Battle of the Alamo Cocktail
This alcoholic homage to Texas history and San Antonio’s great landmark features a cheeky ingredient—gunpowder tea.
Spicy Paloma
While this cocktail is refreshing year-round, grapefruit season in Texas kicks off in the fall, making now an especially good time to enjoy it.
Curra’s Avocado Margarita
This drink is creamy, rich, mystifying, and ridiculously popular.
The Salty Dog
The one caveat? You have to use fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, or fear the wrath of your local mixology expert.
Under the Texas Sun
Meet Under the Texas Sun, a crisp, refreshing nod to the season.
Agua Fresca de Limón
This cooling, rejuvenating summer drink is made up of four ingredients that you already have at home: water, lime juice, ice, and sugar.
Desert Plant & Pepper
The Desert Plant & Pepper appears as soft and alluring as a glass of pink lemonade, but prepare your palate for a punch.
50:50 Freezer Martini
You’ll always be prepared for cocktail time with this make-ahead batch recipe from Houston Eaves, of San Antonio’s Esquire Tavern.
Old Pepper
For the Old Pepper, acclaimed Houston bartender Alba Huerta takes bourbon and spices it up.
Pegu Club
Bill Norris, of Alamo Drafthouse and Midnight Cowboy, pours one out for the Pegu Club, the beloved New York cocktail mecca that has permanently closed in the wake of COVID-19.
The Texas Margarita
Jalapeño-infused agave is the secret to this sweet and spicy version from Danny Caffall, of Dallas’s Mansion on Turtle Creek.
Colonel Collins
Pedro Ricalo, of Bullion in Dallas, shows how to make an easy, refreshing summer drink with a favorite brown spirit.
Summertime Smash
Fort Worth’s Megan McClinton shows us how to make her berry-based cocktail, a perfect segue into the sizzling summer season.
Robert Royale
Bartender Robert Bjorn Taylor of Austin shows how to make his at-home Scotch-based cocktail, the Robert Royale.
Hibiscus Margarita
The most popular cocktail from Marfa’s Capri restaurant captures the desert in a glass.
The Paradox
The Austin speakeasy Midnight Cowboy’s updated menu, themed around the art of conversation, features a striking new cocktail.
Life Aquatic
The Houston Italian restaurant Coltivare has built its drink program around this herbal liqueur. Try the Life Aquatic.
Infinite Loop
From the Midnight Rambler, in Dallas.
Starlight Theatre’s Prickly Pear’ita
The Starlight Theatre Restaurant & Saloon has been serving its cactus margarita for so long that no one can recall its exact origins.
Save Room
From Drink.Well, in Austin.
Seasonal Pimm’s Cup
From the Monterey, in San Antonio.
Uptown/Top Ranking
From Wonderland, in Austin.
Mexican Martini
It’s guaranteed to make your favorite urban cowgirl or cowboy happier than an armadillo diggin’ grub worms.