The Rosedale Mediterranean seafood restaurant opened in March with a drinks list that includes spritzes, cocktails (classics like gin and tonics and house creations with one with raki and grapefruit liqueur), and a focused section on amari and vermouths. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The new North Loop restaurant’s New European and American menu is accompanied by simple and colorful cocktails, spanning pretty drinks incorporating ingredients like aloe, blue curaçao, apple foam, basil, porto, and grapefruit to loads of spirits. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The amazing team behind Veracruz All Natural opened a new restaurant in Mueller in April, which features first-time-ever cocktails. This means enjoyable drinks like the ATX Mezcalita with mezcal, chicha morada, and egg whites; the tart Muellerita with blanco tequila, Curacao, and chamoy; and the creamy Veracruz Colada with coffee liqueur. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

Cherrywood Mexican seafood restaurant Este expanded with an intimate indoor-outdoor bar next door in April. Drinks-wise, this means Mexican cocktails like margaritas and carajillos, alongside aperitivos.

San Antonio chef Steve McHugh opened not one but two Austin spots this February within the downtown hotel Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue Austin. Along with the restaurant Luminaire, there’s the rooftop bar Las Bis, which offers an array of fun cocktails, many with fortified wines such as the Sir Eel with sherry, bourbon, amaro, two types of bitters, and a fennel liqueur. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in spaces.

The new downtown restaurant, which opened this May, offers a classic raw bar/seafood menu, which means tons of martinis, negronis, hurricanes, and house drinks like the Siberia, a gin cocktail with a basil liqueur and black pepper mist. There are indoor dine-in services.

This is one of two bars on this map with cocktail lists created by the oh-so-talented Robert Björn Taylor (see: Equipment Room below). The spot — an Aaron Franklin-James Moody joint, which opened in March — leans New Orleans by way of Texas, which, for drinks, means the Uptown with mezcal, stool, yellow chartreuse, and a rosemary simple syrup; the Rope a Dope with gin, St. Germain, Rambler, and an absinthe mist; and boozy slushies. There are also actually thoughtful non-alcoholic cocktails. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

It’s all about agave spirits at the new Mexican by way of Mexico City restaurant in West Oak Hills in April. This means many margaritas, the intriguing Oaxacan Jellyfish served with a lemongrass smoke bubble, and tons of tequilas and mezcals. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

The Emmer & Rye/Hestia/etc. restaurant group opened its latest venture, this Mediterranean by way of Tel Aviv restaurant in East Austin this April. The drinks follow the same inspiration train, from the Carmel Market with an olive oil-washed vodka and raki to the Aphrodite’s Crown with rose, hibiscus, and charred pasilla chiles. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.

This is the second of two bars with an excellent cocktail list created by the skilled Robert Björn Taylor (see: Uptown Sports Club above). The listening bar’s drinks line-up stems from music, naturally, such as the All Tomorrow’s Parties with French banana liqueur and rum, the bright Gold Dust Woman with sparkling wine and apple juice, along with classics and non-alcoholic options. There are indoor dine-in services.

The Mexican restaurant in Zilker, which opened in January, offers a nice selection of related cocktails, ranging from the carajilo, a hot boozy coffee drink to a paloma made with Jarritos and tequila to, yes, margaritas. There are indoor and outdoor dine-in services.