The morning crowd at Casa Myz arrives in waves. At 8 AM it is the yoga people, still carrying their mats, ordering bowls and fresh juice before Cholula heats up. By 10 AM the tables on Calle 10 Norte fill with a different group: the ones who found out that $150 pesos gets you chilaquiles and something cold and green from the juice bar. The espresso bar hums. Nobody is in a hurry.
Casa Myz sits at 10 Norte 603 in Cholula de Rivadavia, a neighborhood of stone and new coffee at the edge of the Cholula sprawl. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The people running this place are not interested in grinding seven days a week, and that self-awareness extends to the kitchen: this is a cafe that has decided what it wants to be and does that thing without apology.
The chilaquiles are what keeps people coming back. In Puebla state, where chilaquiles are treated with something close to religious seriousness, that is a real claim. The vegan options go well beyond the token approach, which is probably why the yoga crowd comes back for coffee and stays for the food. The juice lineup changes, but there is always variety: hibiscus and celery and whatever arrived at the market that morning.
Prices run $100 to $200 MXN. The atmosphere visitors describe is lively, which in this context means cheerful noise and tables that fill before noon. It earns its perfect rating across eighteen visits.
A few kilometers east, on Calle 5 de Mayo, Caffe Toscano works a quieter register. The address, Local 2 at number 212, tucks it into a small commercial space inside Puebla's centro histórico, the kind of spot that goes unnoticed until someone tips you off. Consider yourself tipped off.
Someone here is serious about Italian pastry. Tiramisu, panna cotta, sourdough bread, and affogato on a menu priced under $100 MXN. This is not a Mexican cafe that added espresso as an afterthought. The affogato alone justifies the trip: hot espresso poured over vanilla ice cream, bitter and cold and sweet colliding in the same small glass, finished before you are ready for it to be over.
The corn bread alongside the Italian classics is interesting. It means whoever runs the kitchen knows where they are sitting geographically, that Puebla's pantry is right there, and that you do not have to choose between a sourdough starter and local grain. Open Tuesday through Sunday from 9 AM to 8 PM. Closed Mondays, same as Casa Myz.
Both cafes close on Mondays. Whether that is coincidence or something about how good cafes in Puebla breathe, who knows. What you know walking out of either place is that the people running them have thought carefully about one specific thing and refused to compromise on it. At Casa Myz it is the morning. At Caffe Toscano it is the afternoon espresso. Between the two, you have covered the day.
