Lardo ★ 4.6
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 weekends.
Order: Wood-fired flatbread with eggs; Roma garden tomato salad.
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 and huevos divorciados.
Must order: Chilaquiles verdes with chicken; a concha de vainilla; cafe de olla.
Address: Av. Ozuluama 4, Hipodromo, Cuauhtemoc, 06100 Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
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 weekends.
Order: Wood-fired flatbread with eggs; Roma garden tomato salad.
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 on hot chocolate frothed tableside with raw-milk nata.
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 weekends.
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 and politicians the same plates for over seven decades.
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 for laminated guava rolls and conchas.
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 under the bougainvillea with a Margarita Sabra.
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 and a long natural-wine list.
Order: Plateau de fruits de mer; steak frites with a Loire natural wine.