Mezcalería In Situ — Restaurant in Oaxaca

Went in there tonight for a couple shots. The prices are a bit higher than is to be expected in Centro, but not much. The menu didn't say whether their mescal was artesenal or ancestral, which to anyone who knows anything is very important. I asked if they had any varieties which were ancestral, and the lady working waved vaguely at the menu and said they all were. In retrospect, I doubt it. I jokingly commented how much more expensive it is to buy mescal by the shot in town rather than at the palenques where it is made. Again something everybody knows. I was going to sample their wares anyway, but the woman behind the bar became extremely rude and arrogant as if she was offended that I noticed her mescal was priced between 9 and 13 dollars a shot. She literally told me to leave. I'm not at all surprised she only had a couple of customers in there. I am a permanent resident of Oaxaca and will never walk through her doors again. Not...

Pure suffer. Very professional bar, maybe too professional to welcome me. Managed to ignore me with only 3 customers in the room! Got leaded to the edge of the bar. Got the recommendation(one of the most expensives of curse) and no explanation. Tried to nicely talk with them but they seemed more like to stick to conversation with their friends at the other end of the bar. And I wait. And still their attitude told me I shouldn't showed up. Maybe the place is only for their little group, and I doubt you can get normal service if you are not one of their own, even with smile and nice attitude. I heard too much nice things about this place, can't agree now. I bet they have nice alcohol, but the problem is, would you be welcomed...

Learned a LOT about how vast and varied mezcal can be, depending on the type of agave. We chose a variety of types across different distillation methods and did a lot of taste comparison. This place has by far the most variety of mezcal I’ve seen anywhere.

Service was very attentive, we didn’t sit at the bar and our server didn’t speak much English so it was more of a self-guided tour but he refilled our waters promptly and was very kind to us despite our broken Spanish.

They had a special discount if you wanted to buy a bottle and paid in cash that night, I think 20% off. We already had bought too much mezcal so didn’t have any more space in our luggage but I’d definitely go back if next time...