Club Sorbet

What Club Sorbet is

Club Sorbet is an open-air wine and ice cream bar in Condesa, Mexico City, and it is genuinely hard to find on purpose. The address, Avenida Michoacán 81, belongs to Sep’s, the long-standing French restaurant on the street. You walk in through the Sep’s parking lot, past the parked cars, and the back of the lot opens into a garden with an ironwork bar module in the middle, tables and benches around it, and plants and flowers filling the walls. There is no sign on Michoacán.

The menu has two halves that most places keep apart. One is artisanal sorbet and ice cream made in small batches, with flavours that rotate rather than sit on a fixed list: the card names none of them and tells you to ask the waiter what is in that day. The other is natural wine, sold by the bottle, from Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Uruguay. Around them sit specialty coffee, tea, matcha and chai, tinned plates to share, snacks and, since 2025, a breakfast menu that runs until 13:00. Local coverage calls it the first wine and ice cream bar in the neighbourhood.

When I filmed in June the flavour list was turning over roughly every three weeks and a DJ was playing in the garden through the afternoon. The sorbet is the part worth planning around: it tastes of the fruit rather than of sugar, and the flavour you liked in one month may simply not exist in the next.

Who is behind it

Club Sorbet was started by four Mexican friends, named in local press as Emanuel, Rebeca, Pablo and Tony. None of them came out of the restaurant industry. The concept came back with them from a trip to Paris, and the garden they built references the Jardin des Tuileries, which explains the gravel-and-greenery feel and the choice to give the space no frontage at all. The first wave of press coverage ran in January and February 2025.

Press

• The Happening, January 2025: covered Club Sorbet as a new Condesa hotspot where ice cream and wine meet.
• Food and Pleasure, January 2025: profiled the garden hidden in the parking lot and named the founders.
• Quién, February 2025: described it as a Parisian corner of natural wines and sorbets in Condesa.
• Local.mx: covered the pairing concept and the golden-hour timing the owners built the place around.

Club Sorbet holds no guide listing or award.

How the menu works

You order at the bar in the centre of the garden and carry your own glass and cup back to a table. Nothing is table service, and nothing is fixed for long.

• Sorbet and ice cream: one scoop 90 MXN, two scoops 130, soft serve 70 with coloured sprinkles on request, a half litre 180 and a litre 290 to take away. Flavours rotate on a short cycle. Reported flavours have included marzipan, dark chocolate, vanilla with olive oil, strawberry and basil, pear, and sorbets of mandarin and passion fruit.
• Natural wine: by the bottle, from Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Uruguay, across rosé, orange and red, with a cider and a vermouth on the same card and Chandon in 187 ml splits at 280.
• Plates to share: mussels in escabeche 370, smoked trout pâté with sourdough and pickles 210, zamburiña scallops 370, smoked sardinillas on sourdough with ricotta 350.
• Coffee and tea: espresso 45, americano 50, flat white 65, affogato 110, masala chai and matcha latte 75, chamomile and lavender tea 70.
• Breakfast, served until 13:00 and added in 2025: frozen bowls of high-protein yoghurt with berries, granola and pollen 150 or açaí with banana and coconut 155, the Club Croissant with dijonnaise, ham, cheese and bacon 230, the Petit-Déj board of bread, butter, jam, cherry tomatoes, pistachios, apple and brie 130, a salmon bagel 250, a BLTA sandwich 230, a chilorio burrito with egg 140, torrijas stuffed with ice cream 120, a crustless vegetable quiche 140, a tomato toast 120, an açaí cup 140, a gluten-free ham and cheese spiral 120, and roasted fruit with agave and Greek yoghurt 105.
• Bakery: croissant 50, with butter and jam 120, chocolatín 55, almond chocolatín 65, guava cruffin, pistachio roll and cinnamon roll 60 each, and a cinnamon roll with ice cream 140.
• Snacks: stuffed olives, natural pistachios and plain chips, 60 each.
• For dogs: a small ice cream made for them.

The pairing is the point of the place. A glass of orange wine next to a scoop of fruit sorbet is the combination the bar was built around, and the staff will tell you which flavour is working with which bottle that week.

What it costs

The prices below are the ones printed on Club Sorbet’s own cards, read at the bar on my visit, rather than figures quoted in listings. They are in Mexican pesos, and they move.

Item	Price
One scoop of sorbet or ice cream	90 MXN, about 5 USD
Two scoops	130 MXN
Soft serve	70 MXN
Half litre to take away	180 MXN
Litre to take away	290 MXN, about 16 USD
Cinnamon or pistachio roll with ice cream	140 MXN
Profiterole, malt or affogato	110 to 160 MXN
Breakfast plates	105 to 250 MXN
Bakery	50 to 140 MXN
Plates to share, tinned and cured	210 to 370 MXN
Snacks, olives, pistachios or chips	60 MXN each
Coffee	Espresso 45, americano 50, flat white 65, affogato 110
Agua Félix, still, sparkling or flavoured	45, 55 and 65 MXN
Natural wine by the bottle	970 to 3,980 MXN
Chandon, 187 ml split	280 MXN

The one gap is the glass. The wine card prices bottles, from a Spanish garnacha at 970 MXN through most 750 ml bottles at 1,200 to 1,885 and up to a 1.5 litre skin contact at 3,980, and it prints no by-the-glass column, so ask at the bar what is open. A scoop and a coffee is well under 200 MXN. A scoop and a shared bottle is what puts Club Sorbet alongside the natural wine bars nearby rather than a neighbourhood ice cream counter.

How to visit

There are no reservations. You walk in, order at the bar and find a seat. A few things follow from that:

• The garden is entirely outdoors and there is no indoor room to retreat to, so rain ends the afternoon.
• Weekend afternoons are the busiest, particularly when a DJ is playing, and the shaded tables go first.
• Mornings are the quiet stretch, which is when the coffee and breakfast menu make sense. Breakfast stops at 13:00, which the card states plainly.
• There is no parking of its own, despite the entrance, so do not plan on leaving a car there.

Getting there

• Address: Avenida Michoacán 81, Colonia Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Mexico City.
• The entrance: through the parking lot of Sep’s restaurant at the same number. Walk in and keep going to the back.
• On foot: about five minutes from Parque México and the Avenida Michoacán restaurant strip, and about ten from Parque España.
• Metro and Metrobús: Chilpancingo and Patriotismo on Metro Line 9 are the closest stations, both roughly a ten to fifteen minute walk. Metrobús Line 1 stops on Avenida Insurgentes nearby.
• Taxi apps: set the pin to Sep’s, not to Club Sorbet, or the driver will circle the block.

Before you go

• Do not trust the posted hours blindly. Listings disagree by several hours in both directions. The safe plan is an afternoon visit.
• Come for golden hour. The owners built the garden around late afternoon light and that is when it looks the way the photographs suggest.
• Bring a dog if you have one. It is fully pet friendly and there is ice cream made for them.
• Sit outside or not at all. There is no covered dining room.
• Ask what changed. The ice cream card does not name a single flavour. It tells you to ask the waiter what is in that day, so the list you read online is probably out of date.
• Come before 13:00 for breakfast. The breakfast card ends there, and the frozen bowls, the Club Croissant and the salmon bagel go with it.
• Pair it with another Condesa stop. For a morning before the garden opens up, see my Orquídea review, a few streets away on Amsterdam.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the short walk through the parking lot and into the garden, with the sorbet and the wine. For the rest of the city, open my map or browse the Mexico City recommendations.