Espresso Margarita

The Espresso Margarita is credited to bartender Dre Masso, who traces it to 2016, when he began combining a Tommy's Margarita with espresso while touring the United States. He had already experimented with a tequila-based twist on the Espresso Martini years earlier, on a bar menu he ran from 2005 to 2010. It was the later pairing of citrus with coffee's acidity that became the Espresso Margarita; he cut back the lime to keep the balance right once coffee was added.

The Margarita is a tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice cocktail whose own origin is disputed among several rival claimants across Mexican and American bars in the 1930s and 1940s. The Espresso Margarita keeps the tequila-and-lime base, uses agave syrup instead of orange liqueur, and folds in the coffee character of the Espresso Martini.