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How To Make Homemade Margaritas Taste Like A Professional Bartender Made Them By Maria Scinto Sept. 16, 2025 9:00 am EST

It's not too difficult to make a perfectly passable margarita at home, or raid your pantry for a decent non-alcoholic margarita (The secret to the latter is Earl Grey tea, believe it or not), and yet, they always seem to taste better at restaurants. (This may exclude Applebee's strategic $1 cocktails , since its infamous Dollaritas are rumored to be watered down.) Chris Furtado, an area manager for liquor distributor Infinium Spirits , explained that a large part of this comes down to one factor: "Practice. Bartenders make better drinks because they get lots of practice and tweak their technique, making it better and better."

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