CICATRIZ

Nine years into its run on Calle Dinamarca in Colonia Juárez, CICATRIZ has long since graduated from discovery to institution. When it opened, it was among Mexico City’s first natural wine bars — a distinction that still draws the city’s most discerning drinkers — but it has never allowed itself to be defined by a single identity. The team describes it as a multi-use space, a restaurant, bar, and café designed to host a diverse clientele for whatever they need, and the room delivers on that promise with ease. 

The space operates as an all-day proposition, shifting its mood with the hours. Morning brings an egg and ham sandwich on a homemade biscuit and a torta de huevos with quintonil. Midday yields a fried chicken sandwich worth planning your afternoon around, and a rotating seasonal menu that keeps regulars coming back to see what’s changed. By evening, the natural wine list, featuring bottles from producers like Gabrio Bini, takes center stage alongside mezcal flights and the kind of leisurely conversation that only good wine and a good room can produce. The key lime pie has taken on something of a legendary status among those in the know.

 Open Monday through Sunday, 9 am to midnight, and as the team puts it: “For first dates and long, wine-filled dinners, sitting at the bar solo reading, brunch with friends, mezcal flights, a respite from the wild Mexico City weather, bring your crush, mom, dog, cat, snake, whomever!”