Bars in Mexico City

Café de Tacuba is Mexico City's most historically significant restaurant and cantina — an establishment operating since 1912 in the heart of the Centro Histórico, serving traditional Mexican cuisine in surroundings of extraordinary colonial-era significance. Café de Tacuba's remarkable 110+ year history and its extraordinary preservation of traditional Mexican culinary and drinking culture create a cantina of genuine Mexican cultural heritage significance.

La Clandestina is Mexico City's most beloved mezcal bar — a Roma Norte institution serving outstanding artisanal mezcal in a casual setting that reflects Mexico City's extraordinary creative community. Mexico City's remarkable mezcal culture (it has become one of the world's most important destinations for serious mezcal enthusiasts) and La Clandestina's exceptional curated selection create a bar of genuine Mexican agave culture community significance.

La Polar is Mexico City's most beloved pulquería — a cantina presenting the most ancient alcoholic beverage in the Americas, pulque (fermented maguey sap), in an authentic working-class environment of genuine Mexico City community character. Pulque's extraordinary pre-Columbian heritage (it was the sacred drink of the Aztec gods) and La Polar's remarkable preservation of this ancient drinking tradition create a bar of genuine Mexican indigenous cultural heritage significance.

Limantour is Latin America's most acclaimed cocktail bar — consistently ranked among the best bars in the world (Top 50 World's Best Bars multiple years). Limantour's extraordinary cocktail innovation, its remarkable incorporation of Mexican ingredients (mezcal, tepache, chilhuacle), and its transformative influence on the Mexico City cocktail scene create a bar of singular Latin American cocktail culture significance.

Mexico City's rooftop bar scene in the Centro Histórico serves one of the world's most remarkable UNESCO World Heritage urban centers — a colonial city center where the extraordinary Aztec ruins beneath the Templo Mayor, outstanding 16th-century Spanish colonial architecture, and vibrant contemporary culture create a bar environment of unique American civilizational heritage significance. Mexico City's Centro Histórico is literally built on the ruins of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital, making it one of the most historically layered urban spaces on Earth.