Hanky Panky

Mexico City's first speakeasy—opened in 2016 behind a freezer door inside an Oaxacan food fonda—still operates under co-founders Walter Meyenberg, Gina Barbachano, and Ismael Martínez. Named after Ada Coleman's famous cocktail, the programme delivers clever twists on classics in a 1920s-aesthetic room reached through a dark hallway. The Michter's Art of Hospitality Award in 2022 and a former No. 13 global ranking confirm that Hanky Panky defined a format that the city's subsequent speakeasies have spent years trying to equal.