Eat Like A Local Mexico City Grows Staff, Adds New Tour

Mexico City native and founder of Eat Like a Local Mexico City, Rocio Vazquez Landeta is committed to supporting the community. Touting itself as the only Mexican-founded food tour agency that actively promotes economic growth and creates opportunities for families within the traditional markets, the food tour agency paves the way for women to make a difference in their local communities and in the hospitality sector. Woman-owned and women-staffed Eat Like a Local Mexico City is now a six-person company. The food tour company also launched a new food journey that takes travelers throughout the city’s Condesa neighborhood.

The “Flower Market Brunch and Mezcal Tasting” is a three-and-a-half hour walking tour. Travelers can roam the streets of Condesa starting at noon, tasting street food and ride the subway to visit the flower market. The brunch tour includes tacos such as mixiote, basket tacos, carnitas, seasonal fruit and fried corn. Travelers will visit a 100-year-old pulquería to taste pulque, made with fermented agave sap. The tour ends in Condesa with a mezcal tasting, sipping three mezcals or one cocktail, learning everything there is to know about this spirit. The tour is offered Monday through Sunday, and accommodates gluten-free and vegetarian diets.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Landeta helps travelers explore and connect with the city’s food scene, markets, restaurants and people. The food journeys showcase top restaurants along with secret food stalls and street food that offer authentic Mexican cuisine. Gradually increasing sales enabled Landeta to create social programs at La Merced Market to empower children through English lessons and monthly educational activities. The children also host the tours during the weekends allowing them to have contact with other cultures and ideas. Once the company started growing, Landeta decided to build a women-only team. 

Eat Like a Local Mexico City

Landeta attended a training by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council and after that, she completely transformed the company to comply with the international sustainability standards. “I strongly believe that the only way the travel industry (or any industry) will survive is through a sustainable approach. This means traveling without damaging the local culture, environment, social life and resources of the country you are visiting,” she said in a press statement.

Eat Like a Local Mexico City focuses on reducing single-use plastics and offsetting carbon footprint through a reforestation program in the city. The company also offers free tours for senior Mexican citizens, English lessons for stall owners at the markets, donations to improve the markets, a zero-hunger program where whoever approaches the tour gets as much food as they want and a foodie cultural exchange program where children from the markets learn about other cultures through food.

The company is solo traveler friendly. Every tour runs even if there is only one guest, no reschedules, no waiting lists. The team is learning ASL and people with disabilities can enjoy private tours with no extra cost.

For more details, visit www.eatlikealocal.com.mx.

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