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Our hotel room in Mexico City was in a GREAT location.

We had restaurants, shops, street food and markets all available to us within walking distance.

Balboa Pizzeria

This pizzeria was just a few steps from our room, and we passed by it every day. Popular at lunch and dinner times, we decided to give it a try. There were several restaurants to the right of Balboa, including a Japanese place, and several restaurants to the left of Balboa as well.

We had our choices!

Inside Balboa

The Balboa had indoor and outdoor seating, and since it was a corner restaurant, it had two street front outside seating areas.

Cocktail menu

Balboa had a nice selection of cocktails to choose from. Here you see the Miles Davis cocktail at the top.

From the outdoor seating looking in

Balboa was a very social place for eating. It seemed to draw a crowd every day during the week at lunch and dinner. On weekends, it was surprisingly quiet here in our area, and the restaurants were less populated.

We figured that since we were in the embassy district, lunches and dinners during the working week were filled with office workers and business people. Then on weekends, they'd all return home to the suburbs and fill up the restaurants there.

Menu

The selections of pizza and beer were numerous. One could order draft beer, a bottle of Mexican style beer, or choose a boutique beer. Prices of beer ran from $1.25 USD for a draft to $9.50 USD for 740 ml of Amber Lager.

Pizzas were sizes Medium and Large. The pizza of the house, the Balboa, is made with blue cheese, figs, nuts, a red wine sauce made with Malbec, and topped with Mozzarella cheese.

Yummy!

Chicken Cannelloni with Chipotle Sauce

 Billy decided on a Chicken Cannelloni with a Chipotle Sauce. It had wonderful taste and came to the table piping hot!

The sauce was to die for, but Billy would have preferred his chicken to have been shredded instead of ground to give the dish more texture.

Spinach Raviolis with Estofata

I ordered the raviolis, as you can see here in the photo. When I asked what "Estofata" was, the waitress said, "Well, it's Estofata. You know, Estofata."

Unfortunately I didn't know what that was, so I just asked her if it was good and she said it was. So I decided to take a chance.

Terrific!!

The Estofata was a delicious, melt-in-your-mouth beef pot roast. There was plenty of meat here for me to share with Billy, and we were yumming and mmmm-ing all the way through our meal.