mezcal

He wanted to serve Oaxacan food, incorporating his mother’s recipes and the region’s distinctive drink, mezcal.

“There are no real American substitutes for a tequila or for a mezcal,” Egan added.

This tour on GetYourGuide included unlimited tequila, mezcal, and beer, a hands-on guacamole-making session where we customized it to our tastes, and even the chance to hire a mariachi band for a few songs.

If you go there, you have to sit at the bar and get the prime rib and the Yorkshire pudding and a mezcal margarita.

The growth of mezcal in the US, brought in by businesses like Palazzi's, has been part of this shift.