Where is Maison Frite in Mexico City?

Maison Frite is at Calle Colima 298, in the Centro Urbano Presidente Juárez block of Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Mexico City. It is a counter rather than a dining room, with a few tables on the pavement outside. The closest metro is Insurgentes on Line 1, about ten minutes on foot.

What does Maison Frite serve?

Fries, essentially, treated as the main dish rather than a side. Potatoes are cut fresh, blanched in batches and finished to order, then served in a paper cone. On top of that sits a long list of sauces and toppings, some French and some Mexicanised, so the fries come plain, with goat cheese, with ratatouille, with meat, or with whatever combination you build.

How much does Maison Frite cost?

Listings put the cones at roughly 80 to 220 MXN depending on which of the three sizes you order, about 4.50 to 12 USD, with extra toppings at 30 to 60 MXN each. That makes Maison Frite one of the cheaper stops on Colima street, though a large cone with two or three toppings adds up fast. Prices move, so check the board at the counter.

What are Maison Frite's opening hours?

Listings give roughly 13:00 to 21:45, Tuesday to Sunday. Maison Frite is an afternoon and evening operation rather than a lunch place, and it is small, so the queue is longest in the early evening. Confirm the current hours before making a trip across the city for it.

What sauces does Maison Frite have?

The sauce list is the point of difference. Alongside the French standards there are Mexicanised versions, including a tequila, lime and chipotle sauce and a honey mustard. Toppings run from goat cheese to ratatouille to meat, which turns a cone of fries into something closer to a meal.

Who opened Maison Frite?

Three friends from France who missed the fries from home and decided to make them properly in Mexico City. The names are not published. The method they use is the classic one: cut fresh, blanch in batches, then fry again to order, with the salt going on at the very end.

Is there anywhere to sit at Maison Frite?

Barely, and that is by design. Maison Frite is a counter with a handful of tables outside on Colima. You order at the window, wait, and eat standing, sitting on the pavement or walking. Delivery through Uber Eats is the alternative, though fries travel worse than almost anything else on a menu.

Are Maison Frite's fries actually good?

The technique is right, and the sauces are the reason to go rather than the potatoes alone. When I visited, the fries ran a little over-fried for my taste, drier and darker than I would have chosen. If you like a crisper, deeper-coloured fry, that is exactly what you want; if you prefer them pale and soft inside, ask for them less done.

Maison Frite CDMX: French fries counter in Roma Norte

A tiny French Fries counter just opened by three friends from France who missed the fries from home. Fresh-cut potatoes, blanched in batches and finished to order, served in a paper cone with a long list of toppings and sauces. A few tables outside, order at the counter.

Maison Frite is a tiny counter at Colima 298 opened by three friends from France who missed the fries from home, serving fresh-cut potatoes in a paper cone with a long list of sauces and toppings. Here is how it works, what it costs and when it opens.

What Maison Frite is

Maison Frite is a small French fry counter at Colima 298 in Roma Norte, Mexico City. Not a restaurant that serves fries, a counter that only does fries. You order at the window, the cone comes out in paper, and you take it to one of the few tables on the pavement or you walk with it.

It was opened by three friends from France who could not find the fries they grew up with in Mexico City and decided to make them. That single idea explains the whole operation: potatoes cut fresh rather than delivered frozen, blanched in batches through the day, then fried again to order so the outside crisps and the inside stays soft. Salt goes on last. This is the standard method in France and Belgium and it is almost never done in a city where fries usually arrive as a side dish nobody thought about.

The arrival of Maison Frite is part of a wider wave. Fry-focused counters have been opening across European cities for a couple of years, and Roma Norte is where that kind of thing lands in Mexico City first. Colima street in particular now runs from a fine dining room to a fire-driven asador to a fry window inside a few hundred metres.

Who is behind it

Three French friends, whose names are not published. They are not restaurant people with a group behind them, which shows in the scale: one window, one product, a short list of extras. The reference is the frite as it is eaten at home, in a cone, standing up, with something on top. Everything in the operation follows from protecting that, which is why the potatoes are cut on site and the frying is split into two stages rather than one.

There is no menu in the usual sense. You choose a size, then you choose what goes on it.

The base: fresh-cut potatoes, blanched in batches, finished to order, served in a paper cone. Three sizes.
Classic or loaded: plain and salted, or built up with toppings.
Toppings: goat cheese, ratatouille, meat, and others that rotate. Each one is charged on top of the cone.
Sauces: the French standards plus Mexicanised inventions. Tequila, lime and chipotle is the one that gets ordered; honey mustard is the safe choice.
Delivery: Maison Frite is listed on Uber Eats, though fries are among the worst things in the world to send across a city.

The sauces are the reason the place works. A cone of well-made fries is a good snack; a cone with tequila, lime and chipotle on it is a specific thing you cannot get anywhere else on the street.

What I ate

I had a classic cone with the Mexicanised sauces. The cut and the method were right, and the ratatouille and meat toppings turn the cone into a proper meal rather than a snack. For my taste the fries themselves came out a little over-fried, darker and drier than I would have chosen. That is a preference rather than a fault, and it is worth saying at the counter if you like them paler.

What it costs

Maison Frite does not publish a price board online, and the figures below come from listings rather than from the counter itself. They were current in September 2026.

Item	Price
Cone of fries, three sizes	About 80 to 220 MXN, roughly 4.50 to 12 USD
Each extra topping	30 to 60 MXN, about 1.50 to 3.50 USD
Sauces	Included or charged as extras depending on the choice

A small cone with one sauce is the cheapest thing you will eat on this stretch of Roma Norte. A large cone loaded with two or three toppings lands closer to the price of a full plate elsewhere, so decide which visit you are having before you order. Prices move.

How to visit

There is nothing to book and nothing to plan. A few practical points:

Order at the counter and pay there. No table service.
The fries are finished to order, so there is a wait even when it looks empty.
The queue builds in the early evening, from about 18:00 onwards.
Seating is a handful of outdoor tables. Assume you will stand.
Cash is not usually a problem in Roma Norte, but a small counter is always safer with some.

Getting there

Address: Calle Colima 298, Centro Urbano Presidente Juárez, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Mexico City.
Metro: Insurgentes on Line 1, about a ten minute walk. Hospital General on Line 3 is a similar distance.
Metrobús: Línea 1 at Álvaro Obregón, about seven minutes away.
Landmarks: the eastern end of Colima, past Plaza Río de Janeiro heading away from Insurgentes.
Parking: street parking on Colima is difficult. This is a place to reach on foot.

Before you go

Go hungry but not starving. It is one product, and a large cone is a lot of potato.
Say how you want them. If you like a paler, softer fry, ask before they go in.
Order the tequila, lime and chipotle sauce. It is the thing you cannot get in France.
Do not order delivery if you can walk. Fries lose everything in a bag.
Time it for late afternoon. It opens around lunchtime and stays open to roughly 21:45, and the middle of the afternoon is the quiet window.
Make it one stop on Colima. Lotti is at number 235 and La Pantera Asador at 124, so the street can carry an entire evening on its own.
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 version, the cut, the cone and the sauces. For everything else in the city, open my map or browse the Mexico City recommendations.