Best Restaurants Open on Sunday in Mexico City 2026

Gabriela Cámara opened Contramar in 1998 and turned a Roma seafood lunch into a city ritual. Sunday is its loudest, most joyful service, running 11am to 8pm. Order the tuna tostadas with chipotle mayonnaise and the pescado a la talla, a whole fish painted half red with chile and half green with parsley and finished on the grill. Reservations are essential; the room is packed with the city's most stylish Sunday crowd, and tables turn slowly because nobody wants to leave.

Azul Histórico sets its tables in a tree-shaded colonial courtyard inside a Centro mansion, and Chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita cooks a research-driven Mexican menu rooted in regional recipes. Sunday hours are generous, 9am to 11pm, covering breakfast through a late dinner. Order whatever regional special is running, the mole, and in late summer the chiles en nogada. The courtyard is the prize, so reserve for a midday table under the trees. It is one of the rare Centro rooms that serves seriously into the Sunday evening.

El Cardenal is the Sunday breakfast and lunch institution of the Centro, famous for the bowl of thick nata, fresh-baked sweet bread and frothy hot chocolate that opens the meal. The Palma Street flagship serves roughly 8:30am to 6:30pm on Sundays, so come for breakfast or an early comida rather than dinner. Order the nata to start, then a plate of the kitchen's slow-cooked classics. Lines form by mid-morning, especially near the cathedral, so arrive early or brace for a wait that locals consider entirely worth it.

Café de Tacuba has served the Centro since 1912 from a tiled, chandelier-hung room that feels like a museum you can eat in. It keeps the longest Sunday hours on this list, 8am to 11:30pm, and welcomes walk-ins all weekend. Order the tamales, the enchiladas, and a cup of the house hot chocolate whisked the old way. It is more living history than cutting-edge cooking, which is exactly the point on a Sunday in the old city. Bring family; the long tables and mariachi sets are built for a crowd.

La Docena is Roma's raw bar and wood grill, a loud, all-day room that shucks oysters and chars seafood until midnight, Sundays included. The Sunday window is the widest of any pick here, noon to midnight, which makes it the rare Mexico City room for a genuinely late Sunday dinner. Order a dozen oysters, the crudo, and whatever comes off the parrilla. The bar takes walk-ins when the dining room is full, so it doubles as a reliable late option when the comida rooms have closed for the night.

Limosneros cooks a contemporary Mexican menu from a stone-walled room near the cathedral, the polished modern counterpoint to the Centro's old guard. Sunday service runs 1pm to 6pm, so this is firmly a lunch. Order the escamoles when they are in season, the kitchen's plays on classic antojitos, and a mezcal flight to match. It is the Centro pick for a diner who wants the neighbourhood's history with a more refined, design-led room and plating. Reserve, because the short Sunday window fills with a lunch-only crowd.