Where to brunch in Mexico City: morning rooms worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Mexico City. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Forte in Mexico City is the Roma Norte all-day bake-and-coffee room on Queretaro between Orizaba and Cordoba, a specialty-coffee counter by day that turns.
Order: Huevos turcos on house-baked bread or chilaquiles with organic eggs and a tascalate cold brew.
Maque in Mexico City is the Condesa morning room on Ozuluama on the Parque Mexico spine, the brunch counter that pairs handmade pan dulce with chilaquiles.
Order: Chilaquiles verdes with chicken; a concha de vainilla; cafe de olla.
El Cardenal Centro in Mexico City is the Briz family's 1969 traditional Mexican breakfast institution on Palma, the Sunday-morning room that built its name.
Order: Hot chocolate frothed tableside with pan de nata.
Lardo in Mexico City is Elena Reygadas' Condesa all-day room with a strong wood-fired-flatbread brunch and Mediterranean morning plates that run from 08:00.
Order: Wood-fired flatbread with eggs; Roma garden tomato salad.
Fonda Margarita in Mexico City is the 1948 Del Valle morning fonda on Adolfo Prieto, the open-air patio breakfast counter that has served cabbies.
Order: Huevos con chorizo with frijoles puercos; a side of cafe de olla.
Panaderia Rosetta in Mexico City is Elena Reygadas' Roma Norte bakery with the larger Puebla branch that supports counter brunch, the morning stop.
Order: Rol de guayaba; concha de vainilla; cafe de olla.
San Angel Inn in Mexico City is the 1692 hacienda turned restaurant in San Angel, a courtyard-and-garden colonial room where Saturday brunch sits.
Order: Chiles en nogada (July to September); a Margarita Sabra.
Havre 77 in Mexico City is the Juarez French bistro from Eduardo Garcia, the Maximo Bistrot sister room that runs a Sunday plateau de fruits de mer.
Order: Plateau de fruits de mer; steak frites with a Loire natural wine.
Cafebreria El Pendulo Condesa in Mexico City is the multi-floor bookstore cafe on Nuevo Leon since 1993, the wood-floor balcony reading room with weekend.
Order: Mexican chocolate with espresso shot; French toast with cajeta.