El Volador (Plaza de la Danza) ★ 4.1
El Volador in the Jardin Socrates lake plaza is one of the tejate stands serving foamed prehispanic cacao-and-maize drink with totopos by the bandstand.
Try: Tejate
Tejate vendors at Mercado Benito Juarez is a street-food stop in Centro Historico, Oaxaca.
Tejate stalls at Mercado Benito Juarez whisk the maize, cacao, mamey seed and cacao flower into a foamed prehispanic drink, served cold from gourd bowls.
Address: Las Casas S/N, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
El Volador in the Jardin Socrates lake plaza is one of the tejate stands serving foamed prehispanic cacao-and-maize drink with totopos by the bandstand.
Try: Tejate
Nieves Manolo on Macedonio Alcala is the 1953 stand for leche quemada, tuna and sorbete sorbets, scooped to order by the Velasco-Cuevas family generation.
Try: Nieve de leche quemada
The Zocalo evening carts roll out esquites (cups of corn with mayo, queso fresco, chile) and elotes on the cob, the canonical Oaxacan plaza-evening snack.
Try: Esquites and elotes
Chocolate Mayordomo's counter on Mina mills cacao on demand and pours chocolate de agua (water-mixed) into ceramic mugs with pan de yema for dunking.
Try: Chocolate de agua
The comedor counters at Mercado 20 de Noviembre stuff chiles de agua (a milder Oaxaca-only chile) with quesillo and serve them fried in a tomato-garlic broth.
Try: Chiles de agua rellenos
The empanada-de-amarillo vendors at Plaza Llano fold thin masa around mole amarillo with quesillo and hierba santa, the late-afternoon Oaxacan classic.
Try: Empanada de mole amarillo
El Volador in the Jardin Socrates lake plaza is one of the tejate stands serving foamed prehispanic cacao-and-maize drink with totopos by the bandstand.
Try: Tejate
Nieves Manolo on Macedonio Alcala is the 1953 stand for leche quemada, tuna and sorbete sorbets, scooped to order by the Velasco-Cuevas family generation.
Try: Nieve de leche quemada
The Zocalo evening carts roll out esquites (cups of corn with mayo, queso fresco, chile) and elotes on the cob, the canonical Oaxacan plaza-evening snack.
Try: Esquites and elotes
Chocolate Mayordomo's counter on Mina mills cacao on demand and pours chocolate de agua (water-mixed) into ceramic mugs with pan de yema for dunking.
Try: Chocolate de agua
The comedor counters at Mercado 20 de Noviembre stuff chiles de agua (a milder Oaxaca-only chile) with quesillo and serve them fried in a tomato-garlic broth.
Try: Chiles de agua rellenos
The empanada-de-amarillo vendors at Plaza Llano fold thin masa around mole amarillo with quesillo and hierba santa, the late-afternoon Oaxacan classic.
Try: Empanada de mole amarillo