On a Sunday morning, before nine, there’s already a line at Barbacoa El Pica. Townspeople with their pots, families who drove in from far away, steam rising off the consommé. Eating barbacoa here isn’t an errand: it’s part of the weekend, one of those things you tell people about afterward. Twenty minutes from the house, it’s the first thing we recommend and the one nobody regrets following.
Eating with history all around
Near the pyramids is La Gruta, a restaurant inside a real cave, tables set under the rock and light coming down from above. The food is good, but above all you eat it in a place that looks like nowhere else. It’s the kind of meal you remember as much for the flavor as for where you had it. El Jaguar, also right by the archaeological site, is another safe stop when the day is about pyramids.
And then there’s Papalotla, the town next door, with its charming square and its food stands. No reservation, no dress code: you sit down, order whatever the day’s dish is, and watch the morning go by. It’s the perfect counterpoint to a white-tablecloth restaurant.
Or don’t leave the house at all
Some days the whole plan is to have no plan, not get in the car, not decide anything. For those days we cook traditional Mexican food right there, with at least an hour’s notice, from seven in the morning to ten at night. Home-style dishes, made slowly. And if you’d like, there’s a cook on hand: someone who talks the menu over with you, prepares it to your taste and leaves the kitchen spotless, so all you do is sit down to the table with your people.
Because in the end, a good weekend is measured partly by what you ate and who you ate it with. Near Teotihuacán there’s plenty to choose from, and when you’d rather not choose, we’ll handle it.
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