Best Bars to Celebrate National Margarita Day
Today is suddenly a whole lot better when you realise that it’s National Margarita Day! Whether you sip, slurp or shot yours, that first sip is to be savoured once you’ve survived the first day of the week. We have rounded up the best happy hours, masterclasses and most imaginative margaritas in town for you to celebrate this day appropriately.
Crazy Homies
Dozens of tequilas
The name alone is enough to make us want to head to Crazy Homies with our… homies but even more of a reason is their margaritas – they have 8 different margaritas on their menu with names including Lucky Lily and Sinful Cynthia’s Cadillac Margarita as well as a house version of the classic and a bartender’s choice. A seriously impressive tequila list of blancos, reposados, anéjos and mezcals can be muddled in to cocktails, poured on the rocks or shotted.
Where: 125 Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill, W2 5QL
Website: http://www.crazyhomies.com
The Jam Tree Chelsea
A spicy margarita
Fun-loving cocktail lovers know The Jam Tree is a safe bet for a few drinks, be it a Friday night Jam Mojito (their speciaility) or a Monday night Margarita. Ok, maybe a Monday margarita hasn’t been on your radar before now but when it’s made with specially aged Mezcal, agave, lime and chipotle tabasco, you know it will spice up the start of the week. And, if you visit during happy hour, you’ll nab one for half price.
Where: 541 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, SW6 2EB, United Kingdom
Website: www.thejamtree.com
Barrio Soho
Margaritas till 1am
Lively Latino bar Barrio is the perfect spot for a margarita. Even on Monday it stays open till 1am when the basement bar comes alive with music and dancing and the bartenders shake up their classic Tommy’s Margarita – the drink we know and love. Feeling rebellious? A 1am bedtime on a school night (a Monday school night) is the answer.
Where: 6 Poland Street, Soho, W1F 8PS
Website: http://www.barriocentral.com
Bourne & Hollingsworth
Margarita Masterclass
Why just drink your margarita when you can have a whole masterclass dedicated to the drink? The basement clubroom of B&H Buildings hosts regular pop-ups and temporary themed nights and in honor of National Margarita Day they are hosting a one-off masterclass on Thursday (probably a good thing it’s not on a Monday) with a Herradura tequila Brand Ambassador.
Where: 42 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, EC1R 0HU
Website: http://bandhbuildings.com
Cafe Pacifico
White chocolate and mint margarita
Where better to celebrate National Margarita Day than a former banana warehouse? Covent Garden’s Cafe Pacifico is putting a white chocolate and minty spin on the drink with white cocoa liquer and Aztec chocolate bitters. For today only, drinkers can have twice the fun with 2 for 1 on the classic 1800 Tequila Blanco margarita.
Where: 5 Langley Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9JA
Website: http://www.cafe-pacifico.com
The Pink Chihuahua at El Camion
Margaritas your way
The Pink Chihuahua is the cocktail bar at the Soho restaurant El Camion and when it comes to margaritas they have got theirs down to a T. Using fresh pressed lime juice for the best taste you can have yours on the rocks, straight up, frozen, with or without salt and with agave syrup if you want a sweeter taste. They also have 14 different tequilas on the menu as well as tequila drinks and Mexican based beers. That’s more than enough for a Monday night.
Where: 25 - 27 Brewer Street, W1F 0RR
Website: http://elcamion.co.uk/soho/
