Raquel Del Castillo

Food Writer in Mexico City
About Raquel

Raquel Del Castillo has been a food writer since 2000, She was editor in chief of Menú food issue from El Universal Newspaper. Her work has been at Eater, OpenTable, 7 Caníbales, Gourmet de México, Forbes online, Munchies (Vice Mexico), chilango.com, and the national newspaper Milenio. She studied culinary arts and Communication at university. Now she mixes this knowledge of cooking and writing in her everyday work. She loves teaching recipes and leading tours to the local markets of Mexico City. She thinks that the best way to know the flavors of Mexico is to walk through these public places and go to the restaurants to see how chefs prepare the ingredients for the numerous traditional Mexican recipes, some of them published in her three recipe books.

Feedback for Raquel

Rachel was excellent. Very informed and flexible in adjusting the schedule since some of us had taken the tour before.

Ernst

Raquel loves the culture, the history and especially the art, and was eager to share all of it. We especially enjoyed going to some out of the way places that we never would have discovered on our own or through tour books.

Fraser

We loved our Mexico City Food Tour! It was lively, fun and most of all delicious. Our tour guide Raquel is a food journalist and her insight was invaluable. We enjoyed a variety of flavors and learned a great deal about each dish, its ingredients and its preparation. Raquel shared interesting information about Mexico City neighborhoods and culture - and recipes! Definitely recommend this tour. (And come hungry!)

Lori
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