Where to go if you’re missing Whole Foods in Mexico City
Updated April, 2026
When I first wrote this post, the honest answer was that nothing really filled the gap. The organic grocery scene was small, imported products were hard to find, and the best strategy was to stock up every time you went back to the States. That is no longer true. The city now has a range of options that covers everything Whole Foods did — and in some categories does it better.
What follows is organized by what you are actually looking for, because the best answer depends on whether you need organic produce, specialty imported ingredients, natural personal care products, or all of the above.
For organic groceries and Mexican produce: The Green Corner
5 LOCATIONS IN CDMX. THE ANCHOR OPTION.
The Green Corner has been here since 2003 — longer than most of the alternatives — and it has grown into the most complete organic grocery option in the city. Seven locations across CDMX now, with three attached restaurants at the Condesa and Coyoacán stores. The products — more than 3,000 of them — come from around 250 small Mexican producers, cooperatives, rural communities, and indigenous enterprises. This is the place for organic fruit and vegetables, Mexican pantry staples, fair-trade products, and sustainably produced household goods.
The produce selection varies by location but the Condesa, Coyoacán, and Roma stores tend to have the best. The Condesa and Coyoacán locations are also the ones with restaurants, which makes them natural stops for lunch while you shop. The Roma location on Mérida is the smallest but conveniently placed.
The Green Corner also carries a range of natural personal care products — body care, hair care, some cosmetics — making it useful even if groceries are not what you are looking for. Same-day delivery is available across CDMX and the metropolitan area.
The Green Corner — Condesa: Mazatlán 81 // Roma: Mérida 64 // Coyoacán: Quevedo 733 // Del Valle: Coyoacán 1052 // Santa Fe: G. González Camarena 1205 // thegreencorner.org
For gourmet and imported products: City Market
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. THE WHOLE FOODS EQUIVALENT IN QUALITY AND SCOPE.
City Market is owned by La Comer and is the closest thing Mexico City has to what Whole Foods was doing at its best — a full-service gourmet supermarket where the quality of everything, from produce to proteins to imported specialty items, is genuinely high. Multiple reviewers have compared it favorably to Harrods Food Hall, which is perhaps excessive, but it gives you a sense of the register.
For imported products specifically — the things that were hardest to find before — City Market is the most reliable answer. Specialty cheeses, international charcuterie, a well-curated wine section, Japanese pantry items, good olive oils. The stores also have in-house bakeries, coffee bars, and prepared food sections. The Polanco location on Lago Zurich is the most central; there are also stores in Lomas, Santa Fe, and Del Valle.
It is not cheap — pricing on some imported items is significantly marked up, and this is worth knowing going in. But for quality and selection of items that simply were not available in Mexico City ten years ago, it is the best option.
City Market — Polanco: Lago Zurich 215 // Lomas: Homero 1730 // Santa Fe: G. González Camarena 1205 // Del Valle // citymarket.com.mx
For health-focused and supplement-heavy shopping: Estado Natural
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. BEST FOR SUPPLEMENTS, HEALTH FOODS, AND SPECIALTY DIETS.
Estado Natural sits between an organic grocery and a health supplement store — it carries the things that neither The Green Corner nor City Market necessarily prioritizes: protein powders, adaptogens, functional foods, superfoods, specialty diet products for gluten-free, keto, or vegan needs. If you are looking for the kind of aisle that Whole Foods dedicated to supplements and wellness products, this is where to go. They also specialize in bulk foods, so if what you’re missing from Whole Foods is the bins, this is your best solution.
There are locations across the city, open seven days a week. The Polanco store on Av. Horacio is convenient for that part of the city; Santa Fe has another. The selection of organic pantry staples is reasonable but secondary to the health-product focus.
Estado Natural — Polanco: Horacio 112 // Santa Fe: Vasco de Quiroga 3800 // estadonatural.com.mx
Amsterdam Markt
CONDESA. SMALL, CURATED, WORTH KNOWING.
Amsterdam Markt is not trying to be a full supermarket and is better for not trying. It is a small, well-curated shop in the Condesa with a particular strength in bulk items — nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, dried fruits — along with vegan specialty products, natural pantry staples, and some personal care items. The kind of shop where you go knowing more or less what you need and leave having found it plus several things you had not thought to look for.
Particularly good for: bulk organic ingredients, vegan alternatives (cashew yogurt, plant-based proteins), Bragg liquid aminos and similar health staples, essential oils, and household products. More limited on fresh produce and conventional grocery staples. Consistently appears on current Yelp and Google rankings of the best organic stores in the city.
Amsterdam Markt — Condesa (check current address via Google Maps — location has moved)
For everyday shopping with better options: La Comer and Chedraui Selecto
Not specialty stores, but worth knowing: La Comer (same group as City Market, more accessible price point) and Chedraui Selecto have both expanded their organic and natural product sections significantly over the past several years. Neither replaces the stores above for a dedicated health-food shop, but for the everyday grocery run when you also need to pick up a few better-quality items — organic milk, free-range eggs, some natural personal care products — they are increasingly viable and far more convenient in many neighborhoods.
A note on cosmetics and personal care: The Green Corner and Estado Natural both carry natural personal care products across their locations. For dedicated natural beauty shopping — clean skincare brands, artisanal Mexican cosmetics, international luxury clean beauty — see the companion post on natural cosmetics in Mexico City.
I just read your note “Where to go if you are missing Whole Foods in Mexico City” and wanted to let you know I just opened a new store called VERUM in Av Mexico 27, Colonia Condesa. We sell real, fresh, organic food from Mexican suppliers so you can buy you everyday groceries, including produce, dairy, meat, fish and poultry as well as oils, nuts, seeds, bread, etc. It’s kind of a neighborhood store where you can do your everyday shopping of real food. I hope you can visit us soon. http://www.tiendasverum.com. Best regards. Antonio
Hi Antonio, thanks very much for your comment. I’ll be sure to stop by when I have a chance.
Very helpful article!… “Whole Foods” is EXACTLY what I”m looking for here 🙂 Even more specifically I’m looking for some henna hair powder, which I always used to get at Whole Foods. Now at least I know where to check!
Hi Hannah! I am so glad that the post was useful for you. I believe that you may also be able to find henna products at some of the smaller “naturista” stores that are common in the underground passageways of the metro and the ones that cross under busy roads like Reforma and Periferico.
You can also find organic produce through suscription baskets sent directly to your home. They are great because a larger percentage of the price goes to the people who grow the food. There are many different services like this: el buen campo, mi canasta verde, yolcan, de la chinampa. There are also organic markets suck as mercado el 100 and sometimes huerto roma verde.
Thank you for this! I just arrived this week and am looking to purchase some probiotics and other nourishing supplements. The city has already proven a challenge for my digestive system.