This week, you’ve got one mission and one mission only: to celebrate Mexico’s freedom from colonial rule—preferably by sampling the city’s tequilas with fervor and gusto. Viva la Ciudad del Pecado.
Technically, the big day’s on Thursday, but you’ve never been one to stand on ceremony—particularly when a flock of pageant girls from the Señorita Mexico US contest are involved. Tonight, they’re decamping to Blush to pique your interest in Latin-American colonial history—and anything else that needs piquing.
Somehow, Elvis’s passionate support for Mexican independence never quite made the headlines (possibly because we made it up), so T&T is correcting the injustice with a balloon-stomping tournament and a taco-fueled Elvis costume competition. Extra points will be awarded for a well-accented “muchas gracias.”
The Luxor’s agave-minded outpost has possibly the perfect place to raise a glass to Mexico—a private room with over a hundred styles of tequila—and they’re bringing in a live mariachi band to get you in an appropriately patriotic mood. In honor of independence, they’ll even give you half off their usual happy hour prices—just as Mexico’s founding fathers decreed.
If you want a more forward-thinking celebration, Lolita’s will be tempting patriots with life-size holographic projections of burlesque dancers. You’ll also have a powerful house margarita at your disposal, but that’s very, very real.
It’s not a victory without a toast, so Fusion is offering a concoction dubbed El Grito de la Independencia, mixed together from strawberries, lime juice, limoncello and, of course, tequila. It tastes like a cross between a margarita and freedom.
