Recipes

From the Kitchen and From the Bar

Recipes from Canela Cafe in Veracruz, and cocktails built around our exclusive Oaxacan mezcals. Try them at home, then taste them at our table.

From the Kitchen

Canela Cafe · Veracruz home-cooking

Shredded sweet chipotle pork in a glossy chipotle and prune sauce, served in a deep blue bowl.

Main · Veracruz

Sweet Chipotle Pork

2.5 hours · Serves 4
Overhead shot of arroz rojo in a white plate, scattered with fresh parsley.

Side · Veracruz

Arroz Rojo

50 min · Serves 4
Overhead shot of vivid green guacamole in a black volcanic stone molcajete, garnished with a single red flower.

Dip · Central Mexico

Guacamole de la Casa

15 min · Serves 4

From the Bar

Cocktails · Somos Pecadores & Sabia Maria

Pecador Negroni in a crystal-cut rocks glass with a charred orange wheel, beside a bottle of Somos Pecadores mezcal.

Cocktail · Somos Pecadores

Pecador Negroni

3 min · 1 drink
Rocks glass holding a deep amber Puebla Old Fashioned over a single large ice cube, orange peel curled inside and a cinnamon stick on the rim, beside Somos Pecadores and Sabia Maria mezcal bottles.

Cocktail · Somos Pecadores & Sabia Maria

Puebla Old Fashioned

5 min · 1 drink
Frosted clay cantarito of Somos Paloma on raw oak, pink grapefruit wheel on the rim, Sabia Maria bottle softly out of focus.

Cocktail · Sabia Maria

Somos Paloma

4 min · 1 drink

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