In Mexico, the norm is to eat three meals a day: breakfast, late lunch (the main meal) and a light supper. This is fairly standard wherever you go, but there are exceptions as Mexico has absorbed customs from elsewhere, and you'll also find some variation in meal times depending on people’s occupations. On average, we can say that breakfast is between 7 and 10 in the morning, lunch between 2 and 5 p.m., and supper after 8.
Corn, beans, rice and chili peppers are Mexico’s staple foods. They’re often combined with spices and vegetables, and meat or fish. Mexican diet varies somewhat from region to region, but no matter where you go, you’ll find tortillas, spicy salsas and beans.
Tortas, quesadillas and tacos are also everywhere. For the uninitiated, tortas are sandwiches on fresh crusty bread with meat, cheese, avocado or whatever you feel like eating. Quesadillas are tortillas folded in half with melted cheese inside, and tacos are tortillas wrapped around beans, meat, salsa, rice… there really are no limits – you can pretty much make a taco of anything.
Mexican cuisine is immensely varied and uniformly delicious. You will find excellent restaurants where you can try pozole (a chicken or pork stew with hominy), enchiladas mineras (Guanajuato’s special red enchiladas with sautéed potatoes and carrots on the side), tamales, atole (hot corn drink, sweetened or unsweetened), birria (stewed goat), enfrijoladas (like enchiladas, but with a bean sauce), and much more.
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