Oaxaca City
This swanky tasting room is by far the best place in the city to visit if you want to learn about mezcal. Not only can the staff here teach you about how…
Oaxaca City
This swanky tasting room is by far the best place in the city to visit if you want to learn about mezcal. Not only can the staff here teach you about how…
Oaxaca City
Take a vague Wild West theme, the cool menace of Reservoir Dogs and the appeal of hip-shaking cumbia sounds (music originating from Colombia) and you've…
Oaxaca City
So good they named it twice, this clean-lined corner cafe could just as well be named 'carrot cake carrot cake' or 'mango smoothie mango smoothie.' As in…
Oaxaca City
Goodbye Corona, hello Lúpulo (meaning 'hop,' as in the plant). Oaxaca's cherished nano-brewery (that's a brewery even smaller than a microbrewery) offers…
Oaxaca City
Oaxaca’s most prestigious and ubiquitous local coffee roaster uses organic beans plucked from growers in the western part of the province. The company has…
Oaxaca City
Like most of Oaxaca's mezcalerías, this place is small, dark and rustically trendy with an atmosphere that gets friskier as the evening wears on. The…
Oaxaca City
A synonym for chocolate in Oaxaco, Mayordomo has numerous branches, but the best is just south of the Mercado 20 de Noviembre. Walk in through the sweet…
Oaxaca City
This pleasant cafe offers a small lunch menu to pair with a wide selection of single-origin coffee, prepared in a variety of ways, depending on batch and…
Oaxaca City
Cuish is an outlet for small organic producers making mezcal from wild agaves. Here you can book mezcal tastings or just pop in and try what's available…
Oaxaca City
Squeeze into this standing-room-only bar stuffed to the rafters with peculiar knickknacks for a short sharp intro to Mexico's smokiest spirit. Friendly…
Oaxaca City
An upscale mezcal bar with well-prepared cocktails such as mezcal mixed with ginger beer, Mexican pepperleaf and cucumber. For a tasty snack, try the blue…
Oaxaca City
Candela’s writhing Latin bands and beautiful colonial-house setting have kept it high on the Oaxaca nightlife lists for years. Get there soon after…
Oaxaca City
A don't-miss stop on any mezcal trail, In Situ stocks a vast variety of artisanal mezcals, many of them unusual, and the owner is an encyclopedia of the…
Oaxaca City
Popular cafe with a tempting cake case, aromatic coffee and a couple of other branches dotted around the city.
Oaxaca City
The Jardín has a peerless position beneath the arches at the Zócalo's southwest corner. You come here to be serenaded by funky marimba ensembles, watch…
Oaxaca City
This den of live Latin music gets up a good head of steam on Friday and Saturday nights.