Apparently is the residential area for local upper-middle class (the mexican bourgeoisie...), but nothing to see for tourists... restaurants around Av. Emilio Castelar are expensive for what they offer (and all try to look French, looks you can charge more like this in Mexico...). It is clean and secured (by tens of bodyguards all over the place, watching the streets... More

It's ok if that's what you are into: nice expensive restaurants and shops. Don't go in a car. Traffic and parking are nightmarish. More

I was expecting something fabulous and clean like Beverly Hills. Um, yyyyeah, I mean, I did see that with the shops and stuff. The streets were clean, there was filthy rich money there w/ Porsche dealerships and sushi shops. Amazing furniture stores. Liked mall, Antara Polanco. HOWEVER, the whole neighborhood is littered with eye-soring telephone poles and wires and cables... More

Good restaurants, nice and safe neighborhood to wander around More

I grew up in Polanco in the 60's and 70's. It was a nice and quiet residential area, of individual houses, then. Then the developers came and filled it with concrete and glass blocks of flats and office blocks. Why would you go to Mexico City to see this, when you could go to so many other places? Don't bother. More

Safe, clean and affluent. Some nice but pricey restaurants. More

Top Mexico City restaurants are located here or in la Condesa. More

Here you will find some extraordinary shops and very nice restaurants. I recommend Biko very much! More

For tourists it could be interesting to visit to realize that a part of Mexico looks just like Europe (not a cliché-poor LatAm country) and compare and contrast with villages of Chiapas for example - 2 different planets. For residents, I like Polanco better than the Lomas because: - you walk everywhere - it is warmer than in the houses... More