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The Best of Santa Maria de la Ribera

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Santa María la Ribera, little known to most travelers, is a beautiful, 19th-century neighborhood of cafés and restaurants, plus traditional shops you’re starting to see less of in Mexico City. On this tour, you’ll visit the best places to eat in the area and you’ll learn the stories of the vendors and entrepreneurs who are shaping the modern character of this close-knit, artsy neighborhood. Some of the tour's highlights include visiting a working tamales factory that offers more than 20 varieties daily, strolling through the local market to see how a traditional city market looks and feels, popping into a neighborhood cooking school and restaurant that helps locals who may want to start their own food businesses. You'll also stop by a pulquería that’s drawn neighborhood residents for more than 100 years.
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  • One agua fresca and one coffee or tea at the end of the tour
  • A generous taste of traditional Mexican pulque
  • One Mexican microbrew or Mezcal
  • As much food as you can eat (enough food for a large breakfast and lunch combined)
  • Transport to/from the meeting and end points of the tour
  • Souvenirs
  • Tip for your guide
  • Additional personal beverages, outside what’s included on the tour itinerary
Departure Point

Alameda de Santa María, Calle Salvador Díaz Mirón, Sta María la Ribera, Cuauhtémoc, 06400 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico Please meet us on the southside in front of the steps. Your guide will be wearing a blue Eat Mexico pin for identification.

Return Details

C. Dr. Enrique González Martínez 32, Sta María la Ribera, Cuauhtémoc, 06400 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico The tour ends at Estanquillo El 32, a family-run restaurant/store that sells a variety of products like craft beer, artisanal mezcal, coffee, honey, salsas and much more!

  • Santa Maria la Ribera, Mexico City, Mexico
    Santa María la Ribera was founded in the 1860’s, and it still retains its turn-of-the-century character. On this tour, designed by our expert culinary guide Nico Garcia, you’ll visit a range of local places that highlight just how special this neighborhood is. You’ll stop at a neat local garden, where you’ll make your own herb-infused Mexican salt. You’ll visit a working tamales factory that offers more than 20 varieties daily—a place we think supplies the best tamales in the city. Plus you’ll do a quick stroll through the local market, to see how a traditional city market looks and feels. You’ll pop into a neighborhood cooking school and restaurant that helps locals who may want to start their own food businesses. And you’ll stop by a hidden pulquería—a place with swinging saloon doors and no sign—that’s drawn neighborhood residents for more than 100 years, each imbibing the fermented Mexican beverage that traces its roots to prehispanic times. You’ll also see some of the landmarks that make Santa Maria la Ribera what it is, including a century-old geology museum. As a sweet treat, we’ll also try buñuelos, or crunchy, fried dough topped with sugar syrup.
    180 minutes
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
LetJustSee
14 Apr 2023
Clara led us on an incredible tour of Santa Maria de la Rebera. She was thoughtful, kind, fun, funny and knowledgeable. In fact, she was an expert. The tour started off in a gorgeous (and safe) public park in this really nice and relatively underappreciated (by tourists) neighborhood. We walked a little bit here, and a little bit there, but we ate a TON of delicious food. I don’t want to give away the tour stops, or spoil any of their secrets, so I’ll just say that we ate: Beers, sodas & waters Conchas Chicharrones Guacamole Lots of Tamales Atole con Guava Lots of tacos Consommé Agua Frescas Fruit Delicious amuse bouche Cocktails, mocktails &more sodas The tour was incredible, and the food was terrific, but the star of the show was the amount of education we absorbed along the way. We learned about ingredients, cuisines, foods, and beverages from a real culinary professional. Clara knows how to explain the how and why without boring your family into a coma. She was energetic and gracious as a tour guide, but she also quickly became our friend. We’re going to stay in touch for sure. We all agreed that this was our favorite tour of CDMX (and we did quite a few) and that if we had known, that we would’ve STARTED our 8-day trip to CDMX with this tour. The other neighborhoods that you read about and learn about, and pay to tour are great, but they should come AFTER you first learn about urban Mexican culinary history and ingredient profiles in a safe, but out-of-the-way neighborhood. Coyoacan, La Condesa, Roma Norte, Polanco, and even the Historico Centro would all be more fun to visit for the first time AFTER you first take this tour. One last note, the many Markets in CDMX seem daunting to visit without guidance, but Clara walked us through the La Dalia, which is a typical urban marketplace in CDMX, and now we feel much more prepared to visit the bigger ones like San Juan or Bazaar de Sabado.
Vacation07412929904
09 Apr 2023
I've been on many food tours around the world, but I can safely safe this was one of the best planned and thoughtful food tours I've ever been on. My guide, Nico, has a background in the food industry and has lived and worked in Mexico City for well over a decade, which allowed him to develop a custom agenda full of insider knowledge that made this charming neighborhood come to life. Nico's tour, which combined the neighborhood's history with food, drink, architecture, and notable historical figures, will make you want to move to Santa Maria de la Ribera. It goes without saying that the range of food items we sampled was amazing. Nico is a perfect guide for the novice traveler to CDMX or can provide a more seasoned traveler with that extra off-the-beaten path experience. I can't wait to go back!
jackie2334
11 Jan 2023
We loved our guide Nico! He was super friendly and incredibly knowledgeable. We visited seven restaurants and had a delicious time. Our favorite thing was walking through the local markets and see all of the colorful food. We ate such yummy, authentic Mexican food. It is a fantastic tour and this was probably the highlight of our trip. I would recommend this highly. Don't miss it!
This tour in Mexico City is organized by Eat Mexico Culinary Tours

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