Supermarkets

Supermarkets

If you're staying longer in the city you may want to buy foods or groceries and the city has hundreds of supermarkets including :

• Chedraui
• Comercial Mexicana
• Soriana
• Superama High end supermarket
• Wal-Mart

Ethnic Grocery Stores

For generally hard-to-find ingredients, such as vegetables and spices that are unusual in Mexico, try the Mercado de San Juan (Ernesto Pugibet street, Salto del Agua metro station). You can find exotic meats here, such as iguana, alligator, ostrich, and foie gras.

Check out the cheese stand in the centre for some good samples!

Arabic

• Al Mayak Cuauhtemoc Avenue and Guanajuato, Colonia Roma. Owned by Lebanese businessmen, they sell ingredients and foodstuff. They also sell sweets and dried fruits.

Korean

• Supermercado Seul Florencia Avenue and Hamburgo Street, Zona Rosa.

• Seoul Market Hamburgo 206, Zona Rosa.

• Uri Market Londres 234, Zona Rosa.

Japanese

• Mikasa San Luis Potosi 170, get from Insurgentes Sur Avenue, between Medellin and Monterrey. Lots of Japanese food ingredients, sweets and drinks

• Kokeshi Amores 1529, Colonia del Valle (between Parroquia street and Felix Cuevas Avenue (Eje 7). Mostly Japanese food products but they also sell other Asian foods and sell Japanese dinnerware. Tel. 55347131

Asian

Chinatown strip south of Palacio de Bellas Artes and Alameda Central.

• Super Kise Division del Norte 2515, Del Carmen, Coyoacan. South of the city, they sell Korean, Chinese and Japanese groceries.

Kosher

Many food products in Mexico including milk are kosher compliant. If you're looking for specific products, try some stores in the Polanco neighborhood. At some Superama branches you would find kosher departments, especially the ones in Polanco, Tecamachalco and Santa Fe neighborhoods as they have a large Jewish community.