Coyoacán Food Tour

The anchor stop on any Coyoacan food route is Churreria El Moro, a Mexico City institution whose history predates the neighborhood tour built around it: Francisco Iriarte arrived from Spain in 1933 carrying his own churro recipe -- dusted with sugar and cinnamon, always served alongside hot chocolate -- and named the resulting business "El Moro" as a tribute to a churro vendor from his hometown. The original shop opened in 1935 on what was then Avenida San Juan de Letran (today Eje Central) in the historic center, and demand grew enough that after Francisco's death in 1940 his brothers Jose, Santiago, and Ignacio came from Spain to keep the recipe and the business going; El Moro has since opened additional locations, including one in Coyoacan itself. Coyoacan's own food identity runs alongside that history -- the neighborhood's markets, including the long-running Mercado Churubusco, have operated as community gathering points for over six decades -- giving a walking route through the area a genuine mix of stops: century-old churro tradition, market-stall tostadas, and neighborhood cafes and neverias built into a district that has functioned as one of Mexico City's food centers well before "food tour" became the framing for visiting it.