The most-concentrated shopping area is the Zona Rosa, which stays chock-full of boutiques, jewelry stores, leather-goods shops, antiques stores, and art galleries.

Polanco, a choice residential neighborhood along the northeast perimeter of Bosque de Chapultepec, has blossomed into a more upscale shopping area. Select shops line the huge, ultramodern Plaza Polanco (Jaime Balmes 11, Col. Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico). You can also head to the Plaza Masarik (Av. Presidente Masaryk and Anatole France, Col. Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico). Plaza Moliere (Moliere between Calles Horacio and Homero, Col. Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico) is another upscale shopping area. The Colonia Condesa, though better known for restaurants and cafés, is sprouting designer clothing boutiques, primarily for a younger crowd. Jewelers, shoe shops, and some hip housewares stores are squeezing in as well. Most cluster along avenidas Michoacán, Vicente Suárez, and Tamaulipas.

Hundreds of shops with more modest trappings and better prices are spread along the length of Avenida Insurgentes and Avenida Juárez.