How to Have a Perfect Day in Mexico City

In the daytime the narrow, pot-holed streets around Bosforo, a mezcal bar in the city’s Centro neighborhood, hum with activity. Noise is constant, foot and car traffic unruly, and the border between them ill-defined. Shops on the ground floors of old, crooked buildings are crammed next to each other, mostly selling blenders, washing machine parts, plumbing supplies or, in a couple of cases, an extraordinary range of light bulbs.