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Fonda Don Chon

  • Address: Regina 160, near La Merced market, Col. Centro, Mexico City
  • Phone: 55/5542-0873

Fodor's Review:

This unpretentious family-style restaurant, deep in a downtown working-class neighborhood, is famed for its pre-Hispanic Mexican dishes. A knowledge of zoology, Spanish, and Nahuatl helps in making sense of a menu that includes ingredients from throughout the republic. Escamoles de hormiga (red-ant roe) is known as the "caviar of Mexico" for its costliness, but you may have to acquire a taste for it. Among the exotic dishes are armadillo in mango sauce and fillet of wild boar.

  • Credit Cards: No credit cards
  • Closed: Closed Sun. No dinner

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