Mezcaleria Alma

Denver

Every spot that Johnny and Kasie Curiel have opened in Denver in the past few years has been “a window into Mexico’s dynamic food heritage,” said Kate Kassin in Bon Appétit . Late 2023 brought Alma Fonda Fina, winner of a Michelin star. Late 2024 brought this companion, a deeply stocked mezcal bar whose brief food menu is “nothing short of transportive.”

Visit with a friend, and the two of you “could work through Mezcaleria Alma’s one-page menu in a sitting.” The roughly dozen dishes include applewood-smoked tuna, pockets of tender masa filled with cheese, and bowls of leaf-green kanpachi ceviche shot through with dill. All of them are “electric.”

And then there’s the bar, and a bottle list that “would make for an eternity of great drinking without ever repea

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