The Floating Gardens
Nativitas and Caltongo, the main embarcaderos, are near the center of Xochimilco;
embarcadero Cuemanco leads to Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco
www.xochimilco.df.gob.mx
Los Danzantes
Plaza Jardin Centenario 12,
Col. Villa Coyoacan,
Mexico City
Telephone:
(55) 5554-1213, (55) 5554-2896
coyoacan@losdanzantes.com
So we went on a 2 hour car ride to visit this river experience that N really wanted to try.
It looked like this:
AKA – the floating gardens of Xochimilco.
And at the time, we felt like… hmmm, 2 hour car ride for this?
(Looking back, I see the value; listening to a real live Mariachi band, being on the type of boat rides that fill the weekend lifestyle of local Mexicans, and there are lots of black and white photographs of Frida Kahlo doing the same…).
But at the time. We all looked at N and had a good laugh.
Fortunately, not too far, in a nearby neighbourhood (Coyoacán), there is a gorgeous restaurant. Highly recommended by many.
Los Danzantes. Of course, it helps that Frida’s house (no photography permitted, hence no blog post) is also in the same district.
Pre-lunch. Sip it don’t slurp it. Or it will BURN.
Mezcal is so potent, even N couldn’t finish hers.
All I can say is, I would fly back to Mexico for these memelas.
Traditional memelas the griddle with salsa verde, salsa roja and pestle, Cotija cheese accompanied matured and onion.
Yes, that is a zucchini flower. No, in Mexico they don’t frill it up as if its the piece that makes the dish.
Peasant soup with pumpkin, quelites, squash and corn.
Filled hoja santa Oaxaca cheese and goat cheese on a tomato sauce and green chile meco.
I judge food on how it looks. I’m really terrible at trying food which doesn’t look good. (Meeks is better than me and tried everything when we were in India – and I’m meant to be the Indian in the house). This rather interesting looking leaf concoction is divine. Worth trying.
All this is making me so hungry its not funny. And in the mood to travel again…
Hope you aren’t feeling too hungry – its a toasted sandwich for me (so you aren’t alone if you’re feeling the misery!) xx K