For a taste of some genuine Pre-Hispanic cuisine, head for Don Chon. For the last 40 years, Don Fortino Rosas, known as “Moctezuma’s chef” has run a restaurant whose menu features such delicacies as ground rattlesnake, ostrich in plum and tequila sauce, armadillo in mango sauce and fried grasshoppers with guacamole, a delicious snack to accompany a drink. Good appetisers are the tostadas de pejelagarto, corn wafers topped with the flesh of a prehistoric reptile endemic to the estuaries along the southern banks of the Gulf of Mexico; jalapeño chillies stuffed with cheese or tuna and the spicy panuchos with pork or venison, a spicy snack from the Yucatán peninsula. For those who find nothing on the menu that takes their fancy, Don Chon will prepare a dish of xoloescuintle, the Mexican hairless dog, as long as the customer brings the dog. A selection of delicious desserts are on hand to cool the mouth down, like coconut cake or various flavours of fruity ice-creams.

Regina No. 160, Colonia Centro. Tel. 5542 0873. Nearest metro station: Pino Suárez

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