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.
Food program: Antojitos and Jalisco dishes
Address: Plaza Garibaldi 12, Centro Historico, Cuauhtemoc, 06010 Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
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
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
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 courtyard with seasonal-fruit-driven mixology.
Signature drink: Pineapple Cobbler
Food: Snacks
Baltra Bar in Mexico City is the Condesa speakeasy on Iztaccihuatl by Limantour's Benjamin Padron, a Darwin-and-Galapagos-themed cocktail bar with an annually rotating menu inspired by science.
Signature drink: Darwin-themed cocktails
Food: Bar snacks
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 distillates from female producers.
Signature drink: Mexican fermented beverages and agave distillates
Food: Endemic ingredient snacks
