Mexico
City overview
Mexico City is one of the great capitals of the Americas — a high-altitude metropolis where Aztec ruins sit under colonial palaces, world-class museums line a forest twice the size of Central Park, and the food runs from street tacos to tasting menus that draw travellers across a continent. It is also home to one of the largest and most organised Jewish communities in Latin America, roughly 40,000 people spread across Ashkenazi, Maguén David, Monte Sinaí and Sephardi kehilot. The community is concentrated in a ribbon of neighbourhoods running west from Polanco through Lomas de Chapultepec, Tecamachalco and Bosques de las Lomas out to Interlomas — which is where the synagogues, the kosher restaurants and the kosher supermarkets are. Polanco is where visitors stay, and it puts you within walking distance of a Chabad House, several batei knesset and a dense cluster of certified kosher dining. Few cities in the world combine this much to see with this much kosher infrastructure.
An eruv covers the main Jewish neighbourhoods of Mexico City — Polanco, Lomas, Tecamachalco, Interlomas, Bosques and Bosque Real. Because its status can change week to week, the community runs a dedicated line for checking before Shabbat: WhatsApp +52 56 2452 1110. The Chabad House states that it does not take responsibility for the eruv, so confirm directly before relying on it.
Mexico City
A Shabbat takeout service from the Lasova kosher meat kitchen in Tecamachalco, for travellers eating in their own apartment or hotel room rather than at a communal table.
How it works
Orders are placed in advance by WhatsApp on +52 55 5294 9746. No price list is published; the kitchen quotes on request.
Phone
+52 55 5294 9746Website
http://lasova.mx/Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.