The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Puebla's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Puebla.
Cemitas Las Poblanitas builds its cemitas inside the Mercado El Carmen hall in Puebla, papalo, quesillo and cauliflower escabeche on sesame-crusted bread.
Try: Cemita poblana
Tip: Inside Mercado El Carmen, and the cauliflower escabeche is what separates this counter from the ones on the street.
Super Cemitas El As de Oros works a stall inside the Mercado de Sabores in Puebla, stacking milanesa super cemitas that comfortably feed two people.
Try: Milanesa super cemita
Tip: Only opens Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so check the day before crossing town to the Mercado de Sabores.
Cemitas La Colonial sells its cemitas at about 34 pesos on 2 Poniente in Puebla, the cheap Centro fallback for when market queues get too long.
Try: Cemita
Tip: At about 34 pesos this is roughly half the price of the market counters, in exchange for a smaller build.
Cemitas El Gordo builds milanesa cemitas on 13 Oriente in El Carmen, Puebla, opening early at the weekend and running through to the evening.
Try: Milanesa cemita
Tip: Opens at nine on Saturday and eight on Sunday, which is earlier than most cemita counters in El Carmen.
Cemitas America opens at six in the morning on 2 Norte in Puebla, which makes it the breakfast cemita of choice for anyone starting work early.
Try: Cemita
Tip: Six in the morning is an unusual opening hour for a cemita, and it makes this the breakfast option on 2 Norte.
Cemitas de Los Angeles keeps prices near 35 pesos on 5 Sur in Puebla, a small counter that trades on volume rather than on any kind of decor.
Try: Cemita
Tip: Around 35 pesos a cemita on 5 Sur, a plain counter that trades on price rather than on any kind of decor.
Antojitos Acapulco is a narrow 5 Poniente counter in Puebla frying molotes and pelonas, plus tacos de canasta, from mid-morning until eleven at night.
Try: Molotes and pelonas
Tip: Molotes and pelonas are fried to order here, so expect a short wait rather than a rack of them sitting warm.
Molotes La Ventanita is a hatch on 10 Poniente in Puebla selling nothing at all but molotes, Monday to Saturday, until the masa runs out at eight.
Try: Molotes
Tip: A hatch rather than a shop, selling only molotes, and it closes when the masa runs out rather than at a fixed hour.
Tacos Arabes Bagdad has folded spit-roast pork into pan arabe in Puebla since 1933 and has worked the 2 Poniente counter since 1945, one of two claimants.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: Ask for them con queso, and note the 2 Poniente branch is the original rather than the Mayorazgo or Humboldt ones.
Tacos Beyrut opens only in the evening on 5 Poniente in Puebla, carving pork off the vertical spit into warm pan arabe for around 24 pesos a taco.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: Evenings only, closed Sundays, and the spit tends to be at its best in the first hour after opening at 17:30.
El Taco Poblano on 9 Oriente in Puebla runs one of the cheapest taco arabe deals in the Centro, two tacos for roughly 30 pesos, all day long.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: Two tacos for roughly 30 pesos and an eleven-hour trading day, which makes this the easiest cheap arabe in the Centro.
Taqueria Katy sells tacos arabes at about 16 pesos each in Barrio de los Remedios, Puebla, which is why the queue starts well before the evening.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: About sixteen pesos a taco in Los Remedios, so the barrio prices are worth the taxi if you are eating in numbers.
Taqueria El Jardin sits by the Acocota market in Puebla and sells tacos arabes at roughly 15 pesos, among the cheapest of any spit in the city.
Try: Tacos árabes
Tip: At roughly fifteen pesos a taco this is the cheapest spit in the city, next to the Acocota market north of the Centro.