Handshake Speakeasy

Mexico City, Mexico

No. 2 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, No. 12 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026, and winner of World's Best Cocktail Menu at the 2024 Spirited Awards.

Ninety-minute seatings move through a sixteen-drink menu where preparations run up to forty-eight hours: the Mexi-Thai fat-washes tequila with coconut oil and finishes with makrut lime leaf distillate and clarified tomato cordial. The black-and-gold room trades on intimacy and precision in equal measure. No bar in the Western Hemisphere operates at a higher level of sustained excellence.