Fonda San Francisco Monterrey: Chef Adrián Herrera

Fonda San Francisco is chef Adrián Herrera’s northeastern Mexican fonda in San Pedro Garza García, a separate municipality in metropolitan Monterrey. It is not in Monterrey proper. As of October 9, 2026, the Michelin Guide lists it at Gómez Morín 323, Santa Engracia, as a recommended restaurant with no star and its cheapest price level ($). Expect to spend about 200 to 400 MXN per person. It is not a burger restaurant. Its one burger, a small bun of smoked suadero, is why it belongs on this site, and I would order it next to the regional dishes that made the fonda’s name, not instead of them.

Fonda San Francisco Monterrey: key facts (checked October 9, 2026)

These are the current facts I could verify, with older details marked as historical.

Who is chef Adrián Herrera?

Adrián Herrera is the self-taught chef and owner of Fonda San Francisco, and a judge on TV Azteca’s MasterChef México and MasterChef Celebrity. The Michelin Guide describes the fonda as “run by Chef/owner Adrián Herrera”, and El Financiero’s 2024 profile confirms the link.

According to his biography on his Milenio column, Herrera was born in Houston, Texas, in 1969. He still calls himself regiomontano and says he has lived in Monterrey his whole life. So the answer to “Houston or Monterrey?” is both: born across the border, raised and based in Monterrey.

He did not come to cooking through culinary school. His bio says he studied medicine for two years and worked as a sculptor before he turned to the stove. He is also a writer with his own publishing house; his books include Norteño and Púdrete en el infierno.

Mexican media often call him “polémico”. The label comes from his blunt persona as a MasterChef judge, not from his restaurants. If you know him from the show and want to eat his food, Fonda San Francisco is the place.

What other restaurants has chef Herrera opened?

Herrera’s own bio lists four Monterrey restaurants he has opened: La Fonda San Francisco, Paso del Norte, Chef Herrera and El Tío, a northeastern Mexican cooking project. I could not confirm opening years or whether the other three are still trading, so treat Fonda San Francisco as the one to plan a visit around.

Where is Fonda San Francisco, and has it moved?

The Michelin Guide 2026 places Fonda San Francisco at Gómez Morín 323, Santa Engracia, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León 66268. That is the address I would use today, but it comes with a caveat.

Almost every profile from 2024 and 2025 gives a different address: Manuel González 115, in the Casco Urbano of San Pedro. El Financiero (March 2024), Food & Pleasure (September 2024) and México Ruta Mágica (August 2024) all use it, and Rappi still shows it as of October 9, 2026. No source I found explains whether the fonda moved, opened a second site or runs both.

My advice: call +52 81 1957 7070 or message @fondasanfrancisco on Instagram before you go. The official site, fonda.mx, is currently a maintenance page with only a contact email (info@fonda.mx).

Is Fonda San Francisco in Monterrey or San Pedro Garza García?

Fonda San Francisco is in San Pedro Garza García, not in the municipality of Monterrey. San Pedro is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area, which is why nearly every Mexican headline files it under “Monterrey”. If you book a ride, enter the San Pedro address.

Map of San Pedro Garza García in metropolitan Monterrey: the marker shows the Gómez Morín corridor where the Michelin Guide 2026 lists Fonda San Francisco (Gómez Morín 323, Santa Engracia); the older 2024 address, Manuel González 115, is in the Casco Urbano to the west. Marker is approximate: call +52 81 1957 7070 before you go. (Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL)

Opening hours: is Fonda San Francisco open on Sundays?

According to the Michelin Guide, Fonda San Francisco opens on Sundays from 12 to 6 pm. Older sources disagree, so confirm before a Sunday visit.

Hours listed by the Michelin Guide (checked October 9, 2026):

• Monday: 1–10 pm
• Tuesday to Friday: 1–11 pm
• Saturday: 1–11:30 pm
• Sunday: 12–6 pm

El Financiero (2024), Gastrolab (2025) and quehacerenmonterrey.com list Monday to Saturday, 1–11 pm, and closed on Sundays. The Michelin hours may reflect the newer Gómez Morín listing.

Fonda San Francisco opening hours compared: Michelin Guide (checked October 9, 2026): Mon 1–10 pm, Tue–Fri 1–11 pm, Sat 1–11:30 pm, Sun 12–6 pm; El Financiero 2024, Gastrolab 2025 and quehacerenmonterrey: Mon–Sat 1–11 pm, closed Sundays. (Table: Burger Breton, data from Michelin Guide, El Financiero, Gastrolab and quehacerenmonterrey.com)

Fonda San Francisco prices: how much does it cost to eat there?

A meal at Fonda San Francisco costs about 200 to 400 MXN per person, according to Gastrolab (June 2025, citing Google Maps). Quehacerenmonterrey.com gives a wider 200 to 500 MXN range. That matches the Michelin Guide’s lowest price level, $.

Dated dish prices from local media, in Mexican pesos:

Treat the 2024 prices as a floor, not a menu. Delivery apps often charge more than the dining room, so the 130 MXN Rappi price does not tell you what you will pay at the table.

Fonda San Francisco prices in Mexican pesos (MXN): most regional small plates cost 40–75 MXN in 2024, the suadero burger rose from 95 MXN (2024) to 130 MXN on Rappi (2026), and the chamorro tops the menu at 285 MXN (2025). Sources: El Financiero, Gastrolab, Rappi. (Chart: Burger Breton via QuickChart, data from El Financiero (2024), Gastrolab (2025) and Rappi (2026))

The suadero burger: Fonda San Francisco’s only burger

The suadero burger is the only burger on Fonda San Francisco’s menu: a small burger built on smoked beef suadero rather than a ground patty. The restaurant calls it “un suceso planetario”, a planetary hit.

What is a suadero burger?

A suadero burger replaces the usual ground-beef patty with suadero, a cut of beef best known from Mexico City taco stands. At Fonda San Francisco the suadero is smoked before it goes into the bun.

Beef suadero, the cut behind Fonda San Francisco’s suadero burger, as it is usually seen at a Mexican taco stand. At the fonda it is smoked and served in a bun instead of a tortilla. (Photo: Koffermejia, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

The recipe has shifted between my two sources:

• March 2024 (El Financiero, 95 MXN): smoked beef suadero, onion, grilled shiitakes, avocado and greens.
• October 2026 (Rappi, 130 MXN): “Hamburguesita de Suadero”, described as smoked meat, mushrooms, caramelized onion, a mix of fine lettuces and artisan mayonnaise.

Fonda San Francisco’s suadero burger, then and now: March 2024 (El Financiero), 95 MXN, smoked beef suadero, onion, grilled shiitakes, avocado and greens; October 2026 (Rappi delivery), 130 MXN, smoked meat, mushrooms, caramelized onion, fine lettuces and artisan mayonnaise. (Table: Burger Breton, data from El Financiero (March 30, 2024) and Rappi (checked October 9, 2026))

Is the suadero burger worth the trip?

Not on its own. Order it as part of a fonda meal; don’t cross the city just for it. I have not eaten it, so this is a judgment from the menu, the prices and the press, not a tasting note.

What draws me to it is the idea: smoked suadero, a taco-stand cut, in a bun, from a kitchen that otherwise cooks goat empalmes and encacahuatadas. What gives me pause is the drift. The 2024 version, with shiitakes and avocado, read like a chef’s dish. The 2026 delivery version, with caramelized onion and mayonnaise, reads closer to a standard bar burger, and it costs 35 MXN more.

Monterrey’s burger identity comes from carne asada and the charcoal-grilled hamburguesa al carbón, which our Monterrey burger page explains. Herrera’s burger sits in that beef culture but takes another route: smoked suadero instead of a patty over coals. I could not confirm how the kitchen finishes it after the smoking, so I am not calling it a charcoal burger. For a pure al carbón burger, go to the street stands. For a smoky, unusual burger with a plate of encacahuatadas on the side, this is the place.

What to order at Fonda San Francisco

Order the regional northeastern dishes first and add the suadero burger: the Michelin inspector singles out the encacahuatadas and the goat empalmes. The kitchen’s stated aim is to reinvent Mexican regional and northeastern dishes as Mexican cocina de autor.

The Michelin Guide’s inspector calls it “a humble establishment, with an under-the-radar vibe… the cooking is rustic”, and praises “earthy, nutty encacahuatadas” and “empalmes filled with a supremely tender, juicy stewed goat”.

What I would build a meal around, based on the menu as reported by México Ruta Mágica (2024) and the Michelin Guide:

• Encacahuatadas: the peanut-sauce dish the Michelin inspector highlights.
• Empalmes: including the empalme satánico; the goat-filled version is the Michelin pick.
• Zamoranas: fried nixtamal tortillas with roast pork, mulato chile adobo, piloncillo, cotija and epazote.
• Cabrito, pipián, chamorro or chicharrón: the larger regional plates.
• Suadero burger: the one burger on the menu.
• Tabasco chocolate flan with candied pepitas: for dessert.
• Northeastern tasting menu: if you want the kitchen to choose.

Cabrito, Monterrey’s signature roast kid goat, one of the larger regional plates on Fonda San Francisco’s northeastern Mexican menu (photo from Monterrey, not taken at the fonda). (Photo: Ivanmartinez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Herrera’s approach: regional food at fonda prices

Fonda San Francisco’s stated philosophy is “Ofrecer buen servicio a un precio accesible. Comer rico y comer bien”: good service at an accessible price, tasty food, eating well. The prices in the table above back that up.

The setting has been as personal as the food. In 2024, México Ruta Mágica described the Manuel González site as modern art with an underground, gothic look: references to Edgar Allan Poe, Nosferatu and Danny Trejo, and a private room with an altar to Chef Herrera himself. That description is historical. I could not confirm whether the Gómez Morín site keeps the same decor.

Does Fonda San Francisco have a Michelin star?

No. Fonda San Francisco is a Michelin-selected (recommended) restaurant, with no star and no Bib Gourmand. It appears in the Michelin Guide Mexico in 2024, 2025 and the 2026 selection, which Players of Life summarized for the Monterrey area in May 2026.

For readers building a list of Michelin restaurants in the Monterrey, Mexico area, it is one of the most affordable: the Guide rates its price level $ and its cuisine Mexican.

How I put this profile together

This is a desk-researched profile, dated October 9, 2026, not a review: I have not eaten there and I have not rated the food. I cross-checked the Michelin Guide listing, the restaurant’s Instagram and website, Rappi’s live menu, and local press from El Financiero, Food & Pleasure, Gastrolab, México Ruta Mágica, TV Azteca and Herrera’s own Milenio biography. Where sources disagree (address, hours, burger price and recipe), I give both versions with their dates. No opening year is stated because none of these sources gives one.

More Mexican chef-led restaurants and Mexico guides

If Herrera’s fonda is your kind of place, these pages cover more of Mexico:

• Salón Mezcalli Puebla: chef Liz Galicia’s Michelin-listed mezcalería, another chef-run, Michelin-recommended regional kitchen.
• Burgers in Monterrey, our city page on charcoal-grilled hamburguesas al carbón.
• Carl’s Jr Cancun: locations, hours and menu prices, for the fast-food side of Mexico.
• All our burger restaurant guides, city by city.

FAQ: Fonda San Francisco and chef Adrián Herrera

Who is chef Adrián Herrera and where is his restaurant?

Adrián Herrera is a self-taught chef, writer and MasterChef México judge. His restaurant, Fonda San Francisco, is in San Pedro Garza García, in metropolitan Monterrey; the Michelin Guide 2026 lists it at Gómez Morín 323, Santa Engracia.

Has Fonda San Francisco moved?

Possibly. Media from 2024–2025 and Rappi give Manuel González 115, while the Michelin Guide 2026 gives Gómez Morín 323. No source explains the change, so call +52 81 1957 7070 before you go.

Does Fonda San Francisco have a Michelin star?

No. It is a Michelin-selected restaurant with no star and no Bib Gourmand, listed in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

How much does it cost to eat at Fonda San Francisco?

About 200–400 MXN per person, according to Gastrolab (2025). Most small regional plates cost 40–75 MXN in 2024.

What is the suadero burger at Fonda San Francisco?

It is the fonda’s only burger, made with smoked beef suadero instead of a ground patty. It cost 95 MXN in 2024 and is listed at 130 MXN on Rappi in October 2026.

Is Fonda San Francisco open on Sundays?

The Michelin Guide lists Sunday hours of 12–6 pm, but older local sources say it closes on Sundays. Confirm by phone or Instagram first.

Is Adrián Herrera from Houston or Monterrey?

Both. He was born in Houston, Texas, in 1969, but calls himself regiomontano and says he has lived in Monterrey his whole life.