Dinner with a View

After visiting the "mega-ofrenda" on Sunday, we walked a couple blocks from the Zócalo to a rooftop restaurant called "El Mayor".  It is located atop the flagship store of the Porrúa Bookshop chain.  There is also a café serving light meals where we have gone several times, but we had never been to the more elegant restaurant adjacent to it.  We decided to give it a try.

It is called "El Mayor" because it overlooks the excavations of the "Templo Mayor", the main Aztec temple.  Looking from the terrace you can see to the lower left the ruins of the temple.  To the right are the belltowers of the Cathedral, and in the background you can make out the Zócalo.

Alejandro started with the black bean soup with corn dough dumplings.  I had a traditional soup called "caldo Xóchitl"

For the main course, Alejandro had stuffed chicken breast in a tomato chipotle sauce.

I had red snapper Veracruz style.

The food was very good, although the restaurant is rather pricey.  Our bill with beverage and dessert came to 1300 pesos, about 75 dollars... expensive by Mexican standards, especially since we did not order wine or alcohol.

The restaurant had a nice "ofrenda" set up which honored Mexican cooks.

By the time we left, the sun was setting and the Day of the Dead lights on the Zócalo came on.