Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Tequila from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Tequila
These stops show Tequila through production, tasting, and the historic distilling core that shapes the city’s drinking culture.
Jose Cuervo (La Rojeña), in Tequila, has been in continuous operation longer than every other tequila distillery anywhere. In Latin America, it is the oldest distillery still working. Its commercial tequila licence, the first official one issued, dates to 1795.
La Perseverancia (Casa Sauza), in Tequila, is the historic distillery of the Sauza family, among the town’s founding producers. This distillery dates to 1873. Tequila’s first production happened at this house, as did its first export. Ovens heated by steam are still on site, along with a family museum of the house’s production.
A working La Guarreña distillery that has produced only El Tequileño tequila since 1959. Its guided tasting format and production-area feel make it one of the town’s clearest ways to understand tequila in place.
La Capilla and Chucho Reyes are in Centro, and Hotel Solar De Las Animas is in Tequila Centro. Chucho Reyes serves tequila-forward cocktails and Jalisco-inspired snacks in the hotel’s flower-filled courtyard.
La Capilla, in Centro, pours tequila in the oldest cantina still open in the city. The Batanga was invented there and is still poured. World's 50 Best Bars ranked the bar from 2011 to 2014.
Chucho Reyes, in Centro, is inspired by the artist Chucho Reyes. Tequila leads the cocktails, and beer is poured as well. Food is served a la carte and as small plates, with Jalisco-inspired snacks, in a courtyard filled with flowers at Hotel Solar De Las Animas.
Hotel Solar De Las Animas, in Tequila Centro, is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner for 2026. With 93 rooms, it sits among the larger properties in town. Pools are set on the roof and at ground level. A bar on the property faces the middle of town and the agave plantations beyond. The building follows seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century Creole hacienda design.
Tequila has 6 venues in our guide and Centro has 4 venues in our guide. Tequila Centro, Centro / Sauza and Colonia Centro (historic centre of Tequila) all have fewer venues in our guide.
Tequila has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. La Capilla, in Centro, is the home of the original Batanga cocktail and the city’s oldest remaining cantina. It appeared in World's 50 Best Bars between 2011 and 2014.
La Capilla and Chucho Reyes, both in Centro, pour tequila. La Capilla is the oldest cantina still open in the city, and the Batanga was invented there and is still poured. World's 50 Best Bars ranked La Capilla from 2011 to 2014. Chucho Reyes pours tequila-forward cocktails, with beer as well, in a flower-filled courtyard at Hotel Solar De Las Animas.
La Capilla and Hotel Solar De Las Animas have third-party awards in our guide. La Capilla, in Centro, appeared in World's 50 Best Bars each year from 2011 to 2014. Hotel Solar De Las Animas, in Tequila Centro, is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner for 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tequila.
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Chucho Reyes belongs to Tequila’s center-of-town dining circuit, where the agave economy shapes the rhythm of eating as much as drinking. With a Centro address on Calle Ramón Corona, it works as a useful stop for travelers comparing town restaurants against distillery-led meals and hotel dining, especially when ingredient origin matters more than ceremony.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tequila.
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Set directly opposite the Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol in the heart of Tequila's Pueblo Mágico, Hotel Solar de las Ánimas occupies a colonial-era building modelled on the Creole hacienda architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its 93 rooms place it among the larger properties in a town where most accommodation runs small, making it the practical base for distillery touring without sacrificing architectural character.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tequila.
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La Capilla sits on Hidalgo street in the old town of Tequila, Jalisco, and holds a place in the World's 50 Best Bars record that few cantinas anywhere can match: four consecutive rankings between 2011 and 2014, peaking at number 16. The bar is less a cocktail destination in the contemporary sense and more a living document of how Mexico's national spirit has been served and celebrated in its birthplace for generations.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tequila.
Tequila, Mexico
La Rojeña is the oldest active distillery in Latin America, operating continuously in the town of Tequila since 1758.
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Casa Orendain (La Mexicana) sits on Tabasco 208 in Tequila's centro histórico. The property occupies a different register than the industrial-scale distillery tours that define most visitor itineraries in the town. For anyone reading the production geography of the Jalisco highlands through the spirits poured here, this address carries real editorial weight.
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The facility operates along the Fábrica de Tequila El Llano address on Silverio Nuñez, placing it within walking distance of the town's oldest agave-spirit institutions. For visitors focused on aging programmes and barrel-aged expression, it represents one of the more substantive stops in Jalisco.
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Located at Ramón Corona 155 in the town centre, La Guarreña represents a producer operating with credentials that sit above the entry-level distillery visit market. For anyone mapping the serious distilleries of Jalisco's agave heartland, this is a reference stop.
Tequila, Mexico
La Cofradía sits on Calle Juárez in the heart of Tequila, Jalisco. The setting puts guests within the productive core of Mexico's most documented spirits region, where distillery visits and dining intersect in ways few other towns in the country can replicate.
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La Perseverancia is the historic distillery at the heart of Casa Sauza, one of Tequila's founding producer families.
Tequila, Mexico
Casa Orendain is a historic tequila house in Tequila, founded in 1926 and built around Jalisco agave identity rather than staged spectacle. The experience is low-friction and production-led: guided tasting, distillery tour, cooked-agave context, and a portfolio that runs from mixto and 100% agave tequila to long-aged commemorative releases.
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El Llano is a historic working tequila distillery in Tequila, tied to Hacienda Mexicana El Llano, the Orendain family and the Arette name. Its interest lies less in polished visitor theatre than in old-format production context: a traditional Jalisco facility with Silver, Reposado, Añejo and Extra Añejo expressions that show how age categories shape tequila’s identity.
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El Tequileño is a working tequila distillery in Tequila with a historic La Guarreña setting, production-area atmosphere, guided tasting formats, and a casual, enthusiast-friendly pace. The draw is less polish than proximity to the machinery of agave spirits: blue agave, barrel-room context, and a town where tequila is read through place rather than branding alone.
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