Mexico City · ice cream
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A trained chef using French ice-cream technique deliberately in the service of ingredients nobody expects to be frozen — camote, tuna, elote. It is the clearest case in the city of an outside method bent toward Mexico instead of Mexico being fitted to the method.
What to order
The September elote, or the tuna sorbet.
What we know
- Almost every ingredient is Mexican, down to the sugar
- A corn flavour made each September for the independence holiday, which people cross the city for
- A tuna sorbet coloured by the cactus fruit itself, and a camote flavour built on the whistle of the roving sweet-potato carts
- French technique — the founder trained in pastry in New York and in ice cream in Corsica — turned on Mexican ingredients rather than the reverse
- Vacherins, the French meringue and ice-cream cake, sold alongside the sorbets
- Status
- open
- Address
- Colima 162, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México
- Maker
- Julia Ortiz Monasterio
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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