8 editor picks in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe's cocktail rooms split between polished hotel bars and serious craft programs, with the margarita never far away. Secreto Lounge inside Hotel St. Francis downtown runs a garden-to-glass program built around its smoked sage margarita, while Tonic on East Water Street pours seasonal classics from a small art deco room. For sheer volume, Maria's New Mexican Kitchen on the Southside shakes over 150 margaritas from a stock of 170 tequilas in a Cordova Road cantina open since 1950.
8 cocktail bar places in Santa Fe we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Santa Fe · Cocktail Bar across every city.
Drink Smoked sage margarita
Secreto Lounge is Santa Fe's most awarded cocktail room; the smoked sage margarita and garden-to-glass program live inside Hotel St.
Drink Seasonal craft cocktail menu
Tonic is the city's serious-cocktail room, an art deco intimate space pouring liquor-and-house-syrup seasonal classics on East Water Street.
Drink Maria's Special margarita (Casa Noble Crystal and Cointreau)
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.
Drink Margaritas and Mexican beer
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.
Drink Colkegan Single Malt and Wheeler's Dry Gin cocktails
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.
Drink Seasonal mezcal cocktails
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.
Drink House saisons and Belgian-style sours
Rowley brews farmhouse sours and saisons in a small Maclovia Street facility; the gastropub plates farm-to-table dinners alongside the tank lineup.
Try Bar bites and craft cocktails
Tonic is the city's late cocktail bar on East Water Street with a 1920s jazz-era room, a stiff-pour menu and bites long after most kitchens close.
