Franz Mayer and the Fallen Crown

Breakfast on Patio

Chest from the Franz Mayer Museum 

Courtyard at Franz Mayer Museum

First Shopping in Mexico

Our Daily FaceTime with Barbara

 

Black Cod

Lobster Pasta

We awakened after a good night’s sleep. Not sure if was from our exhaustion from the travel day, the wine and margarita we had with dinner or the sleeping pill, no matter, we slept like babies.

 

We had a wonderful breakfast on our patio then took an Uber to the Franz Mayer Museum. The traffic was terrible. It reminded us of Delhi or Bombay. One huge difference is there is no honking of horns like you constantly hear in India.

 

The museum is housed in an old colonial monastery that has been repurposed as a museum of decorative arts. Franz Mayer was a financier who collected artworks, books, furniture, ceramics, textiles and many other types of decorative items over fifty years of his life. A large portion comes from Europe and Asia, but most comes from Mexico itself with items dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. We wondered the halls. All of the placards explaining the art was in Spanish, but by using Google Translate I was able to just take a picture of the placard and Google instantly translated it. Very convenient. Thank you, Google.

 

They had a cabinet very much like the one we have in our living room, which we then realized was styled after early Mexican decorative arts.    We were very interested in the Mexican Blue pottery. I hadn’t realized that Mexico has been trading with China for hundreds of years. Mexican artisans started creating blue vessels that if you didn’t know you would have thought were old Ming Vases. The museum intersperses the Mexican made pots with the Ming Vases for comparisons. The courtyard in the museum retrains the feeling of the monastery, square in design so the monks could walk around the perimeter. 

 

We were then ready for our first shopping trip; we needed wine for the room. I have had difficulties following Google maps, and we walked around in what I thought were circles but eventually found a nice wine store. We are now stocked up!

 

We were greeted with a light warm rain more like a very light drizzle. We returned to the hotel to freshen up for dinner. 

 

Every night for the last year no matter where in the world we are, we have daily, at cocktail hour, Face Timed with our friend Barbara in San Francisco. Once again we checked in with her from our Patio here in Mexico City.

 

We were sitting around our room waiting to go out to dinner and of all things Cathy lost a crown from a tooth. Luckily, she was able to recover it and we will get it re-installed upon our return to LA.

 

We then walked to Rosetta, one of the top-rated restaurants in Mexico City. It is very casual. We love restaurants that aren’t pretentious yet serve excellent food. This is such a restaurant. I won’t go over every course, but the Lobster Pasta and the Black Cod with Cauliflower Puree and Golden Raisins were exceptional. We will return to dine at Rosetta on our next trip. We did agree, however that the Margarita was not as good as the one we had last night at Bianco Colima.