Omakase Isn’t Just for Japanese Food. Ask These Taqueros.

Mexico City’s Centro Histórico, as its name implies, is a gateway to the past planted in the present. The neighborhood, a grid-style network choked with locals shopping and commuting to work and tourists getting lost, is paved with brick and uneven cobblestone. The streets are framed by colonial buildings occupied by museums, government offices, and family restaurants and walk-up taquerias with decades of stories woven into their faded awnings. At the center is the Zócalo, a breathtaking public square punctuated by the worn national cathedral and the Aztec Templo Mayor behind and underneath it.Not everything there is patinated, though. Some aspects are polished, new, even trendy, such as Taco Tasting Room, a restaurant from chef Pepe Salinas that opened in May 2025. In the narrow,…

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