We offer two types of boxes that you can buy and that will be delivered to your address in Mexico City. Each box contains a selection of Mexican food products that will vary each week to compliment your pantry with a fantastic collection of Mexican flavors to enjoy during the Covid confinement.

Hereafter, we share some facts about the two gastronomic boxes we have available, so you identify the products they contain and you get to know their origin.

Sabores de Barrio 

The first takeaway option is the “Sabores de barrio” (the block’s flavors) box. It contains a variety of quality and great flavored Mexican products and dishes. For the first week, flavors include artisanal Mexican wine, beer, coffee, tortillas, tamales, jams, and chocolate.

Wines from Tinto MX are produced with crops from the Santo Tomás Valley in Ensenada, Baja California. With labels like Medio Cielo Azul, Eva, and Narcissus, this producer looks forward to positioning Mexican wine worldwide, demonstrating that wine is not an exclusive drink and showing that it can be matched with many dishes.

On another note, the tortillas from Cintli Tortillería are unique not only because of the superfood tortilla versions available (hemp, kale, or quinoa tortillas). These tortillas are produced with creole maïze harvested in Mexico and use nixtamalización, the traditional Mesoamerican technique for their preparation. 

In Oscuro Puro, chocolate is more than a craving or a compliment for food. The chocolate bars, desserts, and drinks they produce and sell are made from scratch with native cacao from Tabasco and Chiapas. These products have no artificial flavors or chemicals, and they truly conserve the authentic flavor of Mexican cacao. 

Besides their excellent roasted coffee beans, Café Barajas is well known for its versatile and energizing Cold Brew, which implies an eighteen-hour extraction process that involves high caffeine concentrations and procures a drink that can be combined with many flavors.

Prepared food from La Pitahaya Vegana is inspired by Mexican cooking but characterized by twisting it. Their dishes promote a sustainable lifestyle and use local seasonal ingredients with trustworthy origins. In addition, people from La Pitahaya are always in search of new techniques and flavors to share the best of Mexican food in their style. This is some of the best vegetarian food in Mexico City. 

Rather than specializing in coffee, Café de Raíz is the place for tamales. Here, the classic rolled maïze paste dishes from Veracruz, like the rice and cheese tamal, the mushroom tamal, or the cheese and hoja santa tamal, are perfectly well executed with quality and flavored ingredients.

Artisanal beers from Cervezas Artesanales Cinco Soles represent a Mexican legend via five types of fermented beers with unique flavors, aromas, and sensations.

Last but not least, Rebelión defines itself as a “collection of sensory expressions around the genuine national drink, mezcal.” With Espadín and Bicuishe, original mezcales from Oaxaca, Michoacán, and Estado de México, Rebelión seeks to disseminate the cultural legacy of this drink and highlight the flavors that can be obtained with its distillation.

Mercado en Casa

If you want quality, fresh, and exotically flavored everyday eating items, the second box, “Mercado en casa” (market at home), is for you. This box includes various Mexican ingredients from some of the best producers and distributors in the famous San Juan Market. For the first week’s flavors, Mercado en Casa includes a sample of Mexican raw exotic meat, some cheeses, deli meats, and artisanal jams.

El Gran Cazador is a familiar enterprise dedicated to meat distribution. They are highly known in the market for their Mexican, exotic, and prehispanic products. Their catalog includes classic chicken, duck, beef, and lamb meat, but one can also find unusual ones like crocodile, boar, and ostrich meat. On the other hand, salsas and jams from Manuel are really popular inside the San Juan Market. These prepared food items result from his experiments and combine Mexican flavors in original and innovative ways.

Seasonal fruits and vegetables from Rosse Gourmet are meticulously selected and their freshness is more than evident, which makes them perfect for any Mexican dish you’re willing to cook at home. Besides that, La Jersey Gourmet is one of the best-imported cheeses and deli meat distributors in the San Juan Market not only because its variety of lactic products on sale but because of its incomparable quality. Finally, the dried nuts, mole, and chili from Malena are an example of the unique flavors and textures that compose Mexican gastronomy and are undoubtedly worth the try.

Now that you know more about the producers, restaurants, and local stores participating in this project, dare to try the best gourmet flavors, fresh products, and exotic delights Sabores México Food Tours has chosen for you. Don’t forget to follow us on our social media to stay tuned and be the first to know what’s happening. Remember, #ComeLocal and support small food businesses because nobody surrenders to problems in Mexico. 

Article by: María José Ordóñez Platas

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To eat the best Mexico City street food, you must challenge yourself and wander through the streets, finding the best carryout food or “garnachas” from the neighborhood. The best street food stalls offer low prices, fast service, and can be enjoyed easily, standing on the sidewalk, next to students and office workers or “godínez”. 

José N. Iturriaga, an acclaimed Mexican historian and gastronomical writer, claims that “the essence of cravings is in their name: they’re eaten for the pleasure of eating — you crave the sensation”.

So, now that you know the centrality of street food in Mexican culture, we recommend some of the best types of snacks. Whether fried food longings or just cravings that reflect an everyday tradition from our capital, we will help you eat like a local during your visit.

(And, if you’re heading to Mexico City and wish to explore the street food scene in the company of passionate local foodies, consider joining us for our Mexico City Food Tour in the Historic City Center.)

Out Favorite Mexican Street Foods

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• Café de olla (pot coffee) and baked goods:

  You can normally find these on street corners and are almost always sold by a young man riding a bicycle. You can recognize them for the plastic-covered basket or the bright orange container tied to the front part of the vehicle. 

• Chicharrón preparado con cueritos (prepared pork rind):

  They cost a maximum of thirty Mexican pesos and undoubtedly make hunger disappear. They’re often flat and have cream, chopped cabbage, tomato slices, avocado cubes, lemon juice and a considerable amount of red salsa on top. 

• Dorilocos:

  This is a very creative snack, perfect for those who can handle chili extremely well. It consists of a “Doritos” bag, with chopped jicama and cucumber, some cracker nuts, chamoy, lemon juice and a lot of red salsa. 

• Esquites:

  We advise you to ask for them “con todo” (with everything) because the lemon juice, mayonnaise, grated white cheese, and powdered chili make these cooked corn grains’ flavor stand out and transform the corn-in-a-cup eating experience into a whole new thing. Don’t worry if you don’t tolerate a lot of hotness. There are always two types of powdered chili, with one of them being free of too much heat. 

• Quesadillas:

  There is a never-ending food conflict between Mexico City Mexicans and those from outside our capital regarding whether quesadillas must or mustn’t contain cheese. However, the classic “folded tortilla” can be prepared with or without cheese, can be fried or heated on a Mexican griddle or comal and goes perfectly well with mushrooms, corn smut or huitlacoche, pumpkin flowers or pork rind. 

• Tortas de tamal:

  Also called “guajolotas”, these are favorites for those who just have time to eat once a day because they are a complete meal more than a craving. The combination of wheat bread with a corn tamal is beyond question, something you can only try in Mexico, and that will definitely taste better if paired with hot flavored atole. 

• Tortas de chilaquiles:

  The tortilla chips prepared with shredded chicken or breaded meat, green or red salsa, cheese, cream, and onions, better known as “chilaquiles”, are put inside a wheat bread called telera, with black beans spread on the inside to be enjoyed, as a whole, as a takeaway, perfect for a rushed breakfast. 

• Tacos de canasta:

  They’re mostly found on sidewalks, inside a basket wrapped by a bright blue plastic cover, standing on a bike and under a sunshade. Whether you choose a potato, black bean or pork rind taco, it must not cost more than nine Mexican pesos. It should be soft, small and oily.

• Gaznates and meringues:

  You’ll identify them when you see a guy walking around with a wonderfully organized pyramid made out of cylinders standing over a tray covered with transparent plastic. Don’t mislead yourself with its bright pink filling; it is an exquisite Swiss meringue that goes perfectly well with the sweet fritter on the outside.

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• Raspado (Scraped ice drinks):

  During a sweltering day, the guy with a massive block of ice on top of a trolley will become your favorite person. You’ll get to choose one of the many-colored syrups on the big glass bottles and personalize the flavor of your refreshing scraped ice drink. 

After reading all this, you’ll probably start looking for the best quesadillas, the crunchiest prepared pork rinds, the best-served guajolotas or the most refreshing scraped ice drinks. Good luck! We’re sure you’ll find amazing things nevertheless be always cautious when eating street food, be aware of the hygiene practiced with each ingredient and don’t forget your stomach’s sensitivity when trying new things.

Soon, you’ll be able to have a Mexico City’s street food experience in our Coyoacán Food Tour, so follow our social media and Sabores México Food Tours Blog, to be informed and stay tuned! 

Article by: María José Ordóñez Platas

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