious menu, you will find some exotic dishes like dishes prepared with grasshoppers or maguey warms, Pulque, and all types of salsas, among some delicious desserts and drinks to accompany your meal.

Free time at Mexico City Downtown

After your late lunch, you will then continue to Mexico City Downtown, and you can continue on your own for the rest evening. In case you are still hungry, let SAT Mexico Tours know, and they will help you with recommendations for dinner.

Included: Breakfast in the hotel, shared transportation, breakfast and lunch in a local restaurant, a walking tour with a bilingual speaking guide (English-Spanish language), entry to the archeological site of Teotihuacan, make your own Salsa Workshop, overnight in a hotel in Mexico City

Day 5: Sky brunch at Ritz Carlton Hotel + Free time in Mexico City and transfer out

According to the time of your departure, you can choose to have breakfast at your hotel and then continue to the Airport or join others for brunch at Hotel Ritz Carlton. That is quite an experience. This is a culinary experience with delicious food. Within the culinary offerings of this appetizing brunch, you will find classic dishes with the unique touch of Samos, such as Croque madame with black forest ham and truffle oil and French bread with red fruits from Michoacán and mascarpone, as well as signature dishes cooked in a Josper oven. Of course, you can’t forget the beautiful views that will allow you to take amazing pictures to remember.

If you still have time, you can explore the surroundings. SAT Mexico Tours recommends you take a walk and see the Angel of Independencia and Avenida Reforma.

At the proper time, one of the travel advisors will contact you to take you to the airport or wherever you continue your journey.

Included: Breakfast in the hotel, shared transportation to the airport, and bilingual assistance (English-Spanish language).

Note: You can always contact SAT Mexico Tours to customize your trip.