Burke + Olson

Vacation 2016

Overview

Mexico City for honeymoon
Colorado for Spring Break
New York for Katie and Nick's Wedding
North Carolina beach week
Raleigh for Thanksgiving
"Home" for the Holidays
Fun weekend trips through-out

Philosophy

By choosing an easy to get to, affordable and high-quality vacation, we can plan and stay in Mexico City with little stress*. Without blowing a budget or vacation time on the honeymoon, we can plan a spring break out of town. We mix up family time by incorporating it with a beach week, wedding and Christmas. By taking a few meaningful long weekends, we get to explore the Southeast and take in the regional culture.

*I can book all of this over the weekend.

Honeymoon: Mexico City

Culture, Art and Food

Why?

One of a kind architecture and design

Great food and wine

Great-grandmother took here honeymoon here

Historical interest

Food Options

Mexico City can evoke several of the world’s top food cities at once. The cultural mashup of Istanbul’s markets, the chaotic crush of Bangkok’s street vendors, the elegance and tradition of Paris’s bistros: They’re all here in this colossal city of 19 million, where the array of gastronomic treasures makes for difficult decisions. Young chef Enrique Olvera may have begun to cause noise globally with his restaurant Pujol (think New World Noma), but locals are just as likely to point you to hidden faves like the guys serving seafood cocktails from the back of a minivan at the corner of Virreyes and Prado Sur. It would take a lifetime to devour it all. But if, like most of us, you’ve only got a few days, here are some of the best places to start.–Nils Bernstein

Sud777

The Palm Santa Fe

Dozens of Wine Spectator Award Winning Restaurants

Pujol

If you fancy yourself a globetrotting gourmand, lunch or dinner at Chef Enrique Olvera's Pujol is obligatory. Pujol has held a top spot on Restaurant Magazine's World's 50 Best Restaurants list for the past three years; it's currently at spot 16, up from spot 17 the year before.

Day Trips

Prismas Basálticos de Hidalgo

While Mexico City dwellers will never get tired of saying how much there is to do in the city and how hard it is to get bored here, we’ll also be happy to admit that, every once in a while, it’s nice to get out and explore surrounding cities and towns. Short day trips or weekend getaways are always great for clearing your head, exploring new cultural attractions, and of course, trying as much new food as possible.

Huichapan

Tepotzotlán

Sights

Architecture

"If you’re an architecture enthusiast, this feeling is multiplied twofold. Every building, no matter how undistinguished its lineage, tries to show itself off. The cityscape is a wonderland of blazing colors, mismatched windows, projecting planes, bold facade graphics, wacky patterning, stray ornaments and unexpected textures."