Andy Baraghani’s Impromptu Long Weekend in San Miguel de Allende

Everyone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep  into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating  A Beautiful Mind–style spreadsheets to come up with the best  vacations/itineraries possible. In this recurring series, we find those people who’ve done  all the work for you and have them walk us through a particularly wonderful, especially  well-thought-out vacation they took that you can actually steal.

Recipe developer and forthcoming cookbook author Andy Baraghani was supposed to  spend Christmas in Paris and Strasbourg. But concerns over Omicron forced him and his  boyfriend, Keith Pollock, to pivot to a warmer destination where they could spend more  time outside. Baraghani isn’t much for the beach (“I get really bored”) and has been to  Mexico City several times (his list of food recommendations there is 12 pages long), so the  couple decided on San Miguel de Allende,The CPVOD-19 situation there: Mexico is open  to  travelers from the United States and is not currently requiring a negative test result or  a  quarantine. As of December 6, travelers heading back to the United States will need to  show a negative COVID-19 test result taken within one day of the flight, regardless of  vaccination status. booked flights, and left the next day. That the former Bon Appétit  editor prioritizes food and drink on trips should come as no surprise — he had reservations  booked far in advance for Paris — and San Miguel de Allende proved no  different, even if it was spur-of-the-moment. Here, Baraghani shares what he and Pollock  stumbled upon on their first trip to the colorful, colonial city, from the best ceviche  tostadas to the café culture and mercados.

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