Mayahuel to Close

The eight-year-old cocktail bar was unable to renew its lease with the landlord. Mayahuel played a part in the rise of single-spirit centric cocktail bars and helped popularize tequila and mezcal as spirits that could be used for purposes other than making a margarita. The establishment was roundly well-received and appreciated – in 2009 the NYT wrote that it “[was] the world’s first tequila bar with a hypothesis…”

You can read more about the closing here.