La Cocina de San Juan

4.3
(325 votes)
2ᵃ Calle de Ernesto Pugibet 21-Local 342, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06070 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Moderate
Open now • Closes at 19:00

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Discover the Unique Flavors at La Cocina de San Juan

Located in the heart of Mexico City at 2ᵃ Calle de Ernesto Pugibet 21-Local 342, La Cocina de San Juan offers an extraordinary culinary experience that combines traditional Mexican heritage with daring exotic ingredients. Open Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, this restaurant invites adventurous food lovers to indulge in dishes rarely found elsewhere.

A Gastronomic Adventure Featuring Exotic Ingredients

The menu features a fascinating blend of native delicacies and innovative flavors, including meats like wild boar, crocodile, venison, and buffalo. Guests can also savor pre-Hispanic soups such as Sopa Azteca and Sopa de Nopal con Escamoles, and explore unique offerings like roasted duck stuffed with apples, insect platters with grasshoppers, scorpions, and ant larvae (escamoles), as well as delights like baguettes with fine cheeses and exotic meats. The presentation and carefully described ingredients emphasize the deep culinary roots and innovative spirit of Mexican cuisine.

Visitors repeatedly praise the delicious food, highlighting standout dishes such as the consommé, tacos, and especially the grasshoppers with garlic. The restaurant’s warm and attentive service adds to the overall remarkable dining atmosphere. For those who enjoy trying exotic delicacies, La Cocina de San Juan provides an unforgettable and authentic experience that is both flavorful and culturally enriching.

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Alejandra Hernandez
April 27, 2025
The delicious food, the consommé, the tacos, the salsa, everything 5 ⭐ but the attention gets 10 ⭐ everything is excellent
Loreto Cabañero Celaya
April 20, 2025
It is a very original place where you can eat different types of insects. The grasshoppers with garlic are good but there are others that don't have as much flavor. Chinicuiles and scorpions and grasshoppers, well, without much flavor, well the grasshoppers with garlic are the best and also the ants.nIt is a more expensive place than usual but it is one of the few where you can find so much variety. It cost me like 40 euros.
Weidong Zhang
March 30, 2025
Too well eaten. The waitress is very friendly!
john topoleski
March 12, 2025
Wonderful hole in wall kind of place where you can try food you might not otherwise eat. We had ant larve and flying ants as an appetizer (escamole and chicatana) and then an escamole taco and finally a scorpion taco. It took a bit to psyche myself up to eat the scorpion. I figured that I might was try and that I'd regret it if I backed out. It was fine! crunchy.
hug Jak
August 17, 2024
On weekends one of the best barbecues in Mexico City

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  • Website represents a restaurant named "La Cocina de San Juan".
  • The restaurant offers exotic and traditional dishes with unique ingredients such as jabalí (wild boar), cocodrilo (crocodile), venado (venison), búfalo (buffalo), escamoles (ant larvae), and various insects (entomophagy).
  • Dishes include baguette with fine cheeses and choice of exotic meat, pre-Hispanic soups like Sopa Azteca and Sopa de Nopal con Escamoles, roasted duck stuffed with apples, insect platter, cheese and lamb racks, and specialty items like Crepa Polaca with blueberry, and Tortitas de Ahuautle.
  • Cuisine features a mix of traditional Mexican ingredients and innovative use of native and exotic proteins.
  • Menu items are described with detailed ingredients and presentation styles, emphasizing traditional and local culinary heritage.
  • No information about opening hours, booking or ordering options, or access details is provided on the homepage content.