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Restaurante ChonvsCorazon De Maguey
Both Restaurante Chon and Corazon De Maguey are rated highly by professional reviewers. On balance, Restaurante Chon ranks marginally better than Corazon De Maguey. Restaurante Chon comes in at 77 with endorsements from 6 publications like Gayot, DK Eyewitness and Rough Guide.
Restaurante Chon
Fodor's
Lonely Planet
Gayot
DK Eyewitness
Rough Guide
National Geographic
Regina 160, Mexico City 06090
From $15/night
Fodor's "This unpretentious family-style restaurant, deep in a downtown working-class neighborhood, is famed for its menu of pre-Hispanic dishes." Full review
Lonely Planet "Pre-Hispanic fare is the specialty of this cantina-style restaurant. Sample maguey (agave) worms, grasshoppers, wild boar and other delicacies." Full review
Gayot13.0
"It is also most apt for the culinarily adventurous; the specialties of the house are from a pre-Hispanic menu." Full review
DK Eyewitness "The most famous restaurant in the city for pre-Hispanic food, the emphasis is on the food, not the mismatched furniture."
Rough Guide "A veritable eating adventure, with starters such as mescal worms, escamoles (ant eggs) or chapulines (grasshoppers), served with or without guacamole."
National Geographic "Pre-Hispanic cuisine spot at a rougher edge of the city center attracts the adventurous." Full review
Corazon De Maguey
Frommer's Lonely Planet
On the Grid
Plaza Jardin Centenario #9A City 04000
From $11/night
Frommer's "If you want a true "authentic" Mexican meal -- one worthy of the gods -- it ought to be accompanied with chapulines (dried grasshoppers) and mezcal (fermented agave drink)." Full review
Lonely Planet "Adorned with old glass jugs used for transporting booze, this attractive restaurant does traditional Mexican fare that's typically prepared in mezcal-producing regions." Full review
On the Grid "If you feel like eating and drinking while hanging around in Coyoacán you must go to Corazón de Maguey." Full review
