Speakeasy cocktail barjuarezTue-Sat 18:00-02:00, closed Sun-Mon
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, an Art Deco speakeasy with reservation-only entry.
Signature drink: Old Fashioned
Food: Bar snacks
Speakeasy cocktail barjuarezTue-Sat 17:00-02:00, Sun 17:00-00:00, closed Mon
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.
Signature drink: Classic and original cocktails
Food: Snacks
Mezcaleriacentro-historicoTue-Sat 18:00-02:00, closed Sun-Mon
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
MezcaleriacondesaTue-Sat 19:00-02:00, closed Sun-Mon
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
Mariachi cantinacentro-historicoDaily 13:00-03:00
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
Historic cantinacentro-historicoMon-Sat 13:00-23:30, Sun 13:00-18:00
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