4 Best Places to Shop in Mexico City, Mexico

Background Illustration for Shopping

Reviews Updated by

Reviewer Avatar
Andrew Collins

The areas with the highest concentrations of shops are Polanco, for upscale boutiques, luxury chains, modern furniture stores, and fine-art galleries; and the Zona Rosa, chock-full of clothing stores, adult shops, leather goods, and antiques.

La Condesa and La Roma, though better known for restaurants and cafés, are sprouting designer boutiques, primarily for a younger crowd and artsy types. Jewelers, shoe shops, vintage clothes, and hip housewares stores are squeezing in as well. Most cluster along avenidas Michoacán, Vicente Suárez, Amsterdam, and Tamaulipas, in Condesa, and Alvaro Obregón and thereabouts, in Roma.

Hundreds of shops with more modest trappings and better prices are spread along the length of Avenida Insurgentes and Avenida Juárez.

Bazar Fusion

Juárez Fodor's Choice
One of the best places in the city to go souvenir or gift shopping, Bazar Fusion specializes in Mexican-made clothing, beauty products, shoes, and goodies like mezcal and salsa. On weekends, it expands with vendors taking over the hallways selling different items, mostly based on local and organic themes (think bath products, jewelry, accessories, and cooking goods), as well as art. Spanning various aesthetics, artisan products from all across Mexico are featured; as big and diverse as the country is, Bazar Fusion does a good job at representing much of it with textiles and other artistry from across the Republic.

Artículo 123

Alameda Central

A shop, restaurant, and gallery, Artículo 123 first opened in this area otherwise dominated by electricians and hardware stores back in 2012. The food leans toward southeast Asian while the shop up front sells pretty keepsakes and gifts sourced from around Mexico, from carved stone mezcal glasses to cotton napkins and woven hats.

Cerería de Jesús

Centro Histórico
It's easy to miss this century-old candle shop in the thrum of pedestrian traffic along the eastern stretch of Venustiano Carranza Street, but step inside and you'll find marvelous creations in technicolor wax, from graceful taper candles in every shade of white, bone, and cream to elaborate towers of flowers dyed jade, ocher, and violet.

Recommended Fodor's Video

Mineralia

Coyoacán

Pick up an actual piece of Mexico at this colorful gem shop that specializes in both rough and polished minerals and stones from all around the country, including obsidian, jasper, lapis lazuli, rose quartz, amethyst, and more. Fossils and sculptures are also sold here, and prices are quite reasonable.