16 editor picks in Mexico City.
Mexico City has become a serious cocktail city, ranging from world-list bars to the older cantina and mezcaleria, spread across Roma Norte, Juarez and Centro Historico. Licoreria Limantour leads the Roma Norte modern scene, while Handshake Speakeasy and Hanky Panky anchor Juarez. Centro Historico holds the heritage rooms, from Salon Tenampa and La Opera Bar to the mezcal at Bosforo and the pulque at Pulqueria Las Duelistas.
16 cocktail bar places in Mexico City we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Mexico City · Cocktail Bar across every city.
Drink Margarita Al Pastor
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.
Drink Old Fashioned
Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City is the Juarez Amberes Street cocktail temple ranked No.
Drink Classic and original cocktails
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.
Drink Tobala mezcal flight
Bosforo in Mexico City is the Centro Historico mezcaleria on Luis Moya, a velvet-curtain candle-lit room with 50-plus Oaxacan artisanal mezcales.
Drink Espadin and Tobala flight
La Clandestina in Mexico City is the Condesa mezcaleria on Alvaro Obregon, a 15-year-old room with 25 artisanal Oaxacan mezcales arranged like.
Drink Tequila and pulque
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.
Drink Tequila reposado
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.
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.
Drink Mexican spirit cocktails
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.
Drink Pineapple Cobbler
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.
Drink Darwin-themed cocktails
Baltra Bar in Mexico City is the Condesa speakeasy on Iztaccihuatl by Limantour's Benjamin Padron, a Darwin-and-Galapagos-themed cocktail bar.
Drink Mexican fermented beverages and agave distillates
Tlecan in Mexico City is the Roma Norte pre-Hispanic agave-spirit bar on Alvaro Obregon, North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 No.
Drink Tequila and pulque
La No.
Pulqueria Las Duelistas is colorful 1902 centro pulqueria most tourists pass, pouring 45 flavored pulques and one of the city's most painted interiors.
