Restaurant in Mexico City?
 

Can anyone recommend restaurants in Mexico City? We'll be going there in a couple of days with my son, who while generally well behaved is still only a year old. Thus any appropriate recommendations would be much appreciated

Mexico City is huge, and not necessarily easy to get around, so part of it all depends on where you all are.

One place I recommend is San Angel Inn, an old Carmelite monastery and hacienda that is now a premier lunch and dinner place, but it is off in the south end of town (see www.sanangelinn.com)

Did you go yet?

In Saveur magazine, they come out with the Saveur 100 which lists food items/restaurants they found profound.

El Cardenal was listed as a wonderful restaurant for breakfast and other times.

In an article from business traveler, a writer states: "I had been invited to lunch at El Cardenal, an upscale Mexican restaurant in Mexico City’s reemerging Historic Center. There, I played Russian roulette à la carte, allowing my host to do the honors of ordering for me. After she buttered me up with a couple of margaritas, the plates began to arrive.
First came escamoles al epazote, a traditional Aztec dish of sautéed ant eggs. It looked almost like a hearty couscous, so I was able to get it past my lips, and to my surprise, it was quite tasty. But with the second dish, there were no comforting comparisons, except for maybe picturing short, fat pasta with lots of tiny legs. Yep, worms—or if you prefer the El Cardenal moniker, gusanos de Maguey, worms of the Maguey plant. I might have tried something like it one night in college after finishing off a bottle of mescal. But that was one worm stewed in alcohol. Here were dozens, freshly fried.
So now, as I finished my quesadilla, I prepared for what Enrique was eagerly waiting to tell me. “What was in it?” I asked.
“Excrement of the gods!”
Gulp.
“That’s how the word huitlacoche translates. It’s actually a fungus that grows on corn,” he elaborated.
“Fungus? Like a mushroom? That’s not so bad,” I replied.
If you think Mexican food is just tacos and burritos, you should probably just keep thinking that way. And if you think of Mexico City as a polluted, crime-ridden and traffic-jammed megalopolis, you’re sort of right, but it’s on the up. In fact, the champion of urban sprawl is in the throes of a full-blown cultural boom that extends beyond the culinary arts.
Clues abound outside Mexico that this is so. Witness the recent international success of Mexican films like Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien. (Newcomer director Fernando Eimbcke’s Temporada de Patos could be next.) Contemporary Mexican art has also been enjoying worldwide acclaim.
But to many people who haven’t visited Mexico City in recent years, the city’s reputation is still as one in perpetual decline, and reputations can be hard to shed.
Fortunately, however, I had been clued in that Mexico City is a different place these days. As soon as I arrived, I followed the advice of a Mexican friend in New York and purchased a copy of dF, a local magazine and guide dedicated to “what’s happening” in the District Federal, or DF, as the city is officially known. "

El Cardenal is my favorite restaurant in Mexico City for breakfast. It is also a favorite of politicians; La Cochinita spotted the leading candidate for Presidente de la Republica eating at the next table on one of her own visits.

Chef Rick Bayless suggested restaurant Fonda El Refugio

Here is a review from the LA Times: http://travel.latimes.com/destinatio...-refugio/index

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I liked Saks a lot and it's nice but still okay for a baby.

I enjoyed La Fonda El Refugio. It is very conveniently located in the Zona Rosa.

I have been staying at the Sheraton Centro Historico where the El Cardenal is located. Agreed it is a very good restaurant.

I also like Angus Steak House. I have been to the locations in the Zona Rosa and Polanco. I prefer the Zona Rosa location as it has lots going on and has a large outdoor patio.