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Daisy Margarita Bar

Los Angeles

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From the people who brought you Mírate, Daisy (which means margarita in Spanish) is a lively cantina in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley that is serving up a dozen renditions that are imaginative, high-tech and, most importantly, delicious. Dressed with fringed lamps, taxidermy and dark wooden rafters with walls and tables trimmed with forest green and gold, this ode to both the most popular drink in the city and the saloons in northern Mexico is always vibrating with a good time. The drink menu is sorted into Cantina, featuring the classics; Mercado, which incorporates fruits and other seasonal ingredients; and Salsa Bar, which focuses on science-forward techniques.

Serving as a base for the cocktails are limited, private batch tequilas that beverage director Max Reis has partnered up with maestros tequilero to create. Despite their prevalence elsewhere, you won't find salt rims here, as each drink is meticulously salted to taste inside the glass. Ask for a "skinny margarita", and you'll be redirected to their Tommy's, which incorporates Reis's "nogave" – a more sustainably produced sweetener with fewer chemicals than the agave syrup you've become accustomed to. Don't skip out on the food by chef Alan Sanz, who sources the majority of his ingredients from Mexico, including the savoury and melty Chihuahua cheese.

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