as in tavern
a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises
we spent an interesting evening in that desert town's lone cantina
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One of the oldest cantinas in the city, El Cardenal Cantina has a guest list of regulars and transients every night of the week.
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Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2024
Government workers stop in at century-old cantinas for an afternoon beer (try La Ópera for gilded old-world opulence or Salón Tenampa for some of the city's best tequila).
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
San Miguel Chapultepec Restaurants The menu at Masala y Maíz explores the commonalities among the cuisines of Mexico, India, and East Africa, while El Mirador de Chapultepec is one of the city's classic cantinas.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
But pop-up parties have begun to appear on rooftops, in basements, and at run-down cantinas like the bizarre and beautiful La Faena, decorated with dusty shadow boxes of toreadors' costumes.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
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Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2024
Government workers stop in at century-old cantinas for an afternoon beer (try La Ópera for gilded old-world opulence or Salón Tenampa for some of the city's best tequila).
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
San Miguel Chapultepec Restaurants The menu at Masala y Maíz explores the commonalities among the cuisines of Mexico, India, and East Africa, while El Mirador de Chapultepec is one of the city's classic cantinas.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
But pop-up parties have begun to appear on rooftops, in basements, and at run-down cantinas like the bizarre and beautiful La Faena, decorated with dusty shadow boxes of toreadors' costumes.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
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