The Best Places to Drink in Bogotá

The drinks list at this Bogotá cocktail bar is built around Territorio, a range of house-distilled spirits inspired by Colombia's ecosystems, each one mapped to a different landscape. Laura Espinosa, former sommelier at the celebrated Leo next door, runs the room and the project. The cocktails read deceptively simple on the menu, which is exactly the point. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

A narrow, greenery-lined courtyard pulls you off a Chapinero street and into what feels less like a bar than a sun-warmed garden patio where no one is in a hurry. The cocktails lean approachable and cooling, built from familiar ingredients at a subway-tiled bar, which pairs well with the unhurried crowd lingering over desserts and conversation. A spot for a long, easy afternoon drink that somehow extends into evening.

Polished vintage wood, red and gold light, and low-key beats set the mood at this intimate cocktail bar tucked into Zona G, Chapinero's upscale dining corridor. The drinks lean creative in ways that reward curiosity, pairing rum with chocolate and bitter aperitif, or gin with kefir and shiitake, without making a big fuss about it. A neighborhood place that happens to have a neighborhood worth traveling across the city for.