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[angela olive]

Hi All,

I'm sitting here in my barracks room pining for beautiful Mexico, the City in particular. I thought i'd share just a few of my favorite places, and maybe learn some new ones. Here it goes....

1. Cafe Popular, Calle 5 de Mayo; great food, especially the tamales oaxaquenos with dark mole sauce in banana leaves.

2. El Hijo del Cuervo night club, Garibaldi; Laid back hang out with great music.

3. Isla de los Munecas, Xochimilco ; tell your gondolier to cruise you past island of the dolls. Surreal.

4. Almost any pulqueria I can find. They are disappearing.

5. Hostal Moneda, Calle Moneda 8; Maybe not the hostal with the most ammenities, but definitely with the best atmosphere. Roof top bar with hammocks.

[M@tt]

some places i like

viveros de coyoacan
calle amsterdam y parque mexico/parque espana
alameda in the morning during the week (when nobody is there)
ciudad deportiva in front of my apartment
ok, any green space really!

cafe popular
the view from sears on calle juarez/eje central
casa de azulejos
deja vu in polanco
korean restaurant on londres
japanese take out on rio volga
that street behind the cathedral
people watching in the metro
magazine rack at sanborns
reforma from insurgentes to chapultepec
main post office (maybe my favorite building in the city) and the art museum in front of it

this list took too long to write. i don't think mexico city is that great. however, it is interesting.

[angela olive]

All that stuff is good too...now I have more

drumming in the Zocalo at dusk
sweet, steaming hot atole on the street in the morning
yes the house of tiles is cool in an eccentric sort of way
Elotes con chile!!!
the extremely ornate post office
mariachis de Garibaldi
the view from torre latinoamericana
going for a ride in the country to get a break from the smog
going back into the smog to party in Zona Rosa
mezcal
going to sanborn's....only for the art
that art deco monstrosity, Palacio des Bellas Artes
walking thru the snake at Malinalco
eagles and butterflies in the country on the way to Cuernavaca
mezcal

[danielita]

My ALL time favourite place is Churreria El Moro...mmmm...churros con chocolate....

[delacosta]

Hotel Oxford near monumento de la revoluci�n. A once elegant hotel with oversized rooms, high ceilings and quaint little balconies jutting out over a small park with a fountain in the middle of it. The first time I stayed there some students were rehearsing a play in the park below my window. I watched them while sipping a great coffee from the bar/restaurant across the street, where the televisa guys who race around on motorbikes would be having breakfast. I love that bars in DF have espresso coffee machines.

The bar adjoing the Oxford is a friendly local hangout with lively charachters stopping by to take a break from working the streets. Every time I've been there there was at least one guitar player playing away. ANd not the kind that stand by your table expecting a tip. Appreciative tables would simple send over drinks.

Once at a conference our department from the uni stayed there, it was a copuple of blocks away from the fancy joint where the Brit Council was entertaining us. As we were walking over in the morning one of the profs asked us if we got channel 13 in our rooms. I didn't, but from the immediate blushing face of our department head, a very straight laced German lady, I could tell that she did.
Of course I no longer stay there now that I'm married, it's over to Narvarte and clean streets and respectable cafes, women in gym gear walking their poodles instead of tranvestite hookers making kissing sounds as potential clients walk by .

Has anyone on here ever been to the hotel where Burroughs lived in while in DF? I've always wanted to check it out.

[MELEE]

[Guy Courchesne]

Popular spot that Hotel Oxford. I stayed there two weeks upon first arriving in Mexico and had breakfast everyday at the Carelton restaurant.

[M@tt]

damn, and i wasted an entire month living in hotel principal on bolivar. i found out about oxford a couple months ago while wandering aimlessly through the neighborhood. it looked pretty nice. (in a budget hotel, metro revolucion kind of way)

[MELEE]

Like delacosta said, once an elegant lady, the Mrs. Havisham of Mexico's hotels....

[MO39]

Back here in the boring 'burbs of Philadelphia, I think fondly of my time(s) in the DF, especially parks and quiet spaces away from the crowds:

Parque Hundido on Insurgentes Sur somewhat near the Polyforum Siqueiros

Chapultepec Park near the Casa del Lago, pleasant even on Sunday

a tiny neighborhood "parquecito" at the end (or beginning) of Calle R�o Po, a few blocks in back of the US Embassy and El Angel

perhaps my favorite green areas, Parque M�xico and Parque Espa�a in Condesa

the interior patio of the Museo Franz Meyer in the Centro Hist�rico, across from the Alameda

And I musn�t forget my favorite "art" movie theater, the Reforma Lumiere, just off Reforma on Calle Guadalquivir, also in Colonia Cuauhtemoc.