Not each particular meals or drink day must be celebrated. Whereas Nationwide Quiche Lorraine Day (Could 20) may be simply skipped, Nationwide Margarita Day (Saturday, February 22) is a should — particularly right here in Houston. Eating places and bars throughout town are elevating a glass to this beloved cocktail with specials, and we’ve gathered a number of of probably the most fascinating choices. Have a look after which take a shot of Mexican sweet earlier than washing it down with a marg on the rocks.
Greatest Regards
The trendy patio bar in the Heights is elevating the day’s festivities with a $100 margarita flight crafted with Don Julio 1942. The upscale flight contains a mezcal margarita with cucumber, a reposado margarita with spicy blood orange, and an añejo margarita with honey and saffron, every completed with a novel rim of gold salt, black salt, or Tajín. These searching for a inexpensive choice could go for Greatest Regards’ unique and spicy margaritas which can be out there for $10.
Jethro’s Cocktail Lounge
The retro-inspired Montrose bar will have a good time with $12 margaritas, together with a cilantro-cucumber Margarita, the plum margarita, and the guava margarita. Even higher, it is open from 1 pm to 1:30 am.
Kazzan Ramen and Bar
Situated close to the Heights, the restaurant is providing two Japanese-style margaritas for $8 every on Nationwide Margarita Day. Their matcha margarita combines silver tequila, lime juice, Domaine de Canton, coconut cream, and matcha powder to create a cocktail that’s creamy, vivid, and spicy. For these searching for a extra complicated taste profile, the ume margarita blends tequila, Brandy Umeshu, lemon, yuzu, umeboshi, agave, and Shichimi Togarashi right into a drink that’s concurrently citrusy, earthy, candy, and salty.
Native Desk
Get a spicy pineapple margarita for $12 all day at every of the restaurant’s 5 areas. The Cypress and Katy areas will supply $5 margaritas on the rocks for $5, $5 Mexican sweet pictures, $7 frozen mango and strawberry margaritas, and $8 coconut and spicy pineapple margaritas.
Mexican Sugar
Patrons can select their very own margarita journey on Friday, February 21, and Saturday, February 22, from 4 pm to shut. Right here, customized margaritas will likely be combined tableside, permitting diners to pick their most well-liked premium tequila, fruit infusions, specialty salts, and rim garnish. If that’s too many selections to make underneath the affect, go for a $22 flight that provides three of the restaurant’s specialty margaritas.
Monkey’s Tail
The bar will have a good time the day with a mariachi band entertaining from 5-6 pm and a DJ spinning tunes from 9 pm to midnight. The bar’s drink specials embrace Tommy’s margarita made with Hornitos tequila, priced at $5 for the primary order and $7 thereafter, together with completely happy hour costs on different cocktails and $5 Mexican sweet pictures.
Trattoria Sofia
Ben Berg’s restaurant within the Heights places an Italian twist on Texas’ favourite beverage with its bergamot margarita — a drink that mixes Italicus Bergamot Liqueur with Patrón Silver Tequila and contemporary lime juice to ship a citrus-focused drink that’s each candy and bitter.
