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Virtual Postcards Mexico City

WHERE I WAS: MEXICO CITY

The Roma Norte neighbourhood has exploded into a design and culinary hotspot—old-world facades rubbing shoulders with cutting-edge cafes, shops and galleries...

WHAT I SAW: ROMA NORTE, MEXICO CITY

Architecture in Roma Norte echoes Paris tracing back to Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Under Díaz, Mexico City was reshaped to mirror Paris, with grand boulevards...

WHERE I ATE: ROMA NORTE, MEXICO CITY

The iconic Rosetta delivers. Set in a romantic plant-filled townhouse, celebrated chef Elena Reygadas filters Mexican ingredients through a European lens...

WHAT I BOUGHT: ROMA NORTE, MEXICO CITY

It’s a very atmospheric niche perfume space—part boutique, part olfactory atelier—with sculptural bottles, warm wood interiors, and a quiet, almost museum-like pacing where you smell fragrances as if they’re artworks rather than products...

WHO I FILMED: ROMA NORTE, MEXICO CITY

Susana and I crossed virtual paths when I rented her apartment in Madrid years ago! We then stayed in touch, admirers of the other’s work...