While it may not be possible to travel abroad these days, we offer an alternative solution: join MOFAD and internationally acclaimed global food tour company Culinary Backstreets for an online guided tour of Mexico City, bite by bite.

Join Francisco de Santiago (“Paco”), Culinary Backstreets’s lead Mexico City guide, for a virtual guided tour of some of this multilayered city’s most intriguing neighborhoods and their classic food shops and producers. As Paco walks us through some of his favorite places, we’ll virtually meet some of the artisans upholding classic Mexican traditions and learn about the fascinating history of Mexico City’s neighborhood culinary culture and how it’s faring during these difficult times.

We are no longer selling “Taste of Mexico City” boxes with tickets, but you can still order them directly from Culinary Backstreets HERE.

 *Please note this event is from 7-8pm EST and will be held over zoom.

PACO DE SANTIAGO

Francisco de Santiago (“Paco”) is a Mexico City native who has a deep passion for his country’s cuisine. He is also sort of Renaissance man — a former champion chess player, bullfighter and more recently, a professional gastro-guide. But these days, Paco focuses on the antojitos, or little culinary cravings, of his hometown, which are a hallmark of a culinary tour of the city with him.

CULINARY BACKSTREETS

Culinary Backstreets covers the neighborhood food scene and offers small group food tours in some fourteen cities around the world. Looking beyond what’s on the plate, Culinary Backstreets explores the deeper issues at play in the places it works in and how they shape those cities’ culinary culture.