AH, MEXICO CITY!
solo magia
I don’t think that I could find the words to convey how much I love Mexico City. Everything was beyond our expectations: the people, the culture, the vibrancy, affordability, and OMG, the food! It seems to be everyone’s favorite city these days, so I was more than thrilled to go when my daughter Cameron chose it for her college graduation trip. Since so many friends had been there recently, I was able to put together a fantastic list of where to eat and what to do (more on that later!) So of course, I planned the entire trip around food and made reservations for lunch and dinner every day. I highly recommend all of the restaurants below. These were the ones that we managed to get to and loved. There are so many more that I hope to get to next time.
restaurants
FRIDA
There were many reasons why I wanted to go to Mexico City. I had heard so many wonderful things about its vibrancy, culture, good food and the special people. All true and more! But the thing that I was looking forward to most was visiting CASA AZUL, Frida Kahlo’s childhood home. It was not only where was she born but where she lived with her husband Diego Rivera and ultimately died.
In 2019 I had been to the exhibit Appearances Can Be Deceiving at the Brooklyn Museum which was an incredible display of Frida’s personal artifacts which included her Tehuana clothing, jewelry, hand painted corsets and the prosthetics that she wore most of her life, all of which had been stored at Casa Azul and could not be shared until 15 years after Frida’s death in 1954.
But I really wanted to see where this incredible person/woman/artist lived and worked. The museum is located in Coyoacan, one of Mexico City’s oldest neighborhoods. I have always been so fascinated with Frida and her incredible paintings portraying her physical and emotional pain. She was so unique and uncompromising in everything that she did. Her strength, her talent, her style and uniqueness is memorizing. Such an iconic symbol, legendary!
Frida is considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Did you know that this past November one of her self-portraits, DiEGO Y YO, sold for $34.9 million dollars at a Sotheby’s Auction in NYC? It was the most expensive work ever sold by a Latin American artist at auction. WOW.
A pilgrimage to CASA AZUL is a must.