Cocktails, wine bars and dives: drinking in Santa Fe for grown-ups.
Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Santa Fe for grown-ups.
Secreto Lounge is Santa Fe's most awarded cocktail room; the smoked sage margarita and garden-to-glass program live inside Hotel St. Francis one block off.
Signature drink: Smoked sage margarita
Food: Bar snacks and small plates
Tonic is the city's serious-cocktail room, an art deco intimate space pouring liquor-and-house-syrup seasonal classics on East Water Street.
Signature drink: Seasonal craft cocktail menu
Food: Curated bar bites: charcuterie, conserva, artisan cheese
Maria's pours over 150 hand-shaken margaritas and stocks 170 tequilas in a Cordova Road cantina since 1950; former owner Al Lucero wrote the Margarita Book.
Signature drink: Maria's Special margarita (Casa Noble Crystal and Cointreau)
Food: Full New Mexican menu
Coyote Cafe's seasonal rooftop runs April through October above the downtown dining room; tacos, tequila and the city's most visible Plaza-edge sunset.
Signature drink: Margaritas and Mexican beer
Food: Tacos, burgers and shareable plates
Santa Fe Spirits, founded 2010 by Colin Keegan, pours locally distilled Colkegan single malt and Wheeler's dry gin in a tasting room off Galisteo on Read.
Signature drink: Colkegan Single Malt and Wheeler's Dry Gin cocktails
Food: Light bites
CAVA functions as the Eldorado Hotel's living-room bar, with craft cocktails and live music six blocks west of the Plaza on San Francisco Street.
Signature drink: Seasonal mezcal cocktails
Food: Tapas-style plates
Rowley brews farmhouse sours and saisons in a small Maclovia Street facility; the gastropub plates farm-to-table dinners alongside the tank lineup.
Signature drink: House saisons and Belgian-style sours
Food: Farm-to-table gastropub plates