

Behind the long coffee bar, under dangling globe lights, baristas concoct cold brews, affogatos, and more. Co-owned by local chef Fabian Delgado, this all-day restaurant, which roasts its own coffee, is one of the most-loved and visited spots in the city. Here are a few trends reshaping the city.īrunch and coffee have been on the rise since the opening of palReal in 2013. Guadalajara’s food scene has swiftly expanded with a spate of new openings, from all-day cafés to exciting new takes on local cuisine. The investments of some of the city’s culinary kings and queens have certainly paid off.

“Back then there were so few opportunities ,” says Ruano, who opened Alcalde eight years ago after he moved home from Europe, because it “felt like the right thing to do.” “After so many years not being home, I wanted to give back to my city.”Ĭhef Paco Ruano felt much the same way when he opened Alcalde, a traditional-yet-elevated Mexican restaurant that helped put Guadalajara on the fine-dining map. “I always wanted to open something here,” Covarrubias says. Now a must-visit dessert restaurant in the Providencia neighborhood, La Postreria beckons with its macarons and delicate chocolate and strawberry tarts, perfected by Covarrubias and her business partner Jesús Escalera, aka Latin America’s Best Pastry Chef in 2018 (so named by the regional edition of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards). There was nothing risky,” says Fernanda Covarrubias, a local pastry chef with an enviable CV: She worked under molecular gastronomy icons Ferrán Adriá in Spain and Heston Blumenthal in London before moving home to open La Postreria in 2013.

“Guadalajara used to be conservative in terms of food offerings. Navarro is one of numerous chefs firing up Guadalajara’s food scene with new-to-the-city culinary concepts. In the past decade, there has been a wave of local chefs and entrepreneurs-many, like Navarro, who honed their craft abroad before coming home-taking advantage of affordable rent to open new spots in the city, giving it a more cosmopolitan feel. But you might not compare it to, say, destination-restaurant cities like Mexico City in the same breath-until recently. It also has a deep-rooted street food culture, where vendors peddle torta ahogadas, crusty pork carnita sandwiches drowned in chile sauce, which are basically a national treasure. The capital city of Jalisco has a long history with tequila and exceptional local produce like cheese, corn, and avocados. Not that Guadalajara was a foodie wasteland-far from it. It was hard to find a place with both options.” We also bake everything onsite every day. “We wanted to have a place where our customers could enjoy a great piece of bread and a cup of specialty coffee. “I was recently in Bretagne, so I experimented with the same buttery and caramel flavor,” says pastry chef and co-owner Miren Navarro, a native Tapatio (colloquial for someone from Guadalajara) who worked and studied in Mexico City, Paris, and San Sebastian before opening the bakery with her older sister Edurne in late 2018. One basket is piled high with crispy guava and chocolate-filled karmelitas, a riff on the French kouign amann-and the bakery’s best seller.

The countertop is laden with a mix of Mexican and French pastries, conchas and croissants. Just at the top of Hotel 1970 Guadalajara, this bar offers an incredible view of the city, were sunsets can be enjoyed while tasting signature cocktails, a variety of tequilas and delicious the bar’s webpage, facebook page and other features.It’s a Friday morning and Karmele, a bakery-café in Guadalajara’s Acros Vallarta neighborhood, looks like something out of Sydney or Venice Beach: Patrons sip flat whites on a sun-drenched terrace, while staff inside in black tees hand out granola cookies, chocolate-dipped palmiers, and loaves of crusty sourdough bread.
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