Tlecān

Mexico City, Mexico

No. 23 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, No. 5 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026, and winner of World's Best Spirits Selection at the 2026 Spirited Awards.

Bernardo Serna and Eli Martínez Bello, who won the 2025 Altos Bartenders' Bartender Award, built a standing-room-only mezcalería on Álvaro Obregón whose name translates from Nahuatl as "place of fire." No reservations, no seats, and a program that channels pre-Hispanic drinking traditions through thirteen mezcals sourced from small-batch makers, with emphasis on female distillers. The Paloma Blanca, carbonated clarified grapefruit, mezcal, lime, grapefruit salt, distils the philosophy into a single glass. At No. 3 on North America's 50 Best Bars and No. 20 on the World's 50 Best Bars, Tlecān burns with conviction.