La Makha’s bar has five signature cocktails, priced between COP $38,000 and COP $60,000, plus fourteen classics between COP $40,000 and COP $61,000. The signature drinks are the house’s own creations, built with ingredients like aged mezcal, rum, and homemade reductions. The classics are the reliable, well-made versions of the drinks you already know, for anyone who’d rather not experiment before dinner.
Here’s what you’ll find on the drinks list if you’re pairing dinner with something beyond wine: what’s in each signature cocktail, which classics are on offer, and an idea of what to order depending on what you’re eating. You can book a table at La Makha and decide on the cocktail once you’re seated, or walk in already knowing what you want.
The atmosphere behind the bar
The bar lives inside the same “quiet luxury” space that defines all of La Makha: minimalist lines, no decorative excess, built so the drink accompanies the conversation instead of stealing the spotlight. This isn’t a flashy bar with fire and elaborate tableside setups; the focus is on ingredient balance, not showmanship.
That also explains why the signature list is short: five cocktails, not twenty. Each one has a clear reason for being there, instead of a long list that ends up being hard to work through. The same minimalist logic that defines the restaurant’s interior design applies to the drinks list: five well-thought-out options beat thirty that nobody ever gets around to trying.
The five signature cocktails
The signature cocktails are the bar’s own creations, different from what you’d find anywhere else. There are five, in this order by price:
- Esfumado (COP $38,000): aged rum, frangelico, tamarind and orange peel syrup, lemon juice, and a clarified finish.
- Silencio (COP $38,000): Absolut vodka washed in coconut oil, thyme syrup, mandarin lemon juice, and a soda top.
- Sabroso (COP $45,000): red wine reduction with red berries, mandarin lemon juice, mint syrup, Absolut vodka, and tonic.
- Revelación Rubí (COP $45,000): bourbon with rye notes, corozo syrup, pineapple extract, and lemon juice.
- Niebla (COP $60,000): Ojo de Tigre mezcal made with espadín agave aged eight years, poleo syrup, and mandarin lemon.
Esfumado and Silencio are the most affordable and also the easiest to drink if you’re not big on strong cocktails: the first plays with sweet tamarind and orange notes, the second is citrusy and light thanks to the coconut and mandarin lemon touch. Sabroso sits in the middle, with the acidity of red berries and a herbal base from the mint. Revelación Rubí adds a tropical note of corozo and pineapple on top of a bourbon base, so if you like whiskey but want something less direct, it’s a reasonable entry point. Niebla is the most serious of the five: mezcal made from espadín agave aged eight years, built for someone who already knows they like mezcal and doesn’t need it dressed up.
The bar’s classic cocktails
If you’d rather stick with something familiar, the list has fourteen classic cocktails, all priced between COP $40,000 and COP $61,000:
- Jungle Bird and Daiquiri, the most affordable, at COP $40,000
- Dry Martini, Margarita, Mojito, Moscow Mule, Negroni, and Negroni Sbagliato, all at COP $45,000
- Aperol Spritz, at COP $48,000
- Old Fashioned and Paloma, at COP $50,000
- Boulevardier, at COP $56,000
- Penicillin, at COP $60,000
- Mezcalita, the priciest classic on the list, at COP $61,000
The selection covers the most-ordered families: gin-based options (Negroni, Martini), whiskey (Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, Penicillin), rum (Daiquiri, Mojito), and tequila or mezcal (Paloma, Mezcalita). The biggest group, six cocktails at COP $45,000, is also the most versatile: it covers herbal options like the Mojito, citrusy ones like the Margarita, and straight-up bitter ones like the Negroni. If you’ve never settled on what to order at other restaurants, this is the kind of list where you can just ask for your usual and know it’ll be done right.
There’s also a clear difference in intensity within the classics. The Daiquiri and Jungle Bird are among the lightest and fruitiest, a good place to start if you don’t want to open the night with something too strong. The Penicillin and Boulevardier, by contrast, are whiskey drinks with more body, better suited to the end of dinner or to anyone who already knows they prefer something with more weight. The Mezcalita lands somewhere in between: it has the strength of mezcal, but the citrus acidity typical of a margarita makes it easier to drink than the Niebla on the signature list.
Signature or classic: what to order
The real difference isn’t quality, it’s expectation. If you want something you’ll only find at La Makha and don’t mind not knowing exactly what it’ll taste like before trying it, go for one of the five signature cocktails, starting with the Esfumado or Silencio if you’d rather ease in. If you already know what you like and want that certainty before an important dinner, the classics won’t let you down.
If you want to take it a step further and think of the cocktail as part of the meal rather than something separate, each drink’s flavor profile gives clues about which dish it works with best. Esfumado and Silencio, both citrusy and light, pair well with cold starters like ceviche or the Corn Crisp, where you don’t want a drink competing with delicate fish or seafood. Sabroso, built on red wine and red berries, works better with bolder dishes like the Lamb or the Rice and Beef. Niebla, smoky from the mezcal, is the natural match for grilled meats like the Pork Belly or the Rib Eye, where the smoke in the glass doesn’t compete with the smoke from the grill, it complements it.
One clarification worth making: these cocktails work separately from the tasting menu. The seven-course tasting menu already comes with its own pairing per dish when you choose the paired option, and those pairings (specific cocktails and glasses of wine for each course) aren’t the same drinks that show up on this bar list. If your plan is to go for the La Makha tasting menu, the pairing is already sorted out; the signature and classic cocktail list is for anyone ordering à la carte or wanting something before or after dinner. It’s worth knowing that distinction before you sit down, so you’re not surprised when the pairing that arrives with your tasting menu isn’t one of the five signature drinks described above.
If you like the idea of recreating one of these drinks at home, there’s a separate guide on La Makha cocktails to make at home worth checking out.
One last practical note: excessive alcohol consumption is harmful to your health, and La Makha doesn’t serve alcoholic beverages to minors, same as any other restaurant in the country.
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