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The Metropolitan

The Metropolitan is a serendipitous journey of places and flavors with Mezcal, Tequila, cumin, peach, pear and Peychauds.

Summer Harvest is a luscious savory and smoky mezcalcorn cocktail with a hint of sweetness enhanced with spices and herbs.

A Classic Margarita is the inspiration for all others. The flavor of the week might excite you, but it wouldn’t exist without the original.

Cucumber is the not-so-secret ingredient of the Oaxacan Pepino, brimming with the smooth and smoky depth of mezcal.

The beautiful, inviting Naked and Famous is the love child of The Last Word, a pre-prohibition classic and the Paper Plane a modern classic.

Traversing the margarita trail is an eye-opening experience. We chased the rainbow from sunup to sundown until we reached trail’s end.

A Devil’s Margarita is the aperitif before the apple in the Garden of Eden. It will tempt you, so clutch your protective amulet.

A peach margarita defies cliché—because it deserves better. To say “it’s pretty as a peach” totally gratuitous. I’ll leave it at…delicious.

A Tamarind Mezcal Margarita yields aromatic flavors of apricot, lemon and dates. It’s another taste of the rainbow along the Margarita Trail.

A Prickly Pear Margarita may be the most beautiful of all, and we have the opuntia cactus with its tuna to thank for that!

The deep color and raspberry-citrus flavor of the Blood Orange Margarita is at home on a desert mesa, savored while watching the sunset.

A strawberry margarita is especially refreshing in summertime. Discover there are many ways to “pelar un gato” and taste the rainbow!