![]() This is an atmospheric, romantic, beautifully and quirkily decorated restaurant on the north of the city center, which serves excellent regional food. Overall, in the trip, perhaps the best restaurant meal we had was in Zacatecas in ‘Los Dorados de Villa’ (see photo at the beginning of post). Perhaps because it was Xmas, or for the presence of the police, but there was a very relaxed atmosphere in San Luis Potosí. ![]() ![]() They are everywhere – on foot, riding around shotgun style in pick-up trucks as Mexican cops seem to love to do, and even on those rather surreal two-wheeled platforms that I have only ever seen before in European airports. I don’t think I have ever seen so many police as in San Luis Potosí. This was my visit visit to San Luis Potosí and, apart from the warmth, I enjoyed very much walking around the semi-pedestrianised compact historic center and looking at the old colonial architecture and the different museums. I find it impossible to say which is my favourite, although my son has a clear preference for Guanajuato. The original plan had also included a visit to Real De Catorce, a small mining town some 300 kms north-east of Zacatecas but it was so cold in Zacatecas, (bitter enough to remind me of Xmas in England), and I was suffering from a chest infection, that it seemed wiser to head eastwards to the warmer temperatures of San Luis Potosí.Īll three of the ex-colonial cities we visited – Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, and Guanajuato – are interesting and each is very particular in its own right. Teocaltiche was the first overnight stop on a Xmas tour to some of the old colonial cities of the center of Mexico. We bought our juices – mine a mixture of orange, carrot and beetroot- and sat down for the perfect breakfast of gorditas filled with rajas (spicy peppers) and bistek con chile. Opposite there was a roadside stall cooking gorditas – thick tortillas slit in half and filled with a variety of fillings. ![]() In a small plaza by the side of a church we came across a shop selling fruit where the owner was also preparing juices. The time in my life I was most sick through food poisoning was in a luxury hotel in Malaysia.Īnyway, after spending the night en route to Zacatecas in Teocaltiche – an attractive small town in Los Altos de Jalisco recommended to me by two Mexican friends – my son and I were walking through the streets looking for breakfast. And I’m not sure there is a clear connection between price and hygiene. Coincidentally, as Nick Gilman has just comented in his blog on Good Food in Mexico City: “From Bayless to Bourdain to Bittman, the word is out: Mexican Street Food is in!”Īlthough one has to be careful about hygiene and street food, a good rule of thumb is that if the place is popular it is likely to be clean. ![]() The food is generally fresh, cooked on the spot, and often wonderfully tasty. One of the unending adventures of eating in Mexico is wandering through an unknown town and stumbling across somewhere unexpected to eat in the street. ![]()
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