The margarita, like the martini, is a cocktail of simple, ineffable beauty that a generation of overeager and/or clueless bartenders (or, God help us, "mixologists") have either needlessly complicated with unnecessary extra ingredients — remember the prickly-pear margarita boom? No? We blocked it out, too — or dumbed down by cutting corners with sour mix and other such abominations. Not so at Milagro Modern Mexican, where the $10 top-shelf margarita returns the drink to its perfect roots: a reposado tequila of your choice (Don Julio, Patron, Tres Generaciones or Rio Azul) shaken with agave nectar and freshly squeezed lime juice. Atop this, for the final touch, the bartender floats Cointreau. The result is a gorgeous drink: sweet, tart, smoky, salty. You need nothing more or less for a great margarita — except, perhaps, a second round.
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| Oct 14, 2020
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| Oct 2, 2019
BARcelona Tapas Restaurant
| Sep 30, 2015
Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant
| Sep 25, 2014
Diablitos Cantina
| Sep 26, 2013
Pueblo Solis
| Sep 22, 2011
Las Palmas
| Sep 29, 2010
Lily's Mexican Restaurant
| Sep 30, 2009
Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant
| Sep 24, 2008
The Cadillac
| Sep 26, 2007
Prickly Pear Margarita
| Sep 27, 2006
Tejas Grill & Cantina
| Sep 29, 2005
Pueblo Solis
| Sep 29, 2004
Maya Café
| Sep 24, 2003