Comala ★ 4.0
Comala on Pino Suarez is a Centro courtyard restaurant-bar with all-day Oaxacan plates and a mezcal-and-cocktail bar that runs to 1am most nights of the week.
Signature drink: Mezcal cocktail and craft beer
Food: Oaxacan plates
La Casa del Mezcal is a bar in Centro Historico, Oaxaca.
La Casa del Mezcal on Flores Magon is the 1935 cantina behind Mercado Benito Juarez, with a long mezcal counter and old-cantina feel in the heart of Centro.
Food program: Cantina bar snacks
Address: Flores Magon 209, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
Comala on Pino Suarez is a Centro courtyard restaurant-bar with all-day Oaxacan plates and a mezcal-and-cocktail bar that runs to 1am most nights of the week.
Signature drink: Mezcal cocktail and craft beer
Food: Oaxacan plates
Oaxaca Brewing Co on Tinoco y Palacios is the city's flagship craft taproom from two Baja-California-trained brothers, with stouts, IPAs, fruit ales.
Signature drink: Oaxacan stout
Food: Bar snacks and pizza
Oaxaco Cerveceria on Allende is a small Centro taproom with house IPAs, pulque-cerveza and a wood-fired pizza kitchen, run by a husband-and-wife team.
Signature drink: Pulque-cerveza and IPAs
Food: Pizza and snacks
El Destilado on Cinco de Mayo runs a long mezcal and Mexican-sake pairing alongside the tasting menu, with one of Oaxaca's deepest fermented-drink lists.
Signature drink: Mezcal pairing
Food: Nine-course tasting
Sabina Sabe also runs as a late-night Centro cocktail bar with multiple drinking rooms, a Mazatec-inspired cocktail program and music past midnight.
Signature drink: Maria Sabina cocktail
Food: Bar snacks
Neta Tasting Room on Cinco de Mayo 506 in Jalatlaco is the official Neta Spirits showroom, with mezcal flights, small plates and barrio-evening rhythm.
Signature drink: Neta Spirits flight
Food: Snacks
Comala on Pino Suarez is a Centro courtyard restaurant-bar with all-day Oaxacan plates and a mezcal-and-cocktail bar that runs to 1am most nights of the week.
Signature drink: Mezcal cocktail and craft beer
Food: Oaxacan plates
Oaxaca Brewing Co on Tinoco y Palacios is the city's flagship craft taproom from two Baja-California-trained brothers, with stouts, IPAs, fruit ales.
Signature drink: Oaxacan stout
Food: Bar snacks and pizza
Oaxaco Cerveceria on Allende is a small Centro taproom with house IPAs, pulque-cerveza and a wood-fired pizza kitchen, run by a husband-and-wife team.
Signature drink: Pulque-cerveza and IPAs
Food: Pizza and snacks
El Destilado on Cinco de Mayo runs a long mezcal and Mexican-sake pairing alongside the tasting menu, with one of Oaxaca's deepest fermented-drink lists.
Signature drink: Mezcal pairing
Food: Nine-course tasting
Sabina Sabe also runs as a late-night Centro cocktail bar with multiple drinking rooms, a Mazatec-inspired cocktail program and music past midnight.
Signature drink: Maria Sabina cocktail
Food: Bar snacks