La Nueva Babel

A mural of Bowie as Aladdin Sane juxtaposed with the Virgin of Guadalupe sets Babel's alternative tone, a kind of Mexican dive bar with regular live music from an eclectic cache of performers – it could be son (folk), blues, trova (troubadour-type folk), jazz or cumbia (dance music originating from Colombia). The chairs are covered in old newspaper, should you get bored.