Bartender — Restaurant Bar

Responsibilities

• Execute cocktail program in Oaxacan restaurant bar
• Prepare mezcal-based cocktails, tejate-inspired drinks, and food-pairing cocktails
• Engage food tourist guests with Oaxacan ingredient cocktail knowledge
• Serve spirits including mezcal, local fruit liqueurs, and Mexican spirits
• Support food and cocktail pairing recommendations with servers

Requirements

• 2–3 years bartending experience with mezcal knowledge
• English — Oaxaca's restaurant bars are heavily international
• Creative cocktail ability with Oaxacan ingredients

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Staff meals, uniform
• Tips

Work environment

Contemporary Oaxacan restaurant bar. Oaxaca's internationally recognized restaurants have bar programs to match — the cocktail that pairs with mole negro is itself a creative challenge.

About the role

The cocktail that pairs with mole negro. Designing and serving a cocktail that complements one of the world's most complex sauces — finding the spirit, the sweetness, the acidity that works alongside mole negro — is the specific creative challenge of bartending in Oaxaca. No other bar environment in Mexico poses that question.