Fodor's Expert Review Sanborns

Sanborns is a chain of mini department stores with some 80 branches in Mexico City, including one in almost every shopping mall. The most convenient are at Calle Madero 4 (one of its original stores, in the House of Tiles, downtown), though there are also several along Paseo de la Reforma (including one at the Angel Monument and another four blocks west of the Diana Fountain); in San Angel (on Avenida de la Revolución and Avenida de la Paz); Coyoacán (at the Jardín Centenario); and in the Zona Rosa (one at the corner of Niza and Hamburgo and another at Londres 130 in the Hotel Calinda Geneve). They carry ceramics and crafts (and can ship anywhere), and most have restaurants or coffee shops with free wireless Internet access, a pharmacy, ATMs, and periodical-book departments with English-language publications.