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Bekeb

San Miguel de Allende

Previously located on the terrace of a colonial building with one of the best views of San Miguel de Allende's downtown district before its 2025 move to a new location inside the luxurious Live Aqua hotel, Bekeb is at the forefront of this city's wave of innovative new cocktail bars. Named after the Tzotzil culture's word "bek," meaning "seed", owner and director Fabiola Padilla (former bartender of Enrique Olvera's Cosme at New York) designs drinks that utilise Mexican fruits, plants, flowers, seeds, roots and traditional elixirs.

Cocktails featured on Bekeb's menu, titled Herbolaria Mexicana, look to Mexico's long-held history of herbalism for inspiration, with commonly found ingredients forming the backbone of each drink. From cacao flowers to lemon verbena, expect a showcase and exploration of uniquely Mexican flavours across Padilla's drinks programme.

As well as the natural ingredients of Mexico, the menu also favours Mexican spirits at the base of each of its cocktails. As a Jalisco native, Padilla loves working with agave distillates. Take the Maguey, for example, where reposado tequila is combined with cooked blue agave must, pepper liqueur and bitters. From its classics section, try Tepache, a fermented, pineapple-based ancient drink that been revisited with a mix of spices, piloncillo and a base of raicilla, a wild agave distillate from the coast of Jalisco. Bekeb is the spot for locals and visitors who really want to learn more about Mexico and its hidden treasures.

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