The 89 Best Places to Drink and Stay in Mexico City
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The best places to drink and stay in Mexico City, according to the experts: The 50, The Pinnacle Guide, and MexBest have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Handshake Speakeasy comes out on top.
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Tlecān and Bar Mauro hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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Rank 1. Handshake Speakeasy
Mexican Cocktail Bar
The entrance is a secret door, which is either thrilling or exhausting depending on your mood. Once inside, Handshake is a dimly lit speakeasy in Juárez where the cocktail program leans heavily on vintage spirits and the whole room feels like someone's very expensive idea of the 1920s. It holds the number two spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list, which the regulars probably know and definitely don't mention.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #2 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 2 Pins
- The 50 The 50: #12 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #2 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- The 50 #12 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 2. Tlecān
Mexican
The name means "place of fire" in Nahuatl, and the Roma Norte agave bar commits to that fully: monochrome earthy materials, sparse dramatic lighting, burning incense, and a design meant to feel like walking into an ancient tomb. It's moody in the way that actually works, where the atmosphere doesn't fight the drinking. North America's 50 Best Bars ranked it fifth, and The World's 50 Best Bars placed it at 23.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #23 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #5 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Bartender: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Eli Martínez Bello
- The 50 #23 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #5 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- MexBest Mejor Bartender: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Eli Martínez Bello
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Rank 3. Bar Mauro
Italian Cocktail Bar
Black-and-white photos of a man named Mauro watch over the room while his grandsons run the bar below him, which tells you most of what you need to know about Bar Mauro. This Italian cocktail bar in Roma Norte pours vermouth and amari the way Milan used to, somewhere between a classic aperitivo hour and a very considered modern lounge. Ranked second on North America's 50 Best Bars, it also holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: Campari One To Watch Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #54 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #2 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 Campari One To Watch Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #54 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #2 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 2 Pins
- The 50 The 50: #13 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- The 50 #13 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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The awards
- The 50 The 50: #78 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #48 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The 50 #78 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #48 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 5. El Tigre Silencioso
Mexican
Stone-block courtyard, old-growth trees, ivy-wrapped columns, and a wrap-around terrace before you've even looked at the menu. El Tigre Silencioso is a cantina in Roma Norte where the setting does a lot of the talking and the kitchen answers back with creative Mexican cooking that likes unexpected combinations. The open kitchen and corner bar keep things loose, and the crowd tends to dress like they've been here before.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- AAA Three Diamonds
- MexBest Mejor Restaurante Nuevo: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 5. Kaito del Valle
Japanese Cocktail Bar
Neon kanji on the walls, sake threading through nearly every cocktail on the menu, custom glassware on every table: this Japanese cocktail bar in Juárez commits to the bit without feeling like a theme park. Sit down, order something from a list that leans hard on East Asian flavors, and let okonomiyaki or a katsu sando arrive alongside. It landed at number 25 on North America's 50 Best Bars in 2026.
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 2 Pins
- The 50 The 50: #25 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- The 50 #25 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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- The 50 The 50: #52 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #20 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor bartender: Ganador · Premios MexBest · José Luis León
- The 50 #52 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 #20 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- MexBest Mejor bartender: Ganador · Premios MexBest · José Luis León
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Cesar Pelli's Torre Libertad glass tower on the Paseo de la Reforma is a hard building to miss, and the St. Regis fills its upper floors with the kind of service that other hotels quietly gave up on years ago. Every guest gets a dedicated butler around the clock, the staff learns your name fast, and the rooms come with deep soaking tubs and city views that stretch to the mountains on a clear day. A Forbes Four Star hotel.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The awards
- The 50 The 50: #60 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- The 50 #60 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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A courtyard garden with a classical fountain sits at the center of this Reforma luxury hotel, giving the whole place the quiet logic of a colonial estate dropped into one of the city's busiest corridors. Rooms are calm and neutral, bathrooms run to sunken tubs and Floris products, and the pool deck overlooks a second tucked-away courtyard. Fifty Mils downstairs has its own following. Forbes Four Star.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- The 50 The 50: 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
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The name means "alcoves," and the hotel takes that literally, keeping rooms quietly private and exquisitely unhurried in the middle of Polanco's very well-heeled shopping corridor. Yabu Pushelberg did the interiors, which means monochrome whites and blacks, good wood, and a faint whiff of Manhattan confidence that somehow doesn't feel out of place. A boutique luxury hotel with a spa and a restaurant on-site, and a Forbes Four Star rating to its name.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Floors 37 through 47 of one of the city's tallest towers, with floor-to-ceiling windows aimed straight at Reforma Avenue and Chapultepec Park. This luxury hotel puts you so far above the neighboring skyline that Mexico City stops feeling chaotic and starts feeling almost legible. The spa, indoor pool, and a rooftop cocktail bar keep you happily on-property, though the whole point is the view that greets you every time you look up.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Two houses, one Neo-colonial from the forties and a modernist addition next door, were joined and turned into 19 rooms across from Lincoln Park in one of the city's most polished neighborhoods. The boutique hotel holds a Michelin two-key distinction and reads like a private home where someone had genuinely good taste, with marble bathrooms and a curated mix of objects across eras. A spa, a serious breakfast, and afternoon tea fill the gaps where a restaurant would be.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Keys
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The Alexander sits inside Torre Virreyes, the inverted-triangle skyscraper that looms over Bosque de Chapultepec like it won an architecture argument. This 26-suite hotel holds a Michelin Key and leans hard into international luxury: Italian furniture, Swedish bath products, Bang & Olufsen sound systems, and a caviar bar that apparently no one thought to open in Mexico City before now. Floor-to-ceiling windows keep the park and skyline permanently in frame.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A 40-floor tower on the Paseo de la Reforma, the Sofitel plants its French flag firmly in Mexico City and then, to its credit, actually looks around. The rooms lean into the view through floor-to-ceiling windows, with warm modernist interiors and automated curtains softening the high-rise drama. Downstairs there's a wood-fired Mediterranean-Mexican kitchen and a French-meets-Mexican rooftop bar, which is exactly as audacious as it sounds. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 17. Hanky-Panky
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Gina Barbachano
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- MexBest Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Gina Barbachano
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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A boutique luxury hotel in Roma built from bricks shipped over from England for the original Bank of London & Mexico director, which is an origin story that takes some nerve to live up to. The name is about as much brick as you'll find; inside, the palette runs to soothing neutrals and Belle Époque bones refreshed with parquet floors and Deco mirrors. Rooftop suites have private patios, and there's a spa, a gym, and several bars and restaurants on site. Michelin awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A rose-pink Belle Époque mansion in Roma Norte that somehow pulls off minimalist interiors without losing the old-world atmosphere. This boutique hotel holds its Michelin Key, and the bones of the place do the work: wooden floors, handmade Oaxacan rugs, marble bathrooms, and a leafy rooftop made for cold drinks after a long afternoon in the galleries. An agave lounge and a Japanese tea room round out a property that refuses to be simple.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A 16-room boutique hotel in Roma Norte designed by Alberto Kalach, with art woven into every corner: latticework, sculpture, and photography fill the common spaces as earnestly as they do the guest rooms. Breakfast comes from Rosetta Bakery, there's an honesty bar, and a Street Food Concierge stands ready to help you navigate the neighborhood like an insider. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Five rooms in a century-old Roma mansion, each named after its dominant color, doesn't sound like much until you're standing in a garden with orange trees the housekeeper planted decades ago. This boutique guest house holds a Michelin Key, runs a daily cocktail hour, and tucks a small cooking school around the back. The architect's modern addition gets covered in architecture magazines, which is either a selling point or a warning, depending on your taste.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Two entrances, two different worlds: one opens onto the boutique calm of Polanco, the other onto Reforma Avenue and the National Auditorium. This luxury hotel has been around forever and a recent renovation brought overhauled public spaces and a small cluster of new bars and restaurants, including a mezcal room and a cocktail bar inspired by the old railway that once cut through the neighborhood. Rooms run the expected JW register, polished and quietly serious.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Eight suites above a concept store in a 1920s Roma Norte townhouse, La Valise earns its Michelin Key by doing the opposite of everything the big hotels are doing. Each suite has its own logic: one has a leather swing on the patio and a terracotta dog sculpture inside, another rolls the bed out onto an open-air terrace. The aesthetic is genuinely designed rather than decorated, which in a boutique hotel of this size is a meaningful distinction.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Five rooms, each named for its single colorway, sit above a ground floor that doubles as gallery, pop-up shop, and event space in this boutique hotel in Roma Norte. The mansion's original stained glass and vaulted ceilings stay intact, while upstairs the Celeste room arranges cobalt armchairs in a conversation pit and Musgo leans deep into midcentury botanical. A Michelin Key hotel, and one that books out fast around Mexico City Art Week.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A four-room boutique hotel inside a turn-of-the-century mansion in Roma, which is the part of Mexico City where people go to feel like they're in Lisbon. Each room has its own name and character, the style is contemporary without announcing itself as such, and the concierge seems to have a standing reservation at every worthwhile table in the neighborhood. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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An Art Deco building across from the Garden of the Republic of Lebanon houses this 12-suite luxury boutique hotel in Polanco, one of Mexico City's most manicured neighborhoods. Each floor has its own private kitchen and social space, and the larger residences run to full chef's kitchens and dining rooms, which is either very convenient or a gentle reminder that some people travel differently than you do. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Seven suites, each named for a natural element, fill this Condesa boutique hotel with whitewashed walls, carved wood, and linen so soft it feels like a design decision. Mexican designer Roberta Maceda built the place around the same quiet restraint as her clothing line, and it shows. Breakfast goes out under a guava tree in the courtyard. The rooftop is guests-only, which at sunset, with Baja natural wines in hand, feels like a reasonable trade. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Behind wrought-iron gates on a quiet Polanco block, this intimate design hotel occupies a stately 1940s mansion where a double staircase and original stained glass give way to 20 rooms dressed in marble, bold color, and whimsical nature-themed details, from butterfly wallpaper to antler mounts above the beds. Suites add freestanding tubs. Breakfast lands in the garden, and the terrace sits level with the palms. Chapultepec Park is nearby, which feels apt. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A grand piano anchors the main hall of this 26-suite boutique hotel in Polanco, where a 1940s mansion has been dressed in chandeliers, wrought iron staircases, ornate moldings, and guest rooms so chromatic and pattern-heavy they make maximalism look modest. Suites vary wildly, some with balconies, some with bathtubs, one with an outdoor jacuzzi. It holds a Michelin Key. The vibe is less "boutique hotel" and more "eccentric relative's manor," which is mostly a compliment.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Oscar Wilde-themed rooms in the heart of Polanco, which tracks: the neighborhood has spent decades perfecting the art of being seen. This boutique hotel leans into exec-chic without apology, with four room categories named for Wilde's characters, parquet floors, Egyptian cotton, and in-room espresso machines. The common areas feel like a members' club someone actually thought through. It holds a Michelin Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A concrete Brutalist tower one block from Paseo de la Reforma, Volga is a design hotel that earns its Michelin Key through sheer aesthetic commitment. Contemporary art fills every corner, and the architecture doesn't quietly step aside for it; the two argue pleasantly. Rooms are subtly luxe, spa treatments come to you, and a small rooftop pool sits on top of it all. The on-site restaurant is a Mediterranean concept from a Japanese-Mexican group, which is very Mexico City.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Nine suites, each named for a native fruit or herb, fill this design-forward boutique hotel in Lomas de Chapultepec, the kind of upscale residential pocket where a hotel feels mildly out of place. UMA Casa leans into that, reading more like a well-traveled friend's house than anywhere with a front desk. Lime-washed walls, midcentury furniture, and high arched windows run throughout, while the rooftop terrace handles both breakfast and sunset drinks. It holds a Michelin Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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The landmark next door is known locally as "el Pantalón" for its trouser-shaped silhouette, which tells you something about the neighborhood's sense of humor. This boutique hotel in Bosques de las Lomas plays it straighter inside: lobby stacked with books, striking art, and a spa built around hydrotherapy. Business travelers coming from nearby Santa Fe tend to discover the wellness side quickly, and then keep coming back for it.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Rank 34. Café Tacobar
Mexican Cocktail Bar
Street tacos and cocktails share equal billing here, which tells you everything about what kind of place this is. The bar runs as a coffee shop through the day before settling into a livelier cocktail spot come nightfall, with the Roma Norte crowd packed in close enough that it genuinely feels like someone's living room, just with better drinks. Bartender Khristian de la Torre's menu is the reason to linger past the tacos.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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A boutique hotel tucked above a Porfirian-era arcade in Roma Norte, which is either charming context or a lot of foot traffic depending on your tolerance for it. Rooms are minimalist but warm, with natural wood surfaces, deep green accents, and soundproof windows doing quiet, important work against the street below. There's almost no hotel lobby to speak of, but the terrace lets guests order from the restaurants downstairs, so the building earns its keep twice.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 34. Licorería Limantour
Cocktail Bar
The art deco bones of this two-story cocktail bar on Álvaro Obregón set the scene before you've ordered a thing. Limantour has been pulling serious drinkers to Roma Norte for years, and the downstairs bar fills fast with a crowd that has opinions about mezcal. Cocktails lean into regional Mexican flavors without making a big announcement about it. The 50 Best Bars list has been a regular stop for them, which tracks.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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Absinthe gets the louche, ceremonial treatment it deserves at this intimate cocktail bar above natural wine spot Loup Bar in Roma Norte. The rotating menu runs to about a dozen drinks, swapped out weekly, or the bartender will just make you something. New Orleans French Quarter is the aesthetic, which sounds like a stretch until you're inside and it isn't. A Discovery from The 50 Best.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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The rooftop pool sits seventeen floors above Condesa, which is either very high or just high enough, depending on how you feel about Mexico City sprawling out beneath you. This Hyatt-flagged boutique hotel takes its design cues from Mexican modernist Luis Barragán, filtered through Art Deco, and the result is a large-scale property that wears its ambitions lightly. Condesa is already a good neighborhood for this sort of thing, and the Andaz raises the ceiling considerably.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 39. Bijou Drinkery Room
Modern Cocktail Bar
The stained-glass bar runs clear, ruby, and emerald, a nod to the three "jewels" in the Bijou cocktail that gave this speakeasy its name. Bartenders here work from a Rubik's Cube menu, literally spinning the cube to unlock new flavor combinations each session, which sounds like a gimmick until you watch them pull it off. A 50 Best Discovery pick and a Spirited Awards regional honoree, it's the kind of place that earns its theatrics.
The awards
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 39. Café Arixi
Cocktail Bar
The awards
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Eight rooms in a 20th-century Roma Norte house, Casa Goliana sits somewhere between boutique hotel and very stylish bed and breakfast, and it leans into that ambiguity. Rooms split the difference between contemporary chic and bohemian clutter, some with roll-top tubs, all with tiled bathrooms and art that looks chosen rather than purchased by the meter. Breakfast is the only meal, which makes sense: you're a short walk from half of Roma's restaurant scene.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A converted mansion on a quiet Roma Norte street with only five rooms, Casa Seis Siete is the kind of boutique hotel that makes you forget you're in a hotel. Period architecture shares wall space with contemporary art, and each suite is styled close enough to a real apartment that you half-expect a plant you're responsible for. The top-floor suite has a terrace with a dining table. Staff know the neighborhood cold, which matters since breakfast is the only meal served here.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A four-room bed and breakfast in La Condesa that feels like sleeping inside a very good architecture monograph. The firm behind the interiors has a thing for mid-century wood paneling, floor-to-ceiling glass, and furnishings spare enough to make the room feel twice its size. The neighborhood does its part too, sitting at the edge of one of the city's most walkable, tree-lined, cafe-dense corners.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The triangular rooftop terrace, with a sushi bar and an atmosphere that somehow reads more countryside than megalopolis, is reason enough to stay here. This boutique hotel occupies a converted apartment block in La Condesa, the leafy, Art Nouveau corner of Mexico City that tourists who only know the Centro Histórico haven't found yet. Interiors by India Mahdavi lean into color, chocolate brown and moss green, where lesser design hotels would just paint everything white.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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On the southern edge of Mexico City, steps from the Bosque de Tlalpan urban forest, this boutique hotel occupies a listed 19th-century hacienda where period architectural details meet crisp contemporary design and work by local artists. The outdoor patio, ringed with orange trees, is the place to land with a cocktail. No restaurant on-site, but the team will point you in the right direction. It holds a Michelin Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A converted 1930s mansion in Colonia Condesa, Casa Cuenca fits ten rooms into a space that still feels like someone's very well-designed home. Custom built-ins, handmade tiles, and woven rugs lean into modernist Mexican design without veering into museum territory. Some rooms have private terraces; the Presidencial suite overlooks the courtyard. The bar pours artisanal mezcal, the on-site bistro draws a crowd, and the neighborhood does the rest.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A converted 1950s apartment block in Condesa, Hotel Dama is a boutique hotel that leans into its mid-century bones rather than apologizing for them. The sunken library lounge with mod built-in sofas and pre-Hispanic artwork sets the tone; the jacaranda-shaded rooftop terrace with an all-day café keeps it. Rooms have checkered marble floors, bespoke wooden furniture, and private balconies, which is the kind of thing that makes you want to stay an extra night.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A 1947 apartment building just off Parque México, remade by a Texas hospitality group into a boutique hotel that somehow doesn't feel like a Texas hospitality group made it. Rooms run coral and white with living plants and Kassatex linens; some have kitchenettes, others balconies, and the top-floor suites spill onto a terrace. Lounge Fernando handles cocktails and tacos through the evening, and the rooftop does breakfast, co-working, and general lingering.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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A mural by Ara Starck greets you in every room of this 183-room boutique hotel in Condesa, which leans into art as architecture rather than decoration. The lines are minimal but the colors argue back, and even the smaller rooms run generous. Downstairs, the flower shop doubles as a café and wine bar, which feels about right for a hotel where the rooftop bar and an open-air aperitivo spot round out the options before you've even unpacked.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A row of potted cacti marks the entrance to this boutique hotel on a quiet Roma Norte block, and the colonial revival bones inside, spiral Baroque columns, terracotta floors, arched windows, do a lot of the decorating. No restaurant, no pool, no spa, but a keycode instead of a front desk, and common spaces that make it easy to forget you don't live here. The rooftop and courtyard handle morning coffee or evening mezcal before you wander one of the city's most stylish neighborhoods.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A colonial house standing on the footprint of an Aztec ceremonial temple, directly across from the Zócalo, restored by a team of architects, stonemasons, and blacksmiths who apparently took the job seriously. This tiny boutique hotel has just three rooms and suites arranged around a stone-arched courtyard, each outfitted in hand-carved furniture, beamed ceilings, and parquet floors. The terraces are generous enough that the whole thing feels like borrowing a very well-connected friend's Mexico City townhouse.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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On the third floor of a renovated downtown building, with Alameda Central park directly outside the windows, Chaya is a boutique bed and breakfast that quietly splits the difference between a stylish hotel and somewhere you'd actually want to live. Rooms go raw concrete and warm wood, with king beds that suggest someone thought seriously about sleep. Breakfast comes daily and made to order, Mexican classics included. The mezcal bar is downstairs, which is either a warning or a selling point.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A 25-room boutique hotel in Centro Histórico where the building itself has a story, this was once the studio of legendary photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, whose work still hangs throughout. Grupo Habita wrapped Shaker-minimalist rooms around a colonial courtyard, layering Oaxacan textiles against weathered old stone. The rooftop pool and bar are where the place loosens up. Down below, a barbershop and fashion boutique keep things from feeling too hushed.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A 17th-century palace a short walk from the Plaza de la Constitución, this boutique hotel from the Habita group keeps the original high ceilings and weathered period details while layering in dark tiled floors, raw wood furnishings, and bathroom screens that read almost Moorish. The result is quietly contemporary without being cold. The rooftop lounge tends to pull a stylish crowd, which in a Habita property is basically a law of physics.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A frosted-glass shell wraps what was once an apartment block in Polanco, so that by day the building looks like a block of ice and by night an oversized paper lantern. This boutique hotel keeps the minimalism going inside, with stark white rooms, hardwood floors, and Eames-style chairs. The rooftop bar draws Mexico City's media and creative crowd, and a lap pool occupies the terrace below it.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Six suites tucked inside a working design museum a short walk from the Zócalo, which tells you almost everything about the kind of hotel Mumedi is. Each room treats the building's colonial bones as raw material, pairing historical architecture with contemporary Mexican craft and design objects that are very much for sale. The result is a boutique hotel that functions as a living showroom, which sounds gimmicky until you're sleeping inside it and it doesn't feel gimmicky at all.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Two blocks from the Zócalo, behind the walls of a grand old downtown building, this upscale boutique hotel from the Curio Collection keeps the scale of the city at arm's length. Inside, clean contemporary lines meet rich colors and serious artwork, including a proper art gallery and a vinyl library. An outdoor pool and multiple restaurants round it out, among them two from celebrated chef Daniel Ovadía.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Glass and sunlight flood the lobby of this Polanco hotel, where the guest rooms go black carpet and cherry red rather than the beige-and-cream corporate default. The W plays deliberate contrast to the buttoned-up business hotels on either side, and the lobby bar pulls in dressed-up locals alongside whoever famous is passing through town. Rooms are sleek and modern, and the Whatever/Whenever service promise is taken more seriously here than you might expect.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 63. Hanky Panky
Speakeasy
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- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 63. Less Is More
Cocktail Bar
The More Room runs on cocktail mathematics: every drink from the adjoining café gets reimagined through actual formulae, so ordering here feels vaguely like a physics exam you want to take. This dimmer, livelier side of Less Is More is a sophisticated cocktail bar in Roma Norte, and for the arithmetically allergic, the menu section called Less Thinking More Drinking is a genuine diplomatic gesture. A regional honoree at the Spirited Awards two years running.
The awards
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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A basement cocktail bar in Colonia Juárez where the staircase down feels like a commitment. Hanging plants, low light, and a shamanistic theme drawn from pre-Hispanic Mexico set the mood, and the drinks follow through with smoke and botanical ingredients that treat plants as something close to medicine. The 50 Discovery named it, and the crowd that fills it seems to know they've found something worth keeping quiet about.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 70. Rayo
Cocktail Bar
The name comes from the lightning bolt that, in Aztec myth, struck an agave plant and cooked it into the first pulque. That creation story shapes the whole program at this cocktail bar in Roma Norte, where the drinks lean heavily on Mexican spirits, mezcal and its relatives, built into cocktails that are meant to carry a narrative. Small sharing plates keep things going, but the spirits are the point.
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 71. Brujas
Mexican Cocktail Bar
The building is called Casa de las Brujas, House of the Witches, and the cocktail bar inside leans all the way into that. Dim, esoteric, and intimate, this female-led bar works through a rotating menu rooted in Mexican herbalism, with ingredients prepared in a small lab on site and drinks named for Latin American writers and activists. A genuinely witchy place that earns the word.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Daniela Negrete Leal
- MexBest MexBest: Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- MexBest Mejor Bartender: Nominados · Premios MexBest · Daniela Negrete Leal
- MexBest Best of the Best: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The jukebox still sits beside the cocktail bar, the red lights are still dim, and the pool table is still upstairs on the mezzanine. Cananea is a cantina inside a hotel in Juárez, where the bar has been around forever but now runs a Sonoran-leaning menu of chivichangas and dried meat alongside classic margaritas, gimlets, and mezcal spritzes. It draws the kind of crowd that stays much later than planned.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 71. Hiya
Japanese
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 71. Loup Bar
Natural Wine Bar
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
- MexBest Mejor Wine Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The 22 Best Restaurants In Roma, Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Wine Bar: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 71. Oropel
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
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Rank 71. Ticuchi
Oaxacan
The entrance opens onto a comal set into the kitchen, so the smoke hits you before you've found a seat. Enrique Olvera's mezcal-and-snacks bar in Polanco leans Oaxacan, with a drinks list that runs from tequila through bacanora and sotol into rare mezcals most places wouldn't stock. The food is mostly vegetables and small bites, the kind of snacky, shareable things designed to give you a reason to order one more pour.
The awards
- MexBest MexBest: Mejor Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Bars in Mexico City
- MexBest Mejor Bar: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants in Mexico City
- The Infatuation The Best Bars in Mexico City
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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Rank 87. Bar Las Brujas
Cocktail Bar
The building looks like a face, the peaked roof a witch's hat, the windows two wide eyes staring down Colonia Roma. The cocktail bar inside leans into all of that, with an all-women team turning Mexico's native botanicals into drinks that feel less like cocktails and more like something brewed. The crowd tends toward the architecturally curious who then find a reason to stay for a second round.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide