Santa Fe, NM
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Cocktail bars around Santa Fe, from a downtown hotel lounge and a Water Street jazz cafe to a mezcal bar on Cerrillos Road and a distillery's tasting room.
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Secreto Lounge · Downtown
Secreto Lounge is the cocktail bar of the Hotel St. Francis, where mixologist Chris Milligan spearheaded Santa Fe's cocktail resurgence with adventurous, eclectic drinks. The cocktails are more fun watched being made from a seat at the bar. Order one of the house cocktails at the bar.
Tonic · Downtown
Tonic is a jazz cafe on East Water Street whose bar is led by Weston Simons, a Bosque Farms native named a national finalist in the Diageo World Class bartending competition three times, most recently in 2025, a bartender driven by a deep curiosity for flavor and technique. Order a cocktail from the bar and stay for the jazz.
La Reina · Midtown
La Reina is the bar at El Rey Court on Cerrillos Road, opened in 2018 with a cocktail menu built around agave spirits, and it remains a mezcal and tequila bar first. Order a mezcal cocktail.
Santa Fe Spirits Downtown Tasting Room · Downtown
Santa Fe Spirits, the city's own distillery, runs this downtown tasting room on Read Street, where its spirits are poured straight or mixed into cocktails; the distillery and a second tasting room are out on Mallard Way. Order a cocktail made with the house spirits, or taste the apple brandy on its own.