Baltra Bar

Mexico City, Mexico

No. 78 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, No. 48 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026, and No. 12 on the 2024 Shaker Awards Top 30 Bares de México.

José Luis León, who also oversees Licorería Limantour, runs this Galápagos-themed Hipódromo bar as an informal counterpoint to its sibling. Grey couches, light wooden tables, and Charles Darwin paraphernalia, vintage maps, butterfly lithographs, taxidermy, create a living-room warmth that encourages lingering. The seasonally evolving menu takes experimental liberties that Limantour's established identity does not permit. Ranked No. 20 on North America's 50 Best Bars, Baltra operates as the creative laboratory of León's expanding empire.