Where to Drink in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
06 July, 2021
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Café Cafetal
It was the coffee trade that first put this “hidden port” on the map, as plantations cropped up in the southern Sierra Madre in the late 1800s. The last shipment left in 1975, but today you can still sip Puerto’s caffeine-spiked heritage at the beachfront Café Cafetal, which serves organic, shade-grown coffee from its award-winning plantation Finca las Nieves. Order the nitro cold brew before joining a trip to owner Gustavo Boltjes’ farm, where waterfalls and rivers feed Arabica beans. Seed-to-cup talks, tastings and overnight stays are on offer.
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Bar-hopping along Playa Zicatela
Maybe it’s barreling waves that up Zicatela’s buzzy energy. Maybe it’s the free-spirited crowd. Or the palapas pouring craft beers. You’re spoiled for drinking options here. So we say: why choose? Stumble across impromptu acoustic concerts and post-surf dance parties as you wander, sandy-toed, between spruced-up beach shacks. Try lively Palapita Bar, upmarket Playa Kabbalah or Casa Babylon where flying nymphs (see it to believe it) surround live-music performers and mezcal margaritas are strong. And when you’ve worked up an appetite: La Olita for tacos camerones dripping with guac or El Coste for ceviche served from VW campervan.
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La Piedra de la Iguana Social Club
Glasses emptied on Zicatela Beach, cross the Avenida del Morro to this after-hours bar. It’s been turning up the volume on Puerto’s nightlife for the best part of two decades. Expect EDM from local and international artists, fire dancers and bonfires under the open night sky. Plus, the best New Year’s and Holy Week parties in the region. If this gets your toe tapping, check out nearby Bar Fly or head to the Adoquín, where Wipe Out has partygoers raving until sunrise.