Lydia Carey

1 week ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Lydia Carey

If it’s not on a list, does it even exist? Best restaurants, best bars, best dog park, best neighborhood: you name it, there’s a list for it. Depending on where you look, there might be several. Lists are taking over travel like never before. I myself am guilty of jumping on Eater to see their 38 essential restaurants of London or Lisbon or checking out the Michelin guide when I get to a new city. As a travel writer, I’ve participated in creating more than one best-of list myself.

2 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Lydia Carey

Mexico is the world’s number one beer exporting country and No. 22 in overall beer consumption. But while beer has been produced here in commercial quantities since the 1800s, until 14 years ago, 100% of the hops used in Mexican beer were imported from abroad, at a price tag of more than US $34 billion a year. While the idea of a 100% Mexican beer has been dreamt of before, it’s taken a long time for it to become a reality.

3 weeks ago | hotel-scoop.com | Lydia Carey

The view from the balcony of my suite at Las Alcobas is of the Polanco skyline. Synagogues, skyscrapers, mid-century modern homes, Polanco is one of Mexico City’s high-end urban neighborhoods, developed in the 1940s and 50s when the city was expanding beyond the Centro Historico. These days there is a vintage quaintness to the California Colonial architectural style and the meandering streets of Polanquito, the neighborhood’s most charming area of parks, shops, and restaurants.

3 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Lydia Carey

Not long ago, Mexico News Daily published a look at some of the long list of cocktail bars in Mexico that made it onto the 2025 list, 50 Best Bars of North America. In fact, it was such a long list, we didn’t have the room to tell you about all of them in one article. That in itself is something amazing. Known a few decades ago as a nation that drank little else but beer and tequila, Mexico has in recent decades embraced mixology in a big way.

3 weeks ago | perceptivetravel.com | Lydia Carey

The Passion of a Neighborhood on Full Display in Itzapalapa, Mexico City Story and photos by Lydia Carey A tiny tangerine flies through the air and misses my friend Sophie's head by less than a centimeter. The thrower is Barabbas, the recently freed Jerusalem bandit.