Mariachi Intruders Attack Mexico City Jet Set.
Forget South Beach: Next stop for boutique-hotel types seems to be Mexico City—despite the fact that it’s nowhere near a beach and it’s still too dangerous to hail a cab there. Sirio Maccioni and Jeffrey Chodorow have opened restaurants, and the latest chic hotel, Condesa DF—in a twenties building—is co-owned by Jonathan Morr (BondSt). Its opening party on January 28 was packed, raucous, and a bit unsettling, not unlike the city itself. Shortly after dawn, a mariachi band began barging into guests’ rooms. “It felt churlish to complain,” says Brian McNally. “In New York, it would have been stockbrokers throwing up all over themselves.” But Blender editor Victoria DeSilverio was hit in the head as the band entered, screaming and downing tequila shots. “We tried to hide under our pillows,” says Julia Chaplin, her roommate. “But they kept saying, ‘You are lucky to be in Mexico! It is a fiesta!’ ”
—Deborah Schoeneman

EDITED BY CARL SWANSON

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