Pins zu place:Mexico

Enrique Olvera opened Pujol in 2000 and spent the next two decades turning it into the restaurant that taught the fine-dining world to take Mexican cooking seriously - most famously through a mole kept going and re-fed for thousands of days, served as a ring of sauce around a younger one. It has been a fixture of the World's 50 Best list for years and moved to its present Polanco address, a courtyard house with a tasting counter, in the 2010s.

A 57-storey concrete-and-glass tower on Paseo de la Reforma, engineered to ride out centuries of predicted earthquakes, topped out as Mexico City's tallest building.

Mexico inaugurated the first operating section of the Tren Maya, a roughly $10BN, 1,500km railway looping the Yucatan Peninsula that had drawn years of backlash from environmentalists and indigenous communities.

Zak Pelaccio, of Manhattan's Fatty Crab, opens a Southeast Asian restaurant in a former Santa Fe furniture workshop, with 24-year-old Stella Achenbach running the kitchen.

The 19-kilometre, 20-station Line 1 returned to service end to end after a stage-by-stage closure for CRRC's System+ modernisation, which brought new trains, Siemens CBTC signalling and a rebuilt Observatorio station with 13 lifts. Railway Gazette puts the PPP concession behind the work at 32.2 billion pesos.

The last section of the 57.7-kilometre Mexico-Toluca commuter railway, from Santa Fe into the rebuilt Observatorio terminal, was inaugurated, finishing a line that had been opening in stages from Zinacantepec since 2023. Its estimated cost climbed from $38.6 billion MXN in 2014 to $73.72 billion MXN by 2019.

The ground reopened with Mexico against Portugal after closing in May 2024 for a rebuild covering modern screens, new lighting and redeveloped press areas and entrances, leaving a capacity of about 90,000. It will host five 2026 World Cup matches, making it the only stadium to stage three tournaments.

The third stage of the Mexico-Pachuca "Felipe Angeles" train runs 65 km of electrified double track from the AIFA airport terminal in the State of Mexico to Pachuca in Hidalgo, with stations at AIFA, Xaltocan II, Tizayuca-Temascalapa, Jaguey de Tellez and Pachuca plus four intermediate stops, and is meant to carry over 100,000 passengers a day in 1 hour 15 minutes end to end. The Felipe Angeles Engineers Corps of the defence ministry began construction in March 2025 and reported 37.06 per cent overall progress in June 2026.

Mexicans elect all 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies on 6 June 2027, the midterm test of Claudia Sheinbaum's supermajority, held alongside state elections.

At 2,200 metres above sea level the air is thin enough to change how the cars cool, brake and make power, and the lap ends through a baseball stadium.

The 11.4-kilometre cable car will run nine stations from Pedregal de San Nicolás in the Ajusco down to Metro Universidad, carrying an investment the presidency puts at "más de 4 mil 700 millones de pesos" (more than 4.7 billion pesos). Construction stood at 20 per cent when President Sheinbaum inspected the works in August 2026.