El Jarocho is a cafe that sprawls out onto pavement benches just behind the two main squares. It is teeming with the life of Mexico City where you will find all strands of society. Grubby children pick their way through business types and the oldest of women wrinkle through the cosmopolitans.

A place to
Sit, drink,
Write and think.

Coyoacan, nearest metro: Coyoacan

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See another side of Mexico City in the Colonia La Condesa, a lively, trendy, and leafy part of town filled with restaurant and cafe terraces from which you can watch the beautiful people go by.

Nearest metro: Chilpancingo

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Next to the marble extravaganza that is the national Fine Arts Museum on the edge of the historic centre, this park is a magnet for working-class smooching couples, snake oil salesmen and general hawking. Rather run down but full of life, and a place I love to go to find faces full of character.

Nearest metro: Bellas Artes

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This little 16th-century town long swallowed up into the urban sprawl still has grace, charm and lots of life to watch wander by, although its days as a Mecca for the local intelligentsia are now over. The main square has several cafes and restaurants running along one side.

Nearest metro: Coyoacan

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