Tacos, Museums, & Cocktails
Food Tour
After a breakfast at the hotel we headed out to explore the city a little more while making our way towards the Polanco neighborhood where we would meet for a food tour. Since it was Sunday, we were able to experience seeing many of the main thoroughfares closed for bike a pedestrians only. Every Sunday Mexico City shuts down many streets from 8am to 2pm for walkers, runners, and bikers. This Sunday being Palm Sunday, we also were able to see a Palm Sunday procession through the city. We also walked through Chapultepec Park which is one of the largest parks in Mexico, measuring over 1,700 acres.
The Polanco neighborhood is known for its luxury shopping, upscale restaurants, high-net-worth individuals, upscale hotels, and diplomatic missions and embassies. We stopped at 7 different restaurants and enjoyed a nice variety of different styles of Mexican cuisine.
Museos Soumaya & Jumex
After our tour, we decided to walk off some of the calories and head to Museo Soumaya. Museo Soumaya is a non-profit, private museum that houses over 66,000 works from 30 centuries of art including sculptures from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, 19th- and 20th-century Mexican art and an extensive repertoire of works by European old masters and masters of modern western art such as Auguste Rodin, Salvador DalÃ, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tintoretto. Thaddeus wanted us to take pictures of the building and I think we might bury him in photographs. On the way back to the hotel, we stopped into the free Museo Jumex, a contemporary art museum. After museum hopping, we grabbed an uber back to the hotel to relax a little.
Handshake
We had reservations at Handshake, voted The World’s Best Bar. There was a line out of the door as soon as we approached the building. The experience and the drinks were amazing. Everything was perfectly executed and the service was top notch.
Dinner
We finished the night exploring the Zona Rosa neighborhood and stumbled on a 24 hour street taco restaurant. Everyone lines up outside and gets a number like a New York deli.
