Every Margarita Recipe I Was Sent for National Margarita Day

National! Margarita!! Day!!!

It was February 18th. 1:12pm. I was quietly minding my own business on a Thursday afternoon when my inbox received another urgent message. It’s a National Margarita Day recipe, and it’s the 7th one I received that day alone.

I had been stirred into action.

I knew then that I must share these recipes.

February 22nd is National Margarita Day! How do I know? Because in the past month, I’ve been sent 27 emails (plus 5 follow-ups!) for this very special annual event. As a booze journalist, whenever there’s a national/international/global/galactic drink holiday, my inbox gets flooded with similar barrages of messages. And considering there’s now a food or drink holiday for nearly every day of the year, it gets to be… a lot.

But I don’t hate the player, I hate the game. Wait, no, I play the game, I do write these stories often enough. So I don’t hate it. How about, well hey, that’s showbiz, baby. Hmm no… let’s go with, after your 7th NMD email in two and a half hours… it just be like that sometimes.

This year though, for National Margarita Day—notice the very important capital letters, this is one of the o.g.’s of food holidays, let’s show some respect—I’ve decided to take a different tack and publish each and every single recipe that was sent to me. I did not tweak any measurements, adjust the language of any instructions, or add any helpful hints. I did not change any names or streamline any lingo. I did not vet these for quality. I did not taste test them. I did not pick and choose from my favorite brands, or for that matter, my favorite publicists.

No, this is literally every National Margarita Day recipe I was sent, as they were sent, in the order they were sent. Newest up top, just like my clogged inbox, and divided into four categories:

1. Margaritas.
2. Drinks playing a bit fast & loose with what a “margarita” is.
3. Drinks that are just… not in any way, shape or form margaritas.
4. Things that aren’t even recipes.

Salud!

Traditional Margaritas / Margarita Riffs

These are margaritas. – Jake

Ambersweet at the Confidante Miami Beach

Recipe:

• 1.5 oz Patron Grand Burdeo
• 0.5 oz Grand Marnier 1880
• 0.5 oz Lime juice
• 0.5 oz blood orange juice
• 0.5 oz Agave nectar

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Use a Double Old Fashioned glass, salt the rim and add the teardrop ice over crushed ice. Carefully pour the ingredients from the shaker into the teardrop ice. Garnish with a lime wedge and enjoy.

To make the ice teardrop:

1. Fill up a balloon with water

2. Expel all the air from inside the balloon

3. Hang the balloon upside down in the freezer between 3 to 5 hours

4. Remove & discard the balloon

5. Warmup on open fire a round shape stick to drill a hole

6. Empty the water

7. Freezer for 24 hours before using it

Fairmont El San Juan Hotel’s Pepino Margarita 

Ingredients:

• ​​1 1/2 oz Blanco Tequila
• 3/4 oz Cointreau
• 1 oz lime juice
• ½ oz simple syrup
• 4 mint springs
• 3 cucumber slices
• Garnish: ½ salt rim if desired and cucumber on skewer

Steps:

• ​Prep OF glass with ½ salted rim.
• Measure ingredients into a pint mixing glass.
• Fill with ice and shake.
• Strain into an Old Fashioned Glass filled with fresh ice.  Garnish.

Ice: Cubed

Service: Double Old Fashioned glass

SPICY HONEY MARGARITA

• 1 ounce lime juice
• 1⁄2 ounce Bees Knees Spicy Honey syrup
• 2 ounces blanco tequila
• Salt and lime wedge for garnish

Rub a lime wedge around rim of a rocks glass and dip in salt. Add lime juice, honey syrup, tequila and ice to a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously until frosty and strain into the prepared rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

TEQUILA HERRADURA HORSESHOE MARGARITA

Level: Beginner

Ingredients

• 2 parts Herradura Silver
• 1 part fresh squeezed lime juice
• ½ – ¾ part agave nectar

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake hard so that some of the ice melts, then strain over fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

The Freshest Margarita

INGREDIENTS

• 2 PARTS MILAGRO SILVER
• 3/4 PART AGAVE NECTAR
• 1 PART FRESH LIME JUICE

PREPARATION

Pour all ingredients into a Boston shaker, shake and strain over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with
a lime wheel.

Cilantro Margarita

INGREDIENTS

• 2 PARTS MILAGRO AÑEJO
• 1 PART FRESH LIME JUICE
• 3/4 PART AGAVE NECTAR
• FRESH CILANTRO

PREPARATION

Pour all ingredients into a Boston shaker, shake and strain over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with
a lime wheel, cilantro and smoked salt rim.

The Dano-Rita (Dano’s Tequila Spicy Margarita)

• 2 oz Dano’s Pineapple & Jalapeno Tequila
• 1 oz Cointreau
• 1 oz Lime Juice

Shake all ingredients and pour over ice into a highball or rocks glass

Garnish rim of glass with Tajin sugar/salt mix

Mint Basil Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1.5oz Tequila Don Julio Blanco
• Fresh Lime Juice
• Fresh Mint & Basil
• Light Agave
• Pinch Maldon Sea Salt

Method: Add ingredients to shaker and strain into glass with ice.

Garnish: Dehydrated Lime Wheel

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Tommy’s Margarita

Ingredients:

• 2 oz El Tequileño Platinum
• 1 oz freshly squeezed lime juice
• .5 oz agave syrup

Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker over cubed ice. Shake until ice cold and strain into a rocks glass over cubed. ice. Garnish with lime.

Corn Margarita

Ingredients:

• 2 oz El Tequileño Platinum
• 1 oz freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 oz agave syrup
• 1 oz Nixta Licor de Elote

Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker over cubed ice. Shake until ice cold and fine strain into a cocktail coupe. Garnish with a flame charred baby corn.

Spicy Skinnyseed Margarita

Ingredients

• 2 oz 21 Seeds Cucumber Jalapeño Tequila
• 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup

Skinnyseed Margarita

Ingredients

• 2 oz 21 Seeds Valencia Orange Tequila
• 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup

1800 Classic Margarita

• 2 oz. 1800 Silver
• 1 oz. lime juice
• ½ oz. agave syrup
• ½ oz. fresh-squeezed orange juice

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake and strain into salted rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

1800 The Ultimate Margarita, the #1 premium margarita that’s ready- to-serve! Made with real tequila & the extract of lime, 1800 The Ultimate Margarita is available in refreshing flavors including Classic, Peach & Watermelon! Perfect for any at-home celebration, all flavors are best enjoyed on the rocks and chilled/blended with ice. As a premium offering, 1800 The Ultimate Margarita is packaged in 1800 Tequila’s signature pyramid glass bottle. I would love for you to consider for any National Margarita Day stories you have in the works or any upcoming coverage where they could be a fit! Please find images & links to purchase below! I look forward to hearing from you – thank you!

1800 The Ultimate Margarita Original

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled and salted Margarita glass

1800 The Ultimate Margarita Peach

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled and salted Margarita glass

1800 The Ultimate Margarita Watermelon

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled and salted Margarita glass

Rancho La Gloria – the agave forward, ready-to-drink margarita cocktail – these agave drinks can be enhanced by creating 10-second cocktails, which require one or two ingredients from the pantry. For drinking inspiration, please see some of our favorite 10-second cocktails: Spicy Mango, Tropical Peach and Spicy Watermelon.

Lobos 1707 Margarita

• 2oz Lobos 1707 Joven
• 1oz fresh lime juice
• 1oz pineapple juice
• 1/2oz agave simple or simple syrup
• 2 thin slices of jalapeños
• Tajin or Salt rim (optional)

Directions

• Add all ingredients into a shaking glass
• Add ice, cover and shake for 8-12 seconds
• Pour (strain if desired) into rocks glass

Tanteo Tequila Choose Your Chili Margarita

• 2 oz. either Tanteo Chipotle, Jalapeno, or Habanero Tequila
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 3/4 oz. Agave Nectar (or Simple Syrup)

Directions : Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled.

Rocks Glass (Smoky salt rim optional). Garnish with a chipotle, jalapeno, or habanero.

Tanteo Tequila Spicy Strawberry Margarita

• 2 oz. Tanteo® Jalapeño Tequila
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz. Agave Nectar
• 5-6 Muddled Strawberries

Directions : Muddle strawberries and combine other ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well
and double strain into an Tanteo-Jalapeno-Salt rimmed, oce-filled glass. Garnish with a
strawberry

Tanteo Tequila Spicy Ginger Margarita

• 2 oz. Tanteo Jalapeño Tequila
• 1 oz. Domaine de Canton
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/3 oz. Light Agave Nectar

Directions : Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled

Rocks Glass. Garnish with a ginger slice.

Tanteo Tequila Red-Pepper-Ita

• 1.75 oz. Tanteo Chipotle Tequila
• .25 oz. Mezcal
• .75 oz. Red Pepper Purée
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• .5 oz. Light Agave Nectar (or simple syrup)

Directions: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled.

Rocks Glass (smoky salt rim optional). Garnish with a Pepper Wedge.

Tanteo Tequila Sizzling Citrus Marg

• 2 oz. Tanteo Habanero Tequila
• 2 oz. Fresh Tangerine juice
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz. Light Agave Nectar

Directions: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an Ice-Filled Highball Glass. Garnish with a tangerine slice.

Tanteo Tequila Heat of the Moment Margarita

• 2 oz. Tanteo Habanero Tequila
• 1 oz. Passion Fruit Purée
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/4 oz. Light Agave Nectar

Directions: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a salt-rimmed, ice-filled Rocks Glass. Garnish with half a passion fruit.
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Switching out a Main Ingredient or Adding Something & Calling it a Margarita

Getting a little creative here. – Jake

Fire Pit Margarita at West Main Crafting Co.

• 2 Dashes Orange Bitters
• 1/4oz Dry Curaçao
• 3/4oz Chipotle-Pineapple Syrup (fresh pineapple, 2:1 simple syrup, chipotle peppers, dash of adobo sauce from the chipotle peppers)
• 3/4oz Lime Juice
• 1/2oz Fidencio Mezcal
• 1 1/4 Silver Tequila

Directions: Combine ingredients in rocks glass rimmed with sugar and cracked black pepper. Garnish with orange slice (fresh or dehydrated) and burned thyme.

Jolene at OBC Kitchen

• 1.5 oz Camarena
• .75 oz lime juice
• .5 oz charred jalapeno prickly pear syrup
• .25 oz orange juice
• .25 oz Cointreau

Directions: Combine all ingredients in shaker; shake and double strain into coupe class. Garnish with ½ lime salt rim and grilled lime wheel.

El Diablo Solapado at the Bar at The Spectator Hotel

Recipe:

• 1.5oz Cazadores Reposado
• 1oz Pineapple-Cilantro Shrub
• .75oz Serrano Pepper Honey
• .5oz Tepache Pineapple Liqueur
• .5oz Fresh Lime Juice

Directions: In a chilled mixing glass combine Cazadores Reposado, Pineapple-Cilantro Shrub, serrano pepper honey, Tepache pineapple liqueur and fresh lime juice together. Pack mixing ice with glass, cover and shake. Strain into chilled Rocks glass with ice. Garnish with Fresh lime wheel. Garnish with a serrano pepper, sprig of cilantro and pineapple wedge.

Fairmont El San Juan Hotel’s Tamarindo Lindo Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1.50oz House Tequila
• .50 Lime Juice
• 2.0 oz Tamarind Pulp
• .50 cointreau
• .50 agave

Garnish: ½ tajin, chili and salt border and Dehydrated lime wheel

• Steps:
  ​Prep OF glass with ½ salted rim  Measure ingredients into a pint mixing glass.
• Fill with ice and shake.
• Strain into an Old Fashioned Glass filled with fresh ice.
• Garnish

Ice: Cubed

Service: Double Old Fashioned glass

1800 Tequila x Jarritos Tamarindo Tango Margarita

**Mix in fresh lime juice & Chile de Arbol and serve on the rocks with chile salt rim & lime wheel

JARRETT’S HACIENDA DE LAVENDER MARGARITA

Level: Intermediate

Ingredients

• 2oz Herradura Reposado
• 1oz Lime Juice
• 1oz Lavender Syrup
• 1/4oz Orange Juice
• Pinch of Salt

Directions:

Add all ingredients into a shaker. Add ice, shake, and strain over ice into a rocks glass. Then garnish with two pieces of Lavender.

JAE’S SWEET AND SPICY MARGARITA

Level: Intermediate

Ingredients

• 2 oz Herradura Reposado Tequila
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 3 Muddled Jalapenos Pepper Slices
• .5 oz Herradura Agave
• 2 oz Pineapple Juice

Directions:

1. Add Ice to the shaker

2. Add 2 to 3 slices of fresh jalapeños

3. Muddle the jalapeño

4. Add one ounce of lime juice

5. Add two ounces of Herradura Reposado Tequila

6. Add one squeeze of agave

7. Add two ounces of Pineapple Juice

8. Shake all contents vigorously

9. Double strain into a large rocks glass over ice

10. Garnish with the top of the jalapeño head

Spicy Verde Margarita

INGREDIENTS

• 1 PART MILAGRO SILVER
• 1 PART ANCHO REYES VERDE
• 3/4 PART FRESH LIME JUICE
• 1/2 PART AGAVE NECTAR

PREPARATION

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a rocks glass over
fresh ice. Garnish with a poblano chile and salted rim.

Cucumber Watermelon Margarita

INGREDIENTS

• 2 PARTS MILAGRO SILVER
• 1 PART FRESH LIME JUICE
• 3/4 PART AGAVE NECTAR
• 4 WATERMELON CHUNKS
• 2 SLICES CUCUMBER

PREPARATION

Muddle watermelon & cucumber in a Boston shaker, add remaining ingredients. Shake and
strain over fresh ice. Garnish with Tajin and watermelon and cucumber spears.

Casa Del Toro’s AVOrita

(by Casa Del Toro Mixologist Austin Zimmer)

• 2-ounces Patrón Reposado Tequila
• 1 Lime
• 1-ounce Homemade Avocado Cordial
• Smoked with hickory wood

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle avocado, cilantro and lime juice until avocado is thoroughly mashed.

2. Add tequila, Cointreau, agave nectar and ice, and shake until well chilled.

3. Strain into a rocks glass over ice.

4. Salt rim and garnish.

Lemon Turmeric Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. TDJ Blanco
• 0.75 oz. Meyer Lemon Juice
• 0.5 z. Turmeric Juice
• 0.5 oz. Kaffir Lime Zest Cordial

*Add the zest of 3 limes to 1/2 cup of granulated sugar, let sit at room temperature for 24- 36 hours. add 3/4 cup of fresh lime juice and a pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly and discard the lime zests.

Method: Add ingredients to a shaker and strain into rocks glass with ice.

Garnish: Cracked Black Pepper + Extra Virgin Olive Oil Dash

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Blood Orange Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. TDJ Blanco
• 0.5 oz. Blood Orange Juice
• 0.15 oz. Lime Juice
• 0.10 oz. Blood Orange Juice
• 0.5 oz. Kumquat Cordial

* Add the 1/4 cup of sliced kumquats to 1/2 cup of granulated sugar, let sit at room temperature for 24- 36 hours. Add 1/2 cup of fresh lime juice and 1/4 cup fresh tangerine juice and a pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly and discard the lime zests.

Method: Add ingredients to a shaker and strain into rocks glass with ice.

Garnish: Citrus Salt Rim

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Avoketo Margarita

Recipe Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 6 oz. Tequila Don Julio Reposado
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1 Avocado (Skin and pit taken out)
• Pinch of salt
• Cilantro (optional)
• Chili Lime Salt

Preparation:

Combine Tequila Don Julio Reposado, fresh lime juice, avocado, and salt into a blender with 2 1/2 cups of crushed ice. Blend until texture is smooth.
Pour contents into a rocks glass rimmed with chili lime salt over fresh ice.

Garnish with cilantro and lime wheel.

1800 Cranberry Margarita

• 2 oz. 1800 Silver
• 1 oz. frozen cranberries, thawed
• 1 oz. rosemary simple syrup
• 1 oz. lime juice

Directions: Add 1800 Silver and thawed cranberries into a shaker. Muddle the cranberries until the tequila is pink. Add the simple syrup and lime juice to the shaker, then top with ice. Stir until cold, then strain into glasses rim with salt. Add additional frozen cranberries and rosemary as garnish.

1800 Summerita

•  2 oz. 1800 Silver
• 1 oz. watermelon juice
• ½ oz. lime juice
• ¼ oz. agave syrup
• Pinch of cilantro
• Champagne, to top

Directions: Add all ingredients but champagne to shaker. Shake hard for 15 seconds. Double strain into flute. Top with champagne.

Passion Mezcal Margarita

• 2 oz Vamonos Riendo Mezcal
• 2 oz passion fruit
• 1 oz honey
• 1 strawberry

Method: Cut passion fruit in half and place in the blender at low speed to keep the seeds intact. Strain and shake in a shaker with Vamonos Riendo Mezcal and honey. Pour over ice. Garnish with a strawberry.

Sweet Tart Mezcal Margarita

• 2 oz tamarind concentrate
• 1 oz orange juice
• 1 oz honey

Method: Combine in a shaker. Pour over ice.

Make Me Blush Mezcal Margarita

• 2 oz Vamonos Riendo Mezcal
• 2 oz guava
• 3 pieces of cherry
• 1 oz honey

Method: Blend guava with water and add 2 ounces in a shaker with mashed strained cherries, honey and Vamonos Riendo Mezcal. Garnish with a cherry.

Tanteo Tequila Spicy Fig Margarita

• 2 oz Tanteo Jalapeño Tequila
• 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz. Agave Nectar
• 4-5 Muddled Figs

Directions: Muddle figs and combine other ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and
double strain into an ice-filled glass. Garnish with a fig skewer.
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??? Really Taking a Flier Here ???

Not everything is a margarita. Everything isn’t, and shouldn’t, be a margarita. – Jake

Winter in Cabo Mocktail at Deer Path Inn

Ingredients

• 2 oz coconut water
• 2 oz mango puree; you can substitute with peach purée
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder
• 1 Slice of habanero or jalapeño pepper, whichever is available
• Tajín or coarse salt

Preparation

Rim your cocktail glass or martini glass with Tajín or salt

In a shaker add all ingredients and shake very hard.

Pour into a cocktail glass or martini

Garnish with a lime wheel and edible flower

SOL’S PICO DE PEOPLES MARGARITA

Special editor’s note: The next 421 words are a single recipe.

Level: Advanced

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz Tequila Herradura Silver
• .5 oz Green Chile Vodka
• .5 oz Succotash Sauce*
• .5 oz Sweet Corn Cordial**
• .5 oz Lime Juice
• Garnish: Slice of Long Hot Pepper and Mashed Black-eyed Pea, Toasted Corn with Dried Pasilla and Chile Pepper flake salted rim***

*To Make Succotash Sauce:

• 1 lb of tomatillos, husked, stemmed, washed and halved
• 1 poblano pepper
• 4 long hot peppers
• 8 pieces canned sliced okra
• Olive oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl combine tomatillo halves and peppers. Drizzle olive oil and rub all over surfaces. Put tomatillo and peppers on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake pprox.. 30 min or until soft. Remove from oven, let cool for 10 min. When able to handle, remove seeds and stems from long hots and poblano peppers. Cut into smaller pieces if necessary and put tomatillo and peppers in a blender with okra pieces and ¼ cup of the liquid from the okra can. Blend until smooth. There’s should a slight heat accompanying the bright and sour flavor. Strain though a Chinois and reserve the liquid.

**To Make Sweet Corn Cordial

• 1 can of Supersweet yellow corn drained, liquid preserved.
• 4 limes
• ¼ cup sugar

Directions:

Peel the zest of all 4 limes. Save the limes for juicing later. In a bowl combine the lime zest, ½ cup of the drained corn and sugar. Using a Muddler, mash the lime zest into the sugar and corn kernels to extract the lime oil for pprox. 3 min. Rest for 5 min and repeat this mashing pprox. 4 times or until sugar is dissolved and mixture is fragrant. Add 2 tbsp of the reserved corn liquid from the can to the lime peel/corn slurry to loosen the bits from the bowl. Strain and discard solids.

***To Make Rim Garnish

• Your favorite bean recipe
• ½ cup Toasted Corn Kernels
• 2g Dried Pasilla Pepper
• ¼ tsp Red Chile Pepper Flakes
• ¼ tsp Smoked Paprika
• Kosher salt to taste

Directions:

In a food processor, combine toasted corn, Pasilla and Red Chile pepper, smoked paprika and salt. Pulse until mixture is mostly the size of Panko bread crumbs. Remove from processor. Make whatever beans you like however you like them, as long as they are soft enough to be mashed. Mash enough to cover however much of the outer part of the glass you desire. Sprinkle kosher salt on top of this mixture and press spicy toasted corn mixture on top of that.

Mango Margarita Negra 

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Mr Black Cold Brew Liqueur
• 1 oz Mezcal El Silencio
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• .5 oz Agave Nectar
• .5 oz  Mango Puree

Method: Shake and strain into old fashioned glass and garnish with Blood Orange wheel.

Pitcher of Frozen Mango-Ritas

Ingredients

• 6 oz 21 Seeds Valencia Orange Tequila
• 2 cups frozen mangos
• 2 cups ice
• 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz simple syrup mixed with 2 oz of water

Skinnyseed Paloma

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz 21 Seeds Grapefruit Hibiscus Tequila
• 1.5 oz fresh grapefruit juice (pink is prettiest)
• 2 oz club soda

Tanteo Tequila Green Juice Margarita

• 2 oz. Tanteo® Jalapeño Tequila
• 1 Thumb size piece of Ginger
• 1/2 Lemon
• 2 Medjool Dates
• 1 Large Handful Spinach
• 2 Oranges (juiced)
• Fresh Mint for Garnish

Directions : Put all the ingredients in a blender. Blend well and pour into an ice-filled Rocks Glass. Garnish with fresh mint.

Tanteo Tequila Jabapotle

• 1 oz. Tanteo® Jalapeño Tequila
• 1 oz. Tanteo® Chipotle Tequila
• 1/2 oz. Tanteo® Habanero Tequila
• 1 oz. Passion Fruit Syrup
• 2 oz. Fresh Orange Juice
• 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice

Directions : Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice filled.
Hurricane Glass. Drizzle Grenadine on top of the cocktail.

Tanteo Chipotle Apple Cider Margarita

• 1.5 oz. Tanteo Chipotle Tequila
• 4 oz. Hot Apple Cider
• 1 oz. Fresh Orange Juice
• 0.5 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• 0.75 oz. Light Agave Nectar

Directions: Combine ingredients in a warmed Toddy Glass Stir to mix flavors. Top with cinnamon and nutmeg.
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These Aren’t Even Recipes

These are mentions of margaritas that exist in the world.

Sometimes I find myself asking, does a bar make a margarita? I start to get worried.

But then when I learn about a bar that does make and serve margaritas, I begin to feel relief.

Oh and here’s other stuff and promotions that also aren’t margaritas. – Jake

Righteous Foods, a wellness-focused restaurant in barbecue-haven Fort Worth, serves their margaritas with a nutritious twist by incorporating juice from the superfruit Açai. Paired with hibiscus liqueur as well as traditional lime juice and tequila, the drink is a refreshing and arguably healthier way to imbibe the classic cocktail.

Margaritaville Island Reserve Riviera Cancun, the new all-inclusive, laid-back luxury resort in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, is blowing the salt off the rim this National Margarita Day (Monday, February 22) with a wave of giveaways and virtual events celebrating the Limelife. Trade snow for an endless summer this month with the Groundhog Day Giveaway-a-Day sweepstakes – happening again and again through February 21 – culminating with a sneak peek live-stream resort tour and Margarita Day celebration, complete with a flash mob of beach party dancers, on February 22 hosted by travel expert Sarah Dandashy of Ask a Concierge.

The PATRÓN x JonBoy Margarita Collection is a collection of curated designs inspired by PATRÓN and the timeless margarita cocktail in JonBoy’s signature style and will launch ahead of National Margarita Day

The PATRÓN designs are meant to evoke the “JonBoy experience” of sitting in his chair and getting a tattoo. They are not only representative of PATRÓN’s iconic history and notoriety in the tequila industry, but also reflect JonBoy’s personal style and signature handwriting. PATRÓN handcrafts its tequila using a time-honored process with meticulous detail, similar to how JonBoy handles each and every one of his tattoo designs for his clients. JonBoy was inspired to create designs that are both based in PATRÓN’s history and craft while bringing in his own style. Within the collection, there are nods to PATRÓN’s Mexican heritage through things like magueys and the tattoo world through designs like the praying hands.

Gordon Ramsay Steak at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City

Sunart Margarita – Don Julio Tequila, Coconut Water, Monin Hibiscus Syrup, Fresh Lemon Juice, Orange Bitters

AC Burger Co. On the Baywalk at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City

Pineapple Margarita – Altos Reposado Tequila, Triple Sec, Muddled Pineapple, Sour Mix

Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar at Tropicana Atlantic City

Patrón Agave Margarita – Herradura Respado, Patrón Citrónge Orange Liqueur, Agave Nectar, Lime Juice

Lucky Day, a tequila & mezcal house in Las Vegas, features a variety of hand-crafted cocktails with seasonal ingredients, and there are three specific cocktails that are perfect for a National Margarita Day celebration. Three popular mezcal cocktails include: the Chica Blanca made with tequila, elderflower, crème de violette, lemon juice, lavender syrup and egg white, served with a cloud of smoke; the Dulce Mexicana, a combination of tequila, mango habanero vodka, lime, agave, triple sec, served with a chamoy candy and a Tajin rim; and lastly, the Smoked Rita made with mezcal, tequila, lime, orange crema, agave and charred pineapple.

El Chingon, located in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter and recently opened in Fort Worth’s Cultural District, will toast to the day with its extensive list of handcrafted, signature margaritas, including Avenida Revolucion: made with Maestro Dobel blanco tequila, fresh pineapple, fresh lime, cream of coconut and dry curaçao. Revelers may even upgrade to a “Bad Ass” version of any signature margarita, which will be served in a goblet with a Tajín rim, Dulces Tipicos Jabalina Xtreme candy straw and paleta. El Chingon’s signature “Bad Ass” margarita is the Madero, made with Azuñia Blanco Tequila, house-made watermelon cordial, lime and Tajín rim. Can’t pick just one? Order a margarita flight and sample three mini margarita varieties.

Las Vegas’ highest margarita, the Elevated Margarita from Top of the World at The STRAT Hotel, Casino & SkyPod, is made with Patron silver tequila, fresh lime sour, Cointreau and salt infused foam. The cocktail is served with breathtaking views of the Las Vegas Valley from 800-feet high and Top of the World’s elevated cuisine. 106 stories below Top of the World, PT’s Wings & Sports, also at The STRAT, will serve its sports-themed margarita, the Raided-Rita, made with Epsolon silver tequila, Triple Sec, lime sour, Blue Curacao and lemon-lime Gatorade.

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Look at all these brands getting all this recognition! Somewhere, a few non-included tequila brands who brazenly opted not to pitch a National Margarita Day recipe gotta be wondering what in the hell their PR and marketing teams were up to.

Have a happy National Margarita Day 2021!