Ostería 8 — Restaurant in Mexico City

We are from California, visiting Mexico City, and just wanted something a little different from Mexican food. This place is 100% recommended for delicious pizza and pasta!

We ordered the hummus for an appetizer. Kinda different to be offered at an Italian restaurant, but it was delicious! Highly recommend!

We ordered a couple pizzas and one of the pasta dishes. Everything was so tasty and fresh. The pasta sauce was excellent. The pizzas were soooo good! One pizza could probably feed 2 people.

Excellent service and drinks completed the experience. All I can say is go and check it out. You'll be...

We had the arugula salad (pictured) and the pasta of the day. The salad was amazing, very fresh but also crunchy with what I’m assuming was honey-roasted pecans. Lovely. The pasta was okay: I thought it was a bit overcooked and the sauce was also just okay.

A weird thing though: a homeless person approached my friend and punched him in the arm and the staff just stood there and looked at what was happening.

Besides that it’s a good casual dinner spot in the...

This tiny place sits 16 people! Its small and intimate and service is top notch!

Ricardo is SO hospitable! The owner is lucky to have him on staff! Thank you Ricardo for all that information on the Museo de Arqueologia y los otras cosas! Also for being so attentive to our needs the entire time we ate! Excellent service!

Apparently it is owned by a New Yorker

In any case, the pizza / pasta and mozzarella salad were fresh and...