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 Gina Barbachano, hidden behind an unassuming fonda door with reservation-only entry.
Food program: Snacks
Address: Turin, Juarez, Cuauhtemoc, 06600 Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Bosforo in Mexico City is the Centro Historico mezcaleria on Luis Moya, a velvet-curtain candle-lit room with 50-plus Oaxacan artisanal mezcales and the city's most knowledgeable bar staff.
Signature drink: Tobala mezcal flight
Food: Snacks
La Clandestina in Mexico City is the Condesa mezcaleria on Alvaro Obregon, a 15-year-old room with 25 artisanal Oaxacan mezcales arranged like a master-distiller's tasting bar.
Signature drink: Espadin and Tobala flight
Food: Snacks
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 and a Jalisco-style antojitos kitchen.
Signature drink: Tequila and pulque
Food: Antojitos and Jalisco dishes
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 in the ceiling that still marks the spot.
Signature drink: Tequila reposado
Food: Cantina antojitos
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, with seven flavors served on Friday and Saturday.
Signature drink: Curado de pina pulque
Food: Pulqueria antojitos
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 built around the agave-goddess Mayahuel legend.
Signature drink: Mexican spirit cocktails
Food: Snacks
