02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Cinco: the Pope might have liked it here
And then a drink called doña mago, a tangy, smoky version of a margarita made with raicilla, a Mexican agave spirit from Jalisco in the south-west of the country. Heard of it? Nor me. It was mixed with tomato liquor, plum sake, chilli, tomato and plum cordial. Forgive my blasphemy — but Jesus Christ, what a drink. I've not been this enamoured by something new in a coupe since my first Hemingway daiquiri at Raoul's in Oxford way back in 2008. I see they're on at One Club Row: canny.