10 Best Markets in Mexico City

Mercado San Juan is a traditional market that offers an extensive array of foods and ingredients, including exotic items perfect for home cooks, foodies, and professional chefs. The exotic meats on offer here are particularly interesting, as you'll find items like boar, crocodile, and even lion in some cases.

When you visit this market, you'll find plenty of fresh foods and ingredients, with most of them sourced from Mexico. Some of the more exotic foods, however, come from Central America and the United States. You'll find this market in Centro just a few steps southwest from the historic centre.

El Bazaar Sábado is an arts and crafts market where you can find items from local artisans and talk to them about their craft and what makes their work special. You'll find plenty of works that could spruce up your home, including paintings and sculptures.

In addition to the visual artworks, you'll also find an array of custom-made clothing and accessories, including jewellery. Additionally, you'll find live musicians and food vendors around. This market is located in the San Angel area, which is a few miles south of city centre.

Mercado de Sonora is a popular traditional market that offers a wide selection of goods, including some odd items like herbal medicines and things related to occult magic. While only taking up 2 aisles of the massive marketplace, the medicinal plants and magic items section is quite popular, as it offers amulets, black salt, and mysterious powders.

If you're looking for more typical items, you'll find plenty of candles, soaps, and lotions, though you may find it hard to resist the spell-casting services just for the interesting experience alone. Discover it all for yourself in Merced Balbuena southeast of city centre.

La Ciudadela is a market best known for its artisanal goods and handicrafts where you can find items like plates, bowls, toys, rugs, and more. The vendors here tend to be locals, so you can gain valuable insight into the artistic practices of the city.

When you visit this market, you'll notice that the vendors love to talk. You can learn all about their creations as well as their process if you're trying to get into pottery or crafting yourself. Plus, bargaining is acceptable here, so don't be afraid to haggle a bit. You can get to this market a short distance west from city centre just south of the Juárez subway station.

Mercado de Medellín is a area market that's home to a massive variety of produce and food items despite taking up just a single square block. Amongst the offerings here, you'll find some exotic produce from places like Colombia and Honduras in addition to the normal fruit and vegetables you might expect.

One of the most popular items here is the ice cream. This market features a Cuban heladería that offers delicious ice cream in flavours like chocolate, cinnamon, Nata, and coconut. You can try it all for yourself in Roma Sur southwest of city centre.

Central de Abasto is a massive wholesale market that typically sells items like foodstuffs to other markets, but it also sells directly to customers. This market handles more than 30,000 tonnes of merchandise every day, so you're sure to find something that suits your tastes.

This market has just about any kind of food item you can imagine, unless it's something particularly exotic. More than 2,000 vendors are available within, and they offer all sorts of fruit, meat, and vegetables with some processed foods, too. You can see it for yourself in eastern Iztapalapa southeast of city centre.

Mercado de Jamaica is a flower market where you'll find a variety of different species sold individually, in arrangements, and alongside stylish flower pots. Most of the selection here consists of foreign flowers, but there are a few native species as well, including some that are gathered near the market.

In total, you'll find about 5,000 different types of flowers to choose from, and despite the name, hibiscus (Jamaica in Spanish) doesn't dominate the selection. See the flowers for yourself in the Jamaica area south of city centre.

Dulces y Piñatas is a market where you'll find a vast array of sweets that the whole family can enjoy with fascinating names and delicious tastes. Amongst the selection, you'll find plenty of locally made sweets along with lollipops, dried fruits, and peanut brittle.

When you visit this market, don't be surprised if you see names of gelatins and sweets that you can't pronounce, even if you're completely fluent in Spanish. The weirder the name, the better the sweets tend to be. You can taste them for yourself in Zona Centro near city centre.

Mercado Roma is a gourmet food hall that extends across 3 floors where you'll find artisanal foods with upscale decor and a commitment to quality ingredients. The selection offers favourites like cheeses and macarons all made utilising local ingredients and traditional preparation with a modern twist.

When you visit this food hall, you'll find quite a variety of options like tacos, cured meats, coffee, and even a beer garden on the roof. You can find this market in Roma Norte west of city centre.

La Lagunilla is a popular flea market in town that offers a variety of different antiques with a bit of everything you can imagine available for purchase. Local traders come to show off their old antiques and retro items whether it's clothing, comics, furniture, or accessories.

Local artists also attend this market quite often, so you can get a taste of the local culture as well, with several artworks for sale. You'll also find a few food vendors here, so you don't have to go somewhere else to find a bite to eat. It's all located in Lagunilla just a few steps north of the historic city centre.