Mexico City Shopping

In here you can find lot of crafts. It's near "Balderas" Metro station.
The market is big enough to find what you are looking for.

What to buy: Handcrafts, Rebozos, Sombreros, Chal, pottery, silvery jewerly (if you have time and going to Taxco - there you can find it cheper), traditional toys.

What to pay: Depend what you want if you just want some suvenierse from US4 to maybe US10
If you are looking for something more like US 10 - US 30

Well... First of all, I work here, as a interior designer at the Liverpool store, (that is like Dillars, Corte Ingles, and that kind of stores)...

What we have here is a HUGE shopping mall, where you can find about everything (exept for food markets)...

4 floors full of trendy (and not so trendy) shops, restaurants, cinemas, recreation places and even a practice golf field....

If you have time (and money) go and visit... It?s EVERY woman shopping dream (well... I know some man that will love it too!!!)

The Historic Centre has fine colonial architecture, including Art Nouveau/Art Deco historic buildings. The ground floor of these buildings house many shops, restaurants and other businesses, which makes for a very lively entertainment/business district. Many of the side streets/alleyways have been blocked off to traffic to create lively pedestrian areas, where there are many cafes and shops.

What to buy: You can find just about anything you might need here in the Historic Centre.

This large food market spredas over 3 large halls. People here are selling nearly everything that grows in Mexico and is eatable. Go there, if you just want some frsh fruits or want to prepaire meals or just to get an idea how many differnt chiles acctually exist.

What to buy: Ingredientes that are hard to find outside Mexico and you need for Mexican specialitys with which you want to impress your friends back at home.

Here you cn find all kinds of souvenirs from all over Mexico. There are more smaller shops, each one offering differnet kind of goods. You can choose between sombreros, instruments, pottery, masks, blankets, many differnt sculptures, silver products...
Place is worth to visit even if you don't need to buy anything. It's very colourful and you see something tipical from everywhere not actually being there.

I was told it is the largest shopping centre in Latin America (oh, well, I was told the same thing about Sambil in Caracas and they say the same about Barra Shopping in Rio. I think Santa Fé is not bigger than Barra shopping!)
Anyway, it got department stores, boutiques, restaurants, play areas for children and ten cinemas!
I was in Polanco, so I thought it was quite far and you have to take a cab, there is no metro nearby.

What to buy: You can buy anything there.

What to pay: I guess you have to be prepared.
The department stores can have higher prices, but if you look around you can find reasonable prices.

It's a complex of about 300 stores. There are products from all over Mexico at very good prices.

What to buy: Crafts, clothes and etc.

What to pay: Well, it depends... Prices do not vary much there, but you can always bargain!
I spent 230,000 Mexican Pesos and I got some good crafts. Clothes however can be more expensive. Just a little cheaper than in La Zona Rosa (but, in La Zona Rosa they are prettier, in my opinion).

There is nice mercado (market) with lots of great produce stands near the Salto del Agua metro station. It is quite clean.

Fruits and vegetables grown in Mexico are cheap and delicious. For example oranges and tangerines sell for about 3 pesos (about .30 USD) per kilo.

Wherever you go in Mexico City you can find find a stand selling fresh squeezed orange juice for about the same price as a bottle of water.

There is a huge market for food and a multiude of other items at the Merced metro station. This is a must see from the cultural point of view and the sheer size. However, it is crowded and dirty.