Mercado de San Juan ★ 4.6
Mercado de San Juan in Mexico City is the gourmet specialty market on Ernesto Pugibet in Centro Historico, the city's only such market with exotic meats.
Glass urns called vitroleras lined up on market counters: pink jamaica, milky cinnamon-rice horchata, tart tamarindo, melon, alfalfa. Sold by the cup at every market.
Aguas frescas trace to pre-Hispanic Mexico, where Aztecs in Tenochtitlan made cold drinks from cacao, fruit and seeds chilled with volcanic ice carried down from Popocatepetl. The colonial Spanish brought horchata de chufa from Valencia, which was reinvented in Mexico with rice. Jamaica (hibiscus) and tamarindo arrived through the colonial trade networks from West Africa and Asia. By the 19th century the vitrolera was a market fixture across Mexico City; today every market and most taquerias carry at least four aguas, refilled fresh daily, costing 25 to 45 pesos per glass.
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Mercado de Coyoacan ★ 4.5
Mercado de Coyoacan in Mexico City is the southern neighbourhood market on Ignacio Allende near the Frida Kahlo Museum, a 350-vendor traditional market.
Mercado de la Merced ★ 4.4
Mercado de la Merced in Mexico City is the 1957 mega-market east of the Zocalo, the largest retail market in the city with 88,000 sq m and 5,525 vendors.
Mercado de la Merced ★ 4.4
Mercado de la Merced in Mexico City is the 1957 mega-market east of the Zocalo, the largest retail market in the city with 88,000 sq m and 5,525 vendors.
Mercado Medellin ★ 4.3
Mercado Medellin in Mexico City is the Roma Sur Latin American import market on Campeche, the pan-Latin grocery hall with Cuban, Colombian and Argentine.
Mercado Roma ★ 4.3
Mercado Roma in Mexico City is the Roma Norte gourmet food hall on Queretaro, a three-floor market with 50-plus vendors covering Mexican, Italian, Venezuelan.
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