6 places to spend an afternoon.
Plaza Río de Janeiro is the neighborhood's living room - sit here with a coffee first. Gallery OMR on Córdoba for sharp contemporary art. Medellín Market for blue corn tlacoyos and dried chiles you won't find elsewhere.
3 things to do, 3 shops, all in Roma Norte.
The cultural day in Roma Norte runs on three speeds: Plaza Río de Janeiro for slow mornings under the David replica, Gallery OMR on Córdoba when you want to see what Mexican contemporary art is actually doing, and Medellín Market when the appetite kicks in. Pick your pace.
Stark white concrete gallery on Córdoba showing Mexico's sharpest contemporary artists. Openings draw the city's most interesting crowd.
A sprawling food hall where locals demolish blue corn tlacoyos between aisles of dried chiles and fresh mole paste. Come hungry, leave with a bag of something you didn't plan on buying.
The neighborhood's living room - a small oval park with a replica David statue, old men on benches, kids running circles. Bring a coffee and sit for a while.
Roma Norte's shopping leans cerebral and slow. Casa Bosques on Córdoba puts design monographs next to espresso, 180º on Colima cuts its runs upstairs from where it sells them, and Carla Fernández builds clothes around indigenous textile work without flattening it into souvenir.
Bookshop, gallery, and espresso bar stacked into one narrow Roma Norte space. The design and art titles on these shelves are genuinely hard to find elsewhere in the city. Stay for a coffee while you flip through.
Two stories of a converted Calle Colima house, with a workshop upstairs cutting and sewing the main line in runs of ten or fewer, and a small hotel tucked above that. Downstairs you'll find Mexican-made shoes, leather bags, Casa Bosques titles, and tees riffing on the 1968 Olympics graphics.
Mexican designer with a serious point of view, drawing on indigenous textile traditions without being costumey about it. The craftsmanship is obvious the second you touch anything.
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