Its traditional dish is the delicious Ximbote, made in a maguey stalk stuffed with pork, chicken, chinicuiles, escamoles or snails, which will leave a unique flavor on the palate.

You can also try mushrooms, worms, barbacoa (meats slow-roasted over an open fire), pollo en pulque (chicken in pulque), ceviche de hongo seta (mushroom ceviche), ximbote de caracol y escamol (a maguey stalk with a cross section where the snails and escamoles are placed), gualumbos en tortitas de huevo (quiotitos flowers with eggs), nopalachile (heart of nopal) and caldo de malva (malva, an edible plant, broth), among other dishes.

La Guadalupana, is considered an unmissable tourist attraction in Zempoala. It is a bakery that is more than 70 years old producing mouthwatering sweet breads like cocol or pan de burra (piloncillo stuffed with cheese prepared in the oven with pirul firewood).

There is wide variety of drinks to taste in Zempala, like fresh waters, a good coffee, pulque or a craft beer.