My Overview Of Oaxaca And Its Hinterland
El Retiro "Pajaro De Nieve," A Turnkey Retreat And Unsurpassed Culture Center At "La Villada" In Oaxaca, Mexico
"Pan con Madre" bakes "the only real bread in Oaxaca":
Don't miss Boulenc's Bakery right alongside equally superb Boulenc Restaurant:
Gourmand with its in-house charcuterie, home-brewed beers (and other Mexican artisan beers) is a great, very comfortable little restaurant where you can watch your food being prepared in the back-room charcuterie:
El Restaurante "Catedral":
Berlina German restaurant. A beer of glass of wine comes with each of the 10 fixed plates. I think this restaurant is very under-rated. The co-owner - a Oaxacan man married to a German woman is a sweetheart.
Mezzaluna serves good pizza "hand-slung" by the L.A. trained chef/owner. A great place if you plan to eat out on a warm night. You can see Santo Domingo Church from the rooftop eating area.
Le Crepe: Good, reasonably priced food with three balconies for two-three overlooking the Andador Turistico with partial view of Iglesia Santo Domingo two blocks away.
Buffet Breakfast (for a little under six dollars) on the second floor of Restaurante Terranova on the east side of the zocalo - from 9 A.M. til 12:45 p.m.:
Don't miss eating in Mercado 20 de Noviembre's meat-and-vegetable corridor where you pick out your cut of meat and the vegetables you want roasted along with it.
La Jicara - has a wide-ranging menu but is a vegan Mecca:
La Nonna - La Abuela is a loving little restaurant specializing in very good, inexpensive comida tipica right alongside Jardin Conzatti named after La Nonna's great grandfather, Cassio Conzatti, who went on to become one of Oaxaca's most notable botanists and an educator of national renown:
La Casa de La Chef on Calzada de la Republica, the curving road that separates the Historic District's right-angled grid-platted streets from Oaxaca's only outlying colonial neighborhood, Jalatlaco:
La Gran Torta - a little dog-eared but very good food and excellent posole:
Comedor Tipico "La Abuelita":
La Choza:
The next three economical restaurants come highly recommended although I have not eaten at any of them yet.
La Hormiga (in Barrio Reforma):
Casa Taviche:
La Rambla (in the fourth block below Independencia on the continuation of Calle Pino Suarez (which is called Xicotencatl) and then half a block to right on Rayon):