A fourteen-room hotel in a 1920s townhouse on a quiet block of Calle Orizaba. We kept the original tile floors, the courtyard, the iron balconies, and the way light moves through the place in the late afternoon. The kitchen opens at seven for café de olla. The bar opens when the sun starts to set. Reserve a room See the rooms
Every room is shaped by the bones of the original house — a different layout, a different proportion of window to wall, a different view onto the courtyard or the street. We don't believe in cookie-cutter chains. We don't believe in two rooms being interchangeable, either.
The corner suite with the small wrought-iron balcony, the view of Parque España, and the morning light that fills the room until ten. The bed is a custom California king, the bathroom has an original 1920s claw-foot tub, and the breakfast tray comes up at any hour you'd like.
The townhouse at Orizaba 184 was built in 1923 by an architect named Salvador Quesada, who lived there until 1958. For the next sixty years it passed through four owners, was divided into apartments, became a printer's shop on the ground floor, and finally fell empty in 2013.
We bought it in late 2015 from the family of the last printer. The work took eighteen months — preserving every original tile floor we could (which was most of them), re-pouring the courtyard, rebuilding the iron balconies from the same workshop in Coyoacán that made the originals, and trying very hard not to add very much. The point was to wake the house up, not to refinish it.
Casa Mirador opened in October 2017 with twelve rooms. Two more came in 2020 when we restored the attic. We don't plan to add any others.
No conference rooms, no business center, no gym you'll never use. What we have instead: a kitchen, a courtyard, a rooftop, a record collection, and a few corners of the house that turn out to be the best ones to read in.
The rooftop bar, open to guests and a small number of locals from sunset. Mezcal program by Romina Solís. Twelve seats, never a reservation. The view runs to the Castillo de Chapultepec on a clear day.
The interior courtyard, around which the house was built. Breakfast served here from seven; quiet during the day; small jazz trios on Wednesday nights when the weather allows.
The kitchen, by chef Mariana Lemus — formerly of Pujol. Breakfast and dinner only. The dinner menu changes weekly and runs to about eight dishes. Open to non-guests with a reservation.
A small library on the second floor — about six hundred books in Spanish, English, and French. Coffee table books on Mexican architecture, design, and the muralists, plus a borrowable fiction collection.
The sitting room off the courtyard — a fireplace, three sofas, and a 1973 turntable with a vinyl collection of about four hundred records, all available to borrow back to your room.
Our personally maintained guide to Mexico City — restaurants, galleries, mezcalerías, secondhand bookshops, and the markets. Updated every six weeks. Available at the front desk and in every room.
Roma Norte is the kind of neighborhood best discovered slowly, on foot, in no particular order. These are the places you'll likely end up at — most are within fifteen minutes from the front door.
A masterclass in how to restore a Mexico City townhouse without making it sterile — Casa Mirador feels older than it is, in the very best way.
If you are spending more than two nights in CDMX and want to stay somewhere that feels less like a hotel and more like an apartment that comes with breakfast, this is the place.
The kind of small hotel that one returns to for the third visit and starts to feel slightly possessive of. We were not the first to feel this way and won't be the last.
Booking is straightforward — direct on this site, by phone, or by email. No third-party platforms, no booking fees, no inflated rates that someone else's algorithm picked. The first night requires a deposit. Cancellation is free up to seven days ahead.