Balcon del Zocalo in Mexico City sits on the Zocalo Central Hotel on Avenida 5 de Mayo, a glass-walled terrace facing the Cathedral and the Palacio Nacional with contemporary Mexican plates by chef Pepe Salinas and an extensive mezcal list.
Address: Avenida 5 de Mayo 61, Centro, Cuauhtemoc, 06000 Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City sits on Calle Amberes in Juarez behind an unmarked door 13, ranked No. 2 on the 2025 Worlds 50 Best Bars and Best Bar in North America, with a Gatsby ground floor and a louder basement, all run by Walter Meyenberg's culinary-cocktail team.
Licoreria Limantour in Mexico City on Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Roma Norte is the two-storey art-deco cocktail room overseen by Jose Luis Leon, a fixture on the Worlds 50 Best Bars list since 2014 and No. 32 in 2024, with a new backroom drinks-library called Licoreria.
Hanky Panky in Mexico City on Turin in Juarez is the speakeasy Walter Meyenberg opened in 2016 behind the kitchen of a small Oaxacan fonda, the city's first in the format, with a classic Twelve Wonders of Mixology menu and No. 35 on the 2025 North America 50 Best.
Tlecan in Mexico City on Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Roma Norte is Eli Martinez Bello's agave-spirits room, the name meaning place of fire in Nahuatl, sourcing mezcal, bacanora, sotol, pox and raicilla direct from producers, ranked No. 23 on the 2025 Worlds 50 Best Bars.
Maison Artemisia in Mexico City sits above Loup natural-wine bar on Calle Tonala in Roma Norte, a 2013 cocktail room in a 19th-century townhouse specialising in absinthe, botanical spirits and Mexican distillates with house-bottled Absinthe Maison Artemisia from France.
Felina in Mexico City on Calle Ometusco in Hipodromo Condesa is the tucked-away mid-century room with rum-led cocktails, mid-century furniture and obscure soul on the playlist, with a regular crowd of regulars who treat it like a Condesa living room.