Nice summary.

A couple of comments from a visit two weeks ago—

- indeed, the street food is varied and tasty. As for hygiene, from what I’ve noticed at both street carts and restaurants, there’s still much to be desired (e.g. chefs eating a pambazo, dipping their fingers into a vat of guisado, etc)

- stayed at the jw marriott in polanco. Nice heated pool, crowded executive lounge but with decent breakfast spread, short walk to a number of restaurants, and the metro station Auditorio. service was ok (got free exec lounge for one night because of a dirty room.

- metrobus, screw it. Tried taking it, but everyone (passengers/cops) said i needed a card from the metro (train) to use it. I’m no of BRT systems, as it turns out. However, taxis and uber were really cheap, as was the metro, so NBD.

- had a taco night in narvarte; tacos manolo, el vilsito, and los parados. The first two had quality tacos al pastor, and the latter, mixed bag, but i dug the chicharron de queso (basically, why not make a taco shell out of this?)

- terminal 1, what a mess, but there are plenty of food options pre-security.