Condé Nast Traveler's Alternative Bucket List

"Mexico City's Roma and Condesa neighborhoods are almost too perfect these days—shaded lanes, painfully hip boutiques, Instagrammable-as-all-hell restaurants. Salon Los Angeles, an old-school dance hall that's been on the scene for some 80 years, is the perfect antidote. The lighting is harsh, the band's stage is festooned in silver streamers, and the wall is covered in fading photos of regulars. Go on a Sunday, when the live salsa band is in full swing, and the crowd is dressed in their Havana-inspired best (zoot suits included). Their slogan is, "If you don't know Salon Los Angeles, you don't know Mexico City," and I think they're right."