2018 Primetime Emmy
& James Beard Award Winner
Roam
Mexico City
CDMX Under the Volcano 2025
Jan 17-21, 2025
Only four days and nights to tackle one of the world’s richest and wildest culinary cities? No problem. Here’s the plan: start strong, end hard, rely on our smartest and most well-connected friends in the city to show us how to cook and eat and drink well, Chilango-style. And we’ll be spending deep moments at the remarkable Hacienda San Andrés for a dive into the rich rural and culinary heritage that surrounds CDMX.
Our Host
Founder, Eat Like a Local
Ro Vasquez
Trip Guide
R&K Co-Founder
Nathan Thornburgh
R&K Trip Itinerary
All costs on the ground are included, including transport (we’ll be moving around in Mercedes Sprinters or, in the chinapas, in trajinera boats), tips, accommodation, food, drinks and more. You’re responsible for any travel insurance, personal laundry costs, and for your flights to and from CDMX.
Jan 17-21, 2025
Day 1
Jan 17 Fri
Bienvenido güey
- Casa Izeba
- Colima 183, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México
- +525548733306
- Private transfer to our home in CDMX, Casa Izeba, a gem in the heart of Roma Norte
- Welcome wines at Casa Izeba with our co-host Rocío Vasquez, one of CDMX’s most innovative travel hosts and entrepreneurs.
- First night dinner at Rosetta, one of the World’s 50 Best restaurants 2023, the elegant Roma jewel of chef Elena Reygadas
- Joining us at dinner will be Sophie Avernin: sommelier, winemaker, writer
Day 2
Jan 18 Sat
Markets and More
- Casa Izeba
- Colima 183, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México
- +525548733306
- Coffee and Cacao in Condesa
- Breakfast of conchas and tacos de canasta
- Subway to the market
- An insider’s tour through Mercado de Jamaica fresh market for a masterclass on the region’s produce and products with the female-run and -led crew of Eat Like a Local. Plus, pulque!
- Siesta! Or shopping in Juárez if you’re too wired to sleep.
- Happy hour hosted bar service at our house manned and planned by Limantour, perennial member of The World’s 50 Best Bars
- Late-night taco and mezcal crawl with Rocio and her company Eat Like a Local
Day 3
Jan 19 Sun
CDMX Origin Story
- Hacienda San Andrés
- 56770 Ayapango, State of Mexico, Mexico
- +52 55 1973 1675
- Early rise today for a glorious morning on the chinampas, the last remaining pre-Hispanic laguna landscape in CDMX. Cafe de olla at sunrise in the pre-Hispanic glory of Xochimilco
- Keep heading south, to the volcanic plains of Ayapango, where we’ll spend the day and night at the Hacienda San Andrés, an agricultural pillar of the region since 1535, now reimagined in the hands of chef Marco Margain.
- Siesta, of course.
- Happy hour looking out over the fields of maize toward Mt Popocatépetl
- A full traditional Barbacoa, including lamb slaughter for those who want to witness the sacred sacrifice of this life-giving food source of central Mexico
Day 4
Jan 20 Mon
The Legends of the Volcano
- Hacienda San Andrés
- 56770 Ayapango, State of Mexico, Mexico
- +52 55 1973 1675
- Wake warmly with the frost outside, have a gorgeous rural breakfast at Hacienda San Andrés
- Optional early morning market run to see the bounty of rural Mexican markets
- Full traditional barbacoa lunch on the ranch
- Afternoon of cooking classes or horse riding on the high plains near Mt Popocatépetl
- Happy hour of cocktails by the bonfire with seasonal ingredients
- Last night big-deal four-hands dinner with chef Marco and a visiting CDMX chef
Day 5
Jan 21 Tue
A la próxima
- One last breakfast at Hacienda San Andrés
- Private transfer back to Mexico City airport for your flight home or to central CDMX if you’re staying longer