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There was a moment, in 2019, when the words ‘mirror margarita’ were echoing through every corner of east London. Mexican bar Hacha was fresh on the scene, and its signature see-through serve was making a stir.
The bar debuted as the capital’s first ‘agaveria’, pouring mezcal, tequila, soto and raicilla – all spirits made using Mexico’s native agave plant – plus a back bar stocked with 25 spirits in regular rotation.
Now, after seven years as a Dalston staple, Hacha will be closing the bright blue doors to its OG Kingsland Road site later this month.
Deano Moncrieffe, the bar’s founder and a veritable pro on all things agave, took to Instagram to announce that the bar’s last day in Dalston will be April 25 – seven years to the day since it opened.
The news comes just months after Hacha announced that it was being turfed out of its second site in Bermondsey in October. Its south London bar had shifted to the Bermonds Locke Tower Bridge hotel seven months earlier, transferring from Brixton Market, where it had resided for the previous three and a half years.
‘Over the past five years, Hacha has operated as a two-site business, and continuing in our current form with only Dalston is no longer sustainable,’ Moncrieffe said on Instagram.
Don’t get too weepy over the news, though, because Hacha isn’t gone for good. Its founders are seeking out a new, larger venue, having outgrown their current space.
‘It’s just the end of this particular chapter, but not the end of the story,’ Moncrieffe said, teasing that they would be announcing something ‘very soon’.
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In the meantime, Hacha will be serving its Mexican mixed drinks at six festivals across the UK this summer, with a series of short-term residencies and pop-ups planned for the coming months.
We'll be keeping our eyes on what will replace Hacha's Dalston spot. Located on the same strip as Bar Lotus, Brilliant Corners and Ellie's, it's one of Hackney's hottest cocktail spots.
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