Dimora Nemorino

What Dimora Nemorino is

Dimora Nemorino is a small tea house at Calle Córdoba 152 in Roma Norte, Mexico City. It opened in 2026 and describes itself simply as té y café, tea and coffee. In practice it is a tea room first: a long list of loose-leaf blends, a short dessert counter, and a room dressed as a Victorian parlour.

The interior is the draw. The space is tiny and packed with vintage furniture, mirrors, lamps and objects, eclectic and deliberately over the top rather than minimal in the way most new Roma Norte cafés are. It photographs well, which is why it spread quickly on TikTok and Instagram in the months after it opened, usually described as a place that transports you to another era.

The practical consequence of a small room full of furniture is that the tables are very close together. Conversations at one table are audible at the next, closely enough that you can follow what the people beside you are discussing. That is worth knowing before you pick it for a particular kind of conversation.

It also sits in a part of Roma Norte where almost every new opening is a specialty coffee bar, which makes a dedicated tea room unusual. Mexico City has a handful of proper casas de té, most of them further west or in Polanco, so a Roma Norte address with a long loose-leaf list and no espresso machine at the centre of the counter fills a genuine gap in the neighbourhood rather than adding to a crowded category.

The name is the same joke as the decor. Nemorino is the peasant tenor in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, the character who buys a love potion from a travelling quack, and dimora is Italian for dwelling. The house is Nemorino’s, and what you drink in it is the elixir.

How the tea menu works

The ordering process is the part that makes the visit different from a normal café.

• A long list of blends. Far more teas than a café would normally carry, black, green and infusions.
• Named after opera characters. The house theme runs from the name down to the tins. A pot called Isolde borrows from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and the rest follow the same idea.
• You smell before you choose. The loose leaves are brought to the table so you can smell each one and pick by nose rather than by label.
• Served by the pot. Listed sizes include 400 ml, which is enough for two small cups or one large one.
• Coffee is on the list, but it is not what the room is set up for, and on my visit the coffee machines did not look to be in service yet.
• A short dessert counter rounds it out: three cakes on display and a tray of cookies the house calls alfajores.

What I found

Take the smelling offer seriously. It is the whole reason the list works, and picking a blend by nose gets you somewhere very different from picking the one with the name you recognise.

The sweet side is where the visit falls short. The counter on my visit in July 2026 held three cakes and the alfajores, and the cakes did not look like the reason to come. The alfajores are worth a clarification of their own, because the name sets an expectation the cookie does not meet: these are not Argentine alfajores, not two soft biscuits sandwiching dulce de leche, so order one as its own thing rather than as the thing you already know.

Listings from the same period also mention an isla flotante, meringue on custard, at around 75 pesos. Treat the sweet menu as something that rotates and is still finding its shape, and treat the tea as the reason you are there.

What it costs

Dimora Nemorino does not publish a full menu online. These are the figures that appear in listings and reviews from mid 2026. Prices move.

Item	Price
Tea, 400 ml pot	around 90 MXN, about 5 USD
Dessert from the counter	around 75 MXN, about 4 USD
Tea and a dessert for one	roughly 165 MXN, about 9 USD
Two teas and one dessert to share	under 300 MXN for two people

This is one of the cheaper sit-down stops in Roma Norte. A tea house of this kind is often assumed to be a mid-range spend, and the published prices put it below that.

How to visit

There is no booking system and no phone number in circulation.

• Instagram: @nemorino.mx is the only published contact, and the place the hours are posted.
• Walk in. The room has a handful of tables and works on a first-come basis.
• Timing. Weekday mornings are the easiest. Weekend afternoons are when the room fills and the wait for a table starts.
• Hours to confirm. The venue lists 09:00 to 20:30 daily; third-party listings say 12:00 to 20:00. Check before travelling.

Getting there

• Address: Calle Córdoba 152, colonia Roma Norte, 06700 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.
• Metro: Insurgentes on Line 1 is about eight minutes on foot. Hospital General on Line 3 is roughly fifteen.
• Metrobús: the Álvaro Obregón and Durango stops on Line 1 along Insurgentes are both nearby.
• On foot: Córdoba runs parallel to Orizaba, a few minutes from Plaza Río de Janeiro and about ten minutes from the Fuente de Cibeles.
• Parking: residential street parking only, and difficult at weekends. Walk or take a ride hail.

Before you go

• Do not come here to gossip. The tables are close enough that the next table hears everything, and you will hear theirs.
• Take the smelling offer. It is the only practical way through the list.
• Tea over dessert. Three cakes and a tray of cookies is the whole sweet offer, and it is the weaker half for now.
• Do not order an alfajor expecting an alfajor. The house uses the word for something else entirely.
• Ask about the coffee before you order one. The machines were not in service when I visited.
• Small room, few tables. Arrive early in the day or expect to wait at the weekend.
• Check the hours on Instagram. The published schedule and the listings do not agree.
• Pair it with a Roma Norte café crawl. Ritmo Café and Mackie’s Bagels and Deli are both a few minutes away.

Watch the visit

The short from this visit sits above this article once it is published, showing the room and the tea service. For everywhere else I have filmed in the city, open my map or browse the rest of the Mexico City recommendations.