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.
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.
Secreto Lounge at Hotel St. Francis ★ 4.6
downtown · 210 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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.
Tonic ★ 4.5
downtown · 103 East Water Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tonic is the city's serious-cocktail room, an art deco intimate space pouring liquor-and-house-syrup seasonal classics on East Water Street.
Maria's New Mexican Kitchen Margarita Bar ★ 4.5
southside · 555 West Cordova Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505
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.
Coyote Rooftop Cantina ★ 4.3
downtown · 132 West Water Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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.
Santa Fe Spirits Downtown Tasting Room ★ 4.4
downtown · 308 Read Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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.
CAVA Santa Fe at Eldorado Hotel ★ 4.2
downtown · 309 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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.
Rowley Farmhouse Ales Pub ★ 4.6
agua fria · 1405 Maclovia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Rowley brews farmhouse sours and saisons in a small Maclovia Street facility; the gastropub plates farm-to-table dinners alongside the tank lineup.
Tonic ★ 4.5
downtown · 103 East Water Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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.