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Where do you find the best pan de muerto in Mexico City this season? My Pan de Muerto 2026 series, from a hand-painted Talavera bread with mezcal to a black loaf filled with the Nonna's limoncello cream, every one tasted and filmed on my own visit.
Updated October 18, 2026 · By Jane Novikova
None of these is the classic sugar-dusted loaf. Every bakery here reinvented it: painted, dyed with fruit, coated in black, or filled with cream.
For the Talavera with mezcal
A small laminated-dough bakery near the centre of Coyoacán, known for its croissants. Its 2026 collection runs to four breads at 65 to 90 pesos each, led by the Talavera: cobalt blue painted by hand, piece by piece, flavoured with vanilla, orange blossom and mezcal. There is also a pink Pitahaya-Tuna coloured only with fruit, a guava with diplomat cream and a traditional version.
Order the Talavera a day ahead. Gift boxes are 20 to 30 pesos extra.
For the viral pink
Chef Ricardo González Foyo's small Roma Norte bakery, which grew out of a catering service. The guava pan de muerto went viral because it is pink on the outside and pink inside too, at around 55 to 60 pesos a piece, next to a traditional one with cempasúchil and a cardamom version.
In October Cardín runs pan de muerto workshops, Thursday to Sunday at 10:00 and 15:00, 900 pesos a person, booked on WhatsApp. Only a couple of tables, so plan on takeaway.
For the black pumpkin
A from-scratch bakery in Garden Santa Fe whose filled pan de muerto comes coated in black: pumpkin and lemon, generously filled with cream, plus cajeta and chocolate-coated hazelnut. It arrives in a gift box, which is the reason it photographs the way it does.
Seasonal breads are rarely on the delivery apps. Message them on WhatsApp to pre-order.
For the Sicilian
The bakery of María Ciento38, a Sicilian restaurant in a nineteenth-century casona in Santa María la Ribera. Every recipe comes from the Nonna, Antonietta Di Pasquale, who moved from Sicily in 1979. This season brings an original, a black one made with totomoxtle ash and a beetroot dough with guava, filled with a cream made with her limoncello.
The oven is lit at two in the morning and the doors open at seven. Message them to order, since the seasonal breads are rarely on the apps.
How I picked
This is my Pan de Muerto 2026 series: every bakery here is one I visited, tasted and filmed this October. I went looking for the breads that do something new with the tradition, so you will not find the classic sugar-dusted loaf here, only the versions worth crossing the city for.
The series is still running. New episodes join this guide as they are published.
Questions
For something you will not find anywhere else, Croque Voyage in Coyoacán and its hand-painted Talavera with vanilla, orange blossom and mezcal. For the one everyone is posting, Cardín's pink guava in Roma Norte. For a filled one, Pan Ajeno's black pumpkin or El Pan de María's limoncello cream.
On this list, from about 55 to 60 pesos a piece at Cardín to 65 to 90 pesos at Croque Voyage. Gift boxes cost extra. Prices were current when I filmed in October 2026.
Pan Ajeno fills its black-coated breads with cream in pumpkin, lemon, cajeta and hazelnut. El Pan de María fills its breads with a cream made with the Nonna's limoncello. Croque Voyage has a guava with diplomat cream.
Pan de muerto is baked for Día de Muertos on the first and second of November, and bakeries sell it through October into early November. The unusual versions on this list are seasonal, so they disappear once the season ends.
Pan Ajeno and El Pan de María both take orders by message and deliver, but their seasonal breads are rarely listed on the delivery apps. Croque Voyage asks for the Talavera to be ordered a day ahead.
Yes. Cardín Pastelería in Roma Norte runs pan de muerto workshops in October, Thursday to Sunday at 10:00 and 15:00, for 900 pesos a person. Book on WhatsApp.
Pan Ajeno's, which comes in a gift box, and Croque Voyage's Talavera, hand painted and sold with optional gift boxes. Both look as good as they taste, which matters for a gift.
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