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No. 26 in the world · November 2026

Café de Tacuba

Calle de Tacuba 28, Centro Histórico · Mexico City, Mexico

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The one cup to order

Café de olla, brewed with piloncillo and cinnamon in a clay pot, with a concha

When it's quiet: Weekday mornings, before the lunch crowd.

A tiled dining room serving the Centro since 1912, and the place to drink Mexico's own coffee: sweet, spiced and brewed in clay.

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Mexican café de olla with piloncillo and cinnamon

Mexican café de olla with piloncillo and cinnamon

15 min · 4 mugs. The clay-pot coffee of Mexican kitchens and old cafés like Café de Tacuba: coffee simmered with raw cane sugar, cinnamon bark and orange peel, warm and gently spiced.

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