With a built-in record booth, a floor-to-ceiling wall of vinyl, and a golden disco ball that has graced many a 2 a.m. Instagram story, Ladylove Lounge & Sound has a thing for music. Grab a seat on the dimly lit wood stage backdropped by long velvet curtains, or take your drink to the dance floor and get your groove on during one of their weekly themed music nights, which run the gamut from cumbia classics to “sad girl hours” (think Lana Del Rey vs. Billie Eilish “so you can cry in peace”). Expect fun, fruity cocktails that highlight ingredients such as strawberry matcha, passion fruit foam, and Blue Majik (an electric blue spirulina extract). Ladylove also offers a small menu of “Elixirs” (nonalcoholic beverages), along with a selection of beer and wine.

You should try: The CDMX, a floral grapefruit-forward cocktail with Condesa gin, prickly pear, and rosewater.

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Ayahuasca Cantina at Xamán Café

334 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208
@ayahuascacantina

Walking down the candlelit corridor into Ayahuasca feels like passing through a portal into another world. Nearly all of Ayahuasca’s ingredients come directly from Mexico including its mezcal, sotol, gin, liqueurs, and wine. Its unique menu is a journey through time, starting in the precolonial era with pulque, made from agave sap and thought to be one of the oldest ferments in North America. Beer, mezcal, tequila, and other spirits appear on the menu as distillation techniques introduced in the Colonial period through independence, revolution, and ending with 21st-century techniques like clarification and washing.

You should try: The namesake Ayahuasca, made with tepache (a ferment made from pineapple and piloncillo), mezcal, and ginger that shakes past and present into a single drink.

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The Round-Up Saloon

3912 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas, TX 75219
@roundupsaloondallas