Category: Shopping

Stalwart mall with 200+ shops & embedded tiles featuring Latin American entertainers’ handprints.

Antara, formerly branded Antara Polanco, is an upscale open-air shopping center in the Nuevo Polanco district of Mexico City, spread across three levels near the Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood. The complex is home to more than 100 stores, including global luxury boutiques, plus a Cinemex multiplex and a Palacio de Hierro department store, along with numerous restaurants and bars fronting its open-air plaza.

Antara is open Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 8 PM and Saturday through Sunday from 10 AM to 9 PM. Most visitors spend 1 to 2 hours shopping and dining.

Elegant shopping complex with upscale apparel, crafts & jewelry stores, plus a courtyard eatery.

Reforma 222 is a mixed-use complex on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City’s Colonia Juárez, designed by prominent Mexican architect Teodoro González de León, who also designed the National Auditorium and the Museo Rufino Tamayo. Construction began in 2004 and the complex opened in November 2007, its three towers ranking among the tallest buildings in the city.

At street level, a glass-covered shopping center spans roughly 173,000 square meters and hosts more than 76 stores, including international brands like Nike, Zara, and Tommy Hilfiger. A food court offers everything from casual burgers to Italian dining, and the complex includes one of the city’s largest Smart Fit gyms with views over Reforma avenue.

Its location on Paseo de la Reforma, one of Mexico City’s main boulevards, makes it an easy stop for travelers exploring the avenue’s monuments and museums, with free WiFi throughout the retail levels.

Quaint shopping center providing a fitness center & supermarket along with a food court & cinema.

Forum Buenavista is one of Mexico City’s largest and newest shopping centers, a 37,250-square-meter mall built directly atop Buenavista train station in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood. It’s anchored by Sears, Fábricas de Francia, and Coppel department stores, alongside more than 150 shops including Zara, H&M, Nike, and a Best Buy and Soriana hypermarket.

The mall’s top floor houses an ice skating rink, bowling, and arcade games alongside a busy food court, while a 14-screen Cinépolis multiplex and more than 50 restaurants round out the entertainment options. Forum Buenavista also runs regular events, from fashion shows and live music to fitness classes and children’s activities.

It sits right next to Buenavista Metro station and the Vasconcelos Library, making it a convenient stop to combine with a walk through the Santa María la Ribera neighborhood; hours run 11 AM to 8:30 PM most days, with slightly later closing on Saturdays.

Centro Santa Fe is the largest shopping mall in Mexico, spanning more than 210,000 square meters in the Santa Fe business district on the western edge of Mexico City. The multi-level complex houses more than 400 stores, ranging from international fashion chains to electronics retailers and specialty shops.

Beyond shopping, the mall offers an extensive food court, sit-down restaurants, a movie theater, and services aimed at both shoppers and the office workers based in the surrounding Santa Fe corporate district. Its scale means it can take a while to navigate between wings.

Centro Santa Fe is generally open Sunday through Friday from 11 AM to 8 PM, with slightly later hours until 9 PM on Saturdays. Most visitors spend one to three hours here, longer if combining shopping with a meal or a movie.

Parque Delta is a large enclosed shopping mall in Mexico City’s Narvarte neighborhood, built on the site of the historic Parque Delta baseball stadium.

The original stadium opened in 1928 and later became known as Parque Seguridad Social; it hosted decades of professional baseball, including national championship games, before closing in 2000 and being redeveloped into today’s mall, which opened in 2005 and expanded in 2016.

Inside, visitors find a Liverpool department store, a Soriana supermarket, a Cinemex multiplex with VIP screens, and dozens of shops and restaurants spread across more than 180,000 square meters of floor space.

Varied shops & cafes share space with a gym & supermarket at this modern, glass-roofed mall.

This mall-within-a-mall features posh designer boutiques & a luxury, multiplex movie theater.