{"id":86505,"date":"2026-07-25T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=86505"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:43:28","slug":"tula-cantina-mezcal-bar-guelaguetza-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/uitgaan\/tula-cantina-mezcalbar-guelaguetza-noord\/","title":{"rendered":"Tula Cantina: Fifty mezcals and a festival in your glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few bars in the city where the menu tells you something about a specific festival in a Mexican state. At Tula Cantina, it\u2019s different. The cocktail menu is inspired by the Guelaguetza, an annual festival in Oaxaca celebrating music, dance, and food. Each drink pays homage to that tradition, featuring ingredients like hoja santa, tejate, piloncillo, and fermented corn\u2014not as decorative touches, but as the foundation of the recipes.<\/h2>\n

Behind Tula is Mirthe van der Schoot, who also founded Coba Taqueria, which opened seven years earlier in the same neighborhood. Tula is right next door. Silvia Philion, founder of Mezcaloteca and Mezcalosfera in Mexico, is involved as a guest, which lends the mezcal menu serious depth. It features more than fifty different mezcals and agave liqueurs. This isn\u2019t a selection meant to impress with big names, but a menu that showcases just how broad the spectrum of agave spirits actually is.<\/p>\n

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The space is small and candlelit. You need to make a reservation in advance, because this isn\u2019t the kind of place where you can just walk in on a whim and find a seat. That fits the concept: Tula isn\u2019t a run-of-the-mill bar with a bottle of mezcal sitting on a shelf somewhere. It\u2019s a bar that takes itself seriously. The house-made products illustrate this: Tula Vermouth Blanco, Tula Dry Vermouth, Tula Chile Pasilla Liqueur, Tula Cacao Liqueur, Tula Chocolate Bitters, Tula Cinnamon Bitters, Tula Tonic, and Tula Coffee Liqueur are all made in-house and used in the cocktails.<\/p>\n

Each drink pays homage to the Guelaguetza tradition, with ingredients such as hoja santa, tejate, piloncillo, and fermented corn forming the basis of the recipes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tula Cantina is located in Noord, next to Coba Taqueria, and together with that taqueria, they form a small cluster of restaurants that clearly knows what it\u2019s doing. The mezcal menu is a serious exploration of a spirit that is far from being fully explored in the Netherlands. Anyone who thinks mezcal is just smoke will change their mind here.<\/p>\n

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Er zijn weinig bars in de stad waar het menu je iets vertelt over een specifiek festival in een Mexicaanse deelstaat. Bij Tula Cantina is dat anders. De cocktailkaart is ge\u00efnspireerd op de Guelaguetza, een jaarlijks festival in Oaxaca voor muziek, dans en eten. Elk drankje is een verwijzing naar die traditie, met ingredi\u00ebnten als … <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Tula Cantina","rank_math_title":"Tula Cantina | Mezcalbar met Oaxacaanse cocktails in Noord","rank_math_description":"Tula Cantina serveert meer dan vijftig mezcales en cocktails ge\u00efnspireerd op het Guelaguetza-festival in Noord."},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"district":[20],"class_list":["post-86505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uitgaan","district-amsterdam-noord"],"acf":{"slider":[86673],"fotograaf":"Misset Horeca \u00b7 Google \u00b7 www.missethoreca.nl","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Mirthe van der Schoot opent naast Coba Taqueria een kaarsverlichte cocktailbar","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"start_datum":null,"eind_datum":null,"cord_A":"4.9250646","cord_B":"52.3850131","introductie_tekst":"In Noord zit een bar die volledig draait op mezcal, agave-likeuren en handgemaakte cocktails gebaseerd op Oaxacaanse tradities. Tula Cantina is het nieuwste project van Mirthe van der Schoot, die zeven jaar eerder ook Coba Taqueria oprichtte. Meer dan vijftig mezcales op de kaart, huisgemaakte bitters en vermouths, en een cocktailmenu ge\u00efnspireerd op het Guelaguetza-festival.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Tula Cantina","adres":"Schaafstraat 4b","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.tula-cantina.com","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87271,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86505\/revisions\/87271"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86505"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=86505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}