🍸Mexico City: Our top cocktail bars

Mexico City's cocktail bars have been winning awards for years. Now, young, ambitious bartenders are branching out. Here are our favorite classic spots and new finds.

On one of our early trips to Mexico City, we walked past a restaurant in Condesa with a long, gleaming-wood bar, the kind that would be packed with people sipping cocktails and wine in the U.S.

It was empty, save for a lone employee with some paperwork in front of him. We didn’t see this as a sign, but as an opportunity, and we asked for two seats at th…