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Sabina Sabe on Cinco de Mayo 209 is named for Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina, a cocktail bar with one of the world's largest mezcal collections.
Signature drink: Sabina Sabe house cocktail
Food: Snacks and small plates
Pulqueria Jalatlaco is a bar in Jalatlaco, Oaxaca.
Pulqueria Jalatlaco on Aldama serves traditional pulques and curados (tuna, mango, apio) with a small botana, the most local-feeling drink room in the barrio.
Food program: Botana
Address: Aldama 503, Barrio de Jalatlaco, 68080 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca
Sabina Sabe on Cinco de Mayo 209 is named for Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina, a cocktail bar with one of the world's largest mezcal collections.
Signature drink: Sabina Sabe house cocktail
Food: Snacks and small plates
Selva on Macedonio Alcala is on the 50 Best Discovery list, a creative cocktail bar with Oaxacan-ingredient drinks and mezcals from small distilleries.
Signature drink: Selva cocktail with mezcal, hoja santa and Oaxacan cheese
Food: Bar snacks
Mezcaloteca on Reforma is the appointment-only library tasting room with 100-plus family-producer mezcals, opened in 2010 to educate palates on traditional.
Signature drink: Five-mezcal educational flight
Food: Water and dry snacks
In Situ on Vicente Guerrero is Ulises Torrentera's mezcaleria with 180-plus mezcals and the author often behind the bar pouring on his own flights all night.
Signature drink: Ulises Torrentera-curated flight
Food: Bar snacks
Mezcalogia on Garcia Vigil is the Casa Cortes family's El Jolgorio and Nuestra Soledad mezcaleria, with a kitchen of Oaxacan plates and 200-bottle cocktails.
Signature drink: El Jolgorio Tobala flight
Food: Oaxacan plates
Cuish on Diaz Ordaz is Felix Hernandez Monterrosa's mezcaleria since 2009, with wild-agave mezcals downstairs and a small art and live-music room upstairs.
Signature drink: Wild-agave mezcal flight
Food: Bar snacks