Handshake Speakeasy ★ 4.9
Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City is the Juarez Amberes Street cocktail temple ranked No. 1 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2024 and No. 2 in 2025.
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Licoreria Limantour ★ 4.8
Licoreria Limantour in Mexico City is the Roma Norte cocktail flagship on Avenida Alvaro Obregon, one of the World's 50 Best Bars regulars since 2014.
Hanky Panky ★ 4.7
Hanky Panky in Mexico City is the Juarez speakeasy on Turin Street ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars, opened in 2016 by Walter Meyenberg with bartender.
Tlecan ★ 4.7
Tlecan in Mexico City is the Roma Norte pre-Hispanic agave-spirit bar on Alvaro Obregon, North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 No. 3, focused on rare Mexican.
Mezcaloteca ★ 4.7
Mezcaloteca on Reforma has poured by appointment since 2010: small-batch mezcals from family producers, agave cooked in earthen ovens, no chemicals used.
Bosforo ★ 4.6
Bosforo in Mexico City is the Centro Historico mezcaleria on Luis Moya, a velvet-curtain candle-lit room with 50-plus Oaxacan artisanal mezcales.
Rayo Cocktail Bar ★ 4.6
Rayo Cocktail Bar in Mexico City is the Roma Norte mansion-bar on Salamanca, a North America's 50 Best Bars regular with a Mexico-made cocktail program.
El Gallo Altanero ★ 4.5
El Gallo Altanero in Guadalajara is the Calle Marsella cocktail bar, a Colonia Americana favourite on the World 50 Best Bars Discovery list for agave drinks.
La Negrita Cantina ★ 4.5
La Negrita Cantina on the corner of Calle 62 and 49 in Mérida's Santa Ana opened in 1917, with live trova, codzitos, sikil-pak and over fifty mezcal labels.
La Clandestina ★ 4.5
La Clandestina in Mexico City is the Condesa mezcaleria on Alvaro Obregon, a 15-year-old room with 25 artisanal Oaxacan mezcales arranged like.
La Opera Bar ★ 4.5
La Opera Bar in Mexico City is the 1895 Centro Historico cantina on 5 de Mayo, the ornate dark-wood-and-velvet room where Pancho Villa shot a bullet hole.
Fifty Mils ★ 4.5
Fifty Mils in Mexico City is the Four Seasons Mexico City hotel cocktail bar in Polanco, a World's 50 Best Bars regular under the Four Seasons garden.
Baltra Bar ★ 4.5
Baltra Bar in Mexico City is the Condesa speakeasy on Iztaccihuatl by Limantour's Benjamin Padron, a Darwin-and-Galapagos-themed cocktail bar.
Selva Oaxaca Cocktail Bar ★ 4.5
Selva on Macedonio Alcala is on the 50 Best Discovery list, a creative cocktail bar with Oaxacan-ingredient drinks and mezcals from small distilleries.
In Situ Mezcaleria ★ 4.5
In Situ on Vicente Guerrero is Ulises Torrentera's mezcaleria with 180-plus mezcals and the author often behind the bar pouring on his own flights all night.
El Destilado ★ 4.5
El Destilado on Cinco de Mayo runs a long mezcal and Mexican-sake pairing alongside the tasting menu, with one of Oaxaca's deepest fermented-drink lists.
Miel de Agave ★ 4.5
Miel de Agave keeps more than 170 artisanal mezcal labels on 7 Poniente in Puebla, plus fresh pulque and Pueblan snacks, until two on weekends.
TipMore than 170 artisanal labels sit behind the bar, so hand the choice to the bartender rather than reading the list.
La Fuente ★ 4.4
La Fuente in Guadalajara is the Centro Historico cantina since 1921, the Tapatio botana bar pouring tequila with free snacks at lunch and afternoon hours.
Picheta Rooftop Bar ★ 4.4
Picheta's rooftop bar in Mérida's Centro looks straight at the Cathedral and Plaza Grande, the kitchen's contemporary Yucatecan plates running until 01:00.
Pulqueria Las Duelistas ★ 4.4
Las Duelistas in Mexico City is the 1902 Centro pulqueria on Aranda Street, a colorful muralled room that pours 45 flavors of fermented agave pulque.
Sabina Sabe ★ 4.4
Sabina Sabe on Cinco de Mayo 209 is named for Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina, a cocktail bar with one of the world's largest mezcal collections.
Cuish Mezcaleria ★ 4.4
Cuish on Diaz Ordaz is Felix Hernandez Monterrosa's mezcaleria since 2009, with wild-agave mezcals downstairs and a small art and live-music room upstairs.
Los Danzantes Mezcal Bar ★ 4.4
Los Danzantes runs an in-house mezcal bar program from its distillery, pouring single-village mezcals (Santiago Matatlan) alongside the restaurant menu.
La Pasita ★ 4.4
La Pasita pours its raisin liqueur beside the Plazuela de los Sapos in Puebla, in a room open since 1916, with a cube of cheese and a raisin on a stick.
TipOne pasita comes with a cube of fresh cheese and a raisin on a stick, and the room shuts by six in the evening.
Bilderberg Taproom Centro ★ 4.4
Bilderberg Taproom Centro pours six rotating lines on 5 Oriente in Puebla, from a rice lager to a Russian imperial stout, brewed over in Cholula.
TipSix lines rotate, brewed in Cholula, and the range runs from a five per cent rice lager to a twelve per cent imperial stout.
Pare de Sufrir ★ 4.3
Pare de Sufrir in Guadalajara is the Calle Marsella mezcaleria, a Colonia Americana favourite for Oaxaca and Jalisco mezcal flights and Lafayette late nights.
De La O ★ 4.3
De La O in Guadalajara is the Calle Libertad cocktail bar, a Colonia Americana favourite for mezcal-led drinks, tequila riffs and late-night service.
Catrín 47 Bar ★ 4.3
Catrín 47's bar on the Calle 47 culinary corridor in Mérida pours mezcal flights and Mexican-spirit cocktails under chef Alfredo Villanueva's mural walls.
Hop 3 The Beer Experience ★ 4.3
Hop 3 inside Paseo 60 on Calle 60 Mérida runs 11 rotating taps of Mexican craft beer and a bottle-to-go counter, with snacks and wings at the food-hall bar.
Salon Tenampa ★ 4.3
Salon Tenampa in Mexico City is the 1925 Plaza Garibaldi cantina that gave the plaza its mariachi identity, with three rooms of live music every night.
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