For all of the tequila fanatics, queso and gossip lovers, tex mex connoisseurs – we have the line up of a lifetime for you. Our tried and true, our go to drink. We scoured the internet for the best margarita recipes and compiled them for the rest of the world to enjoy. Everything you could want from flavors to batches and more.
Check out our salt (or otherwise!) rimmed favorites now.
1. Ali’s 3-Ingredient Margaritas for Gimme Some Oven
The classic, the original. You have to start somewhere and build from there, in theory. If you can master this simple, straight forward cocktail recipe, the world of customizations will quickly become your oyster.
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2. The Modern Proper’s Spicy Marg
Truly the best step up from a simple margarita – the spicy one. Modern Proper’s offers a small kick (that if you’re daring, can build on easily), to satisfy your heat craving with ease.
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3. Isabel’s Frozen Margarita for Isabel Eats
This is, without fail, the best way to cool off poolside all summer long. Adult slushies are in fact a thing! And arguably better than when we were kids.
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4. Jeannine & Jack’s Mango Margarita for Love & Lemons
Incoming flavor combinations. Mango? Hello? This is the perfect tropical sweetener for all of that lime-y goodness.
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5. Erin’s Easy Watermelon Margarita for Erin Lives Whole
Watermelon margarita, lounging poolside, toes dipped in the pool, salsa just a reach away. Summer heaven.
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6. Patrick’s Frozen Strawberry Margarita for All Recipes
Truly, what would be better, in this whole world, than gossiping while splitting one of these with a friend – greaser milkshake style.
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7. Monique’s Grapefruit Margarita for The Ambitious Kitchen
This well balanced, refreshing cocktail is beyond easy to make, and a sure fire way to impress anyone, even yourself.
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8. Josie’s San Antonio Margarita for NYT Cooking
Here lays the elevated, sophisticated, drunker sister of our classic in the #1 option of this list. A must try for when you want to feel extra classy.
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9. Alexa’s Spicy Cucumber Margs for NYT Cooking
Have you ever been divulging in a drink and thinking, “Damn, I wish this was a little healthier?”
Well, look no further, we have the answer. This witchcraft is refreshing, has the perfect bite to it, and is hydrating.
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10. Bubbies Fine Food’s Pickle Brine Margarita
Savory lovers, we see you, we hear you! We have provided for you!
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11. Emily’s Tamarind Margarita With A Spicy Rim for Resplendent Kitchen
If you’re looking for a unique spin – look no further. This may or may not be the best way we’ve found to blend and balance a spicy margarita to be more complex, with out just making it sweet.
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12. Kelly’s Bloody Margarita for The Suburban Soapbox
Fear not! No actual blood involved. Just the best bloody mary, margarita fusion you could ask for for brunches gone wild.
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13. Danielle Walker’s Margarita Mocktail
Just because you aren’t looking to catch a buzz doesn’t mean you should be excluded from the fun.
This classic margarita mocktail is the perfect non alcoholic base that tastes just as real, and is beyond simple to customize with all your favorite flavors.
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14. Prairie’s Pomegranate Margarita for Food & Wine
This is what we like to call the perfect winter treat. Stay festive, stay boozy.
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15. Vaughn’s Salted Margarita Bars for NYT Cooking
Okay look – we promised you margarita recipes. We didn’t specify it would be as a drink.
Genuinely, if you’re a marg fan, you will fall in love with these and never look back.
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16. Guy Fieri’s Pineapple Habanero Marg
It feels appropriate that if you’re putting your trust for a drink of choice in anybodies hands, it would be the incredibly capable ones of Guy Fieri.
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17. Kylie’s Big Batch Margaritas For A Crowd For Cooking With A Cocktail Ring
Batching drinks seems straight forward, but all those ratios and diluting can get lost in multiplication tables. Instead – use this, for margs that taste individually made, even out of a pitcher.
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18. Don Angie’s Iconic Margherita
Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli took to fusing Italian flavors into everything they did at the iconic Don Angie restaurant in NYC. Thus was born this incredibly unique, fennel, calabrian chile, and honey infused take on a classic.
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19. Erin’s Smoky Pear & Ginger Margarita for Food 52
Our top mezcal contender. This drink is well rounded, the ginger providing an unexpected seesaw to the smokiness of the mezcal, backed beautifully by the subtle sweetness of the pear addition.
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20. Hemant’s Mumbai Margarita Cocktail for Food & Wine
This is one drink that will make you feel fancy and of a class previously unbeknownst to you, no matter how high up you’re starting. It’s gorgeous, aromatic, unique, and delicious.
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21. Erin’s Sage Infused Margarita for Food 52
While completely changing the flavor profile of a drink via heavy syrups is not something we frown upon, sometimes maintaining the integrity of a classic taste profile and adding a complimenting one, is the way to go.