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Fonda Fina table seen from above: hands reaching for totopos from a filled molcajete, salsa verde, a tostada, aguas frescas, a cocktail and flowers on patterned cement tile

Mexican food in Roma Norte

Classic dishes from Mexico’s neighborhood fondas, made with produce from across the country and today’s techniques.

Ask for

  1. Fideo con chilaquiles MX$170
  2. Sopes de pork belly MX$225
  3. Chamorro braseado MX$385
  4. Pastel de natas MX$165

Recognition

  • Plato Redondo
  • 250 MX

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A visit to Fonda Fina

From the street to the table, in five moments.

  1. Fonda Fina’s black facade with its terrace of wooden tables and woven-seat chairs on Medellín street

    Arrive at Medellín 79

    Between Colima and Tabasco streets in Roma Norte. There are tables in the dining room and on the terrace facing the street.

  2. Fonda Fina dining room: reed walls hung with dried corn, copper lamps, wooden tables and patterned cement tile floor

    Take a seat in the dining room

    Reed-lined walls hung with dried ears of corn, copper lamps and patterned cement tile floors. Mexican and contemporary music plays.

  3. Fideo con chilaquiles from above on a wooden table: golden noodles, totopos, crema, fresh cheese, avocado and cilantro

    Order the fideo con chilaquiles

    Thin fideo noodles in chipotle with chilaquiles, cheese, crema and salsa verde, MX$170. It’s one of the dishes the house asks you to try.

    Find it on the menu
  4. A Fonda Fina server in a branded apron holding a filled molcajete with totopos and leaves

    Share at the center of the table

    Masa and nixtamal starters and mains made for building tacos or sharing, like the chamorro braseado or the half rotisserie chicken.

    See starters and specials
  5. An amber cocktail with a dried fruit slice, held up against the dining room’s glowing lamps

    Raise a Coctel Nice

    The house cocktails are made with Creyente, 400 Conejos or Ojo de Tigre mezcal, with tamarind, guava, prickly pear and chile-salt rims.

    See the cocktails

The menu

Masa and nixtamal starters, soups, stews, grilled mains, desserts and Coctel Nice cocktails. Prices in Mexican pesos (MXN).

Starters & nixtamal

To start and share: masa, tortillas and fonda-style antojitos.

  • Guacamole

    Price: MX$145
  • Quesadillas

    Price: MX$195

    Quesillo (Oaxaca cheese), squash blossom and mushrooms. Red tortilla made to order.

    2 pieces

  • Sopes de pork belly

    Price: MX$225

    Tamarind glaze, pico de gallo and beans.

    House recommendation 3 pieces

  • Tacos caramelo de res

    Price: MX$285

    Jalisco-style birria on a crisp cheese crust with refried beans and a flour tortilla. Pickled red onion, chives, lime and spicy peanut salsa.

    4 pieces

  • Toritos de chamorro

    Price: MX$285

    Tacos of güero chiles stuffed with confit carnitas. Black salsas and lime.

    3 pieces

  • Tamalitos de elote

    Price: MX$235

    Esquites of white and pozole corn. Three salsas: red pipián, mole negro and poblano salsa verde. Fresh cheese and crema.

    3 pieces

  • Fideo con chilaquiles

    Price: MX$170

    Thin fideo noodles in chipotle, with cheese, crema and salsa verde.

    House recommendation

  • Tostadas de camarón umami

    Price: MX$235

    Shrimp marinated in ginger and soy. Chipotle aioli, cherry and green tomatoes, avocado and seed salsa macha.

    3 pieces

  • Aguachile Baja Med

    Price: MX$255

    Cooked octopus, marinated shrimp, cucumber, nopal cactus and green apple. Recado negro, jícama and toasted radishes.

  • Tacos de suadero estilo Sonora

    Price: MX$285

    Cheese crust, refried beans, avocado, onion and cilantro. Morita chile salsa.

    4 pieces

  • Molotes de plátano macho

    Price: MX$220

    Plantain molotes with mole negro, queso fresco and lime chimichurri.

    3 pieces

  • Tostadas de bichos

    Price: MX$225

    Chapulines (grasshoppers) in a tomato and lime salpicón. Quesillo.

    2 pieces

  • Peneques rellenos de requesón

    Price: MX$225

    Filled with requesón (fresh curd cheese). Poblano pipián and Chiapas cheese.

    3 pieces

Fideo con chilaquiles: a nest of chipotle noodles with totopos, crema, avocado and sprouts
Fideo con chilaquiles, MX$170

Soups & broths

  • Sopa de tortilla

    Price: MX$140

    Tortilla soup with avocado, chicharrón and crema.

  • Caldo de gallina

    Price: MX$145

    Hen broth with chickpeas, rice, onion and cilantro. Breast and leg.

  • Arroz del día

    Price: MX$100

    Rice of the day with avocado, fried plantain or egg, your choice.

Vegetables

Dishes built on vegetables, nopal cactus and corn.

  • Tlacoyos de nopal

    Price: MX$215

    Tender nopales cooked in salt, pico de gallo, guacamole and refried black beans. Ancho chile and guava adobo, cream cheese.

    4 pieces

  • Ensalada al grill

    Price: MX$180

    Grilled romaine, Caesar dressing, Parmesan and crispy pork belly (or baby corn).

  • Coliflor a las brasas

    Price: MX$235

    Grilled with agave syrup and hoja santa. Cheese sauce and seed salsa macha.

  • Carpaccio de tomates

    Price: MX$190

    Beet, creamy goat cheese, sunflower seeds, dill and mint.

Fonda specials

House mains. Several are made for sharing.

  • Short rib en mole de olla

    Price: MX$390

    Creamy cauliflower purée, green beans, carrots and chayote. Mole de olla made with ancho chile and coffee.

  • Chamorro braseado

    Price: MX$385

    Braised shank with spring onions, an oregano and soy spicy sauce and recado negro. Nopal, quinoa and carrot salad. Made for building tacos.

    House recommendation

  • Medio pollo rostizado

    Price: MX$385

    Half rotisserie chicken in garlic butter with a chile crust. Creamy coditos (elbow pasta), green beans and chimichurri.

    For sharing

  • Pepito de sirloin

    Price: MX$320

    Grilled beef fillets on house bread with garlic butter. Avocado, smoked hummus, cheddar potato gratin and pickles.

  • Pulpo adobado al grill

    Price: MX$375

    Adobo-marinated grilled octopus. Sweet potato purée, Mexican-style quinoa salad and lemon vinaigrette.

  • Camarones zarandeados

    Price: MX$375

    Smoked. Chile mayonnaise, sweet-and-sour sauce and mojo.

    250 g

  • Rib eye norteño

    Price: MX$495

    Frijoles venenosos, a blistered (toreado) güero chile and crispy potatoes.

Adobo-grilled octopus with sweet potato purée, quinoa salad and roasted vegetables, seen from above
Pulpo adobado al grill, MX$375

Stews & grill

  • Arrachera Angus

    Price: MX$375

    Grilled Angus skirt steak with chile honey. Potatoes and nopales.

  • Pescado del día

    Price: MX$330

    Fish of the day: grilled, in adobo, al mojo or al ajillo (garlic).

  • Albóndigas al chipotle “como mamá”

    Price: MX$295

    Finely ground beef and pork meatballs in tomato caldillo with Chiapas cheese. Rice and beans.

  • Milanesa de pollo

    Price: MX$330

    Chicken in a bread and corn crust. Potato salad and crema.

  • Enchiladas de pollo ahumado

    Price: MX$320

    Smoked chicken with a squash and caramelized onion guisado. Mole negro, crema and cheese.

Desserts

  • Flan de queso

    Price: MX$150

    Cheese flan with caramel and whipped cream.

  • Pastel de natas

    Price: MX$165

    Guava paste, raspberry jam and red berries.

    House recommendation

  • Tarta de chocolate y mole

    Price: MX$165

    Mezcal strawberries, whipped cream, rompope (Mexican eggnog) ice cream and piloncillo.

  • Pan de elote borrachito

    Price: MX$165

    Frosted with corn, with mezcal strawberries and piloncillo syrup.

  • Churros escarchados con cardamomo

    Price: MX$165

    Cardamom-sugared churros with cinnamon sugar, chocolate sorbet and lime condensed milk.

    3 pieces

Coctel Nice cocktails

House cocktails with mezcal, Mexican liqueurs and Mexican ingredients. All 230 ml.

  • Periquito Nice

    Price: MX$180

    Mandarin juice with Ancho Reyes liqueur, Creyente mezcal, house syrup, lime and grapefruit juice. Tajín rim.

  • La Escobeta

    Price: MX$185

    Tamarind extract, lime and orange juice, shaken with Creyente mezcal and Ancho Reyes, topped with tamarind soda. Mixed chile rim.

  • Choncos Nice

    Price: MX$185

    Muddled prickly pear (tuna), green grape and parsley, with prickly pear concentrate, Meyer lemon bitters, house syrup, 400 Conejos mezcal and lime juice. Tajín rim.

  • Cantario Loco

    Price: MX$185

    Guava muddled with mint and tamarind extract, orange juice, house syrup, 400 Conejos mezcal and a grapefruit soda top.

  • El Pepino

    Price: MX$180

    Cucumber and mint muddled with Creyente mezcal and white wine, topped with ginger ale. Tajín rim.

  • El Barril

    Price: MX$185

    Muddled pineapple, ginger and spearmint, shaken with Creyente mezcal and honey pineapple.

  • Lobo Negro

    Price: MX$190

    Blackberries, spearmint and ginger muddled with Ojo de Tigre mezcal, agave syrup, citrus and Ancho Reyes. Tajín and grapefruit rim.

  • La Güera

    Price: MX$185

    Mango and fresh strawberry granita, reposado tequila, chamoy with orange. Tajín rim.

  • La Sandía

    Price: MX$190

    Muddled watermelon, strawberry and mint, shaken with Beefeater gin, orange and cranberry juice, house syrup and lemon.

  • El Cardenal

    Price: MX$185

    Pomegranate muddled with raspberry and mint, cranberry juice, Meyer lemon bitters, Creyente mezcal, orange juice and pomegranate sorbet. Chile powder rim.

A cocktail in a glass with a chile-salt rim, next to a Fonda Fina coaster
From the Fonda Fina bar

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Every week at Fonda Fina

Tacos topped with guacamole and cilantro on a speckled ceramic plate, from one of the Taco Tiusdey editions

Tuesday

Taco Tiusdey

Tuesdays at Fonda Fina.

A special selection of house tacos and tostadas.

Two fish tostadas with cucumber and red onion next to a lime and a Fonda Fina card, from one of the Domingo de Subidón editions

Sunday

Domingo de Subidón

Sundays at Fonda Fina.

Pa’ comerPa’ la sed

Special dishes to eat and drinks to quench your thirst, for Sunday.

The menu changes from week to week. Ask for the current one when you book.

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Juan Cabrera Barrón in a white chef’s jacket and a blue apron embroidered with the Fonda Fina logo, standing in the dining room

Juan Cabrera Barrón

Executive chef and partner at Fonda Fina

He studied Gastronomy at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and pastry at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. He worked at Pujol, TEO and ENO, part of Grupo Enrique Olvera, and today leads the Fonda Fina kitchen as executive chef and partner.

His background
The Business First cabin: airplane windows, red seats and a metal trolley, with someone dancing by the window

Business First

A different kind of wait.

A premium waiting lounge at Fonda Fina, made for enjoying the moment before you head to your table.

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Visit us

Medellín 79

Roma Norte, Mexico City, CP 06700

Between Colima and Tabasco streets, on a street parallel to Avenida Insurgentes. Near Sevilla Metro station and the Álvaro Obregón Metrobús stop.

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Opening hours

Opening hours
Monday to Wednesday 1 pm to 10 pm
Thursday to Saturday 1 pm to 11 pm
Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm

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Price
MXN 310 to 500 per person
Payment
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