Hugo — Restaurant in Mexico City

This is a solid wine bar/restaurant but the experience could be better and a bit on the pricey side.

Wide selection of bottles- most above 50USD and closer to 100, so expect to pay $$.

It’s a busy place so without a reservation you’ll have to wait, which I did. After I gave them my twinkle smile I was worried they may ask me to leave but I was seated at one of the worst tables.

Carpaccio, olives, pan, their version of schnitzel - was good, especially the schnitzel, add a bottle of wine, the total was 3300 pesos. SO PRICEY. The food was smaller portion size except the schnitzel.

Other than being pricey. They only had one size of wine glass, which was disappointing. (I did ask for additional glass of red wine, and they poured it in which appeared to be a baby size wine glass. Their payback, I guess)

For being a wine bar, have AT LEAST two glass sizes. A white and a red. It’s a successful restaurant, so they should spend a little money on stemware. Is that asking too much…maybe.

I also asked them to decant the wine, which they (he) didn’t want to do and really didn’t quite understand why I wanted to do it.

All-in-all, I will go back bit try to sit in the bar area where there is a better vibe which I can bring down. Next to the coffee/ espresso machine wasn’t a highlight.

A few decent pics below. That’s...

It's a cute wine bar with a few dishes perfect to share! We tried the bread with salted olive oil, the olives, and tuna kimchi; of these three, the tuna was amazing! It was super fresh and flavorful. The chicken was good. And the fried pumpkin flowers were tasty, yet a little salty and greasy. They have a large selection of wine, so make sure to get a good one! We didn’t have a reservation and still got a table. I didn’t like the attitude about not having a reservation and giving people a “reserved” table for one hour. When we got there, there were plenty of empty tables, and still, they told us most were booked, and we could use one for an hour. We stayed there longer than an hour, and some tables were still empty, so that whole attitude was unnecessary. I had also checked the open table to see when I could get a reservation, and there were spots every 15 minutes for the next hour, so again, the whole “you can use this table for an hour” is beyond unnecessary—other than that, the place is cute and...

When you visit Hugo, if you're lucky, Isa Castillo, the woman who brought Hugo to the world, will greet you, seat you, and pour you your first glass of something natural and delicious. Whatever it is it'll pair well with one, two, three, four, five our more of Michael Crespo's small, serious plates. A rare find in CDMX to enjoy a snack at the bar or a full meal (when I visited last week I overheard guests telling the story of how they had eaten the whole menu on a recent trip). Don't miss the Ensenada oysters, the satisfying simplicity of a grilled piece of thick sourdough and I loved the fava bean salad. If you're still hungry and a bit more lucky, you might share a brief conversation with chef Mikey in which he'll ask you something about your taste in order to recommend the next plate. During that little talk he'll have expressed his appreciation to you and you'll realize that a lot of heart is the special ingredient that makes you instantly want to...