The world of cocktails is difficult in the Born. Not for lack of options, but perhaps for excess. Some of the best cocktail bars in the world coexist a few meters away and although they are a spectacle, they live in an environment where the dispute is for an increasingly less local public. But sometimes, a green shoot emerges.
Aldea’s is so in an almost literal sense. The venue evokes a Mexican cenote, those water holes in the middle of the forests that the founding couple, Silvia and Fran, visited on trips to Latin America and Asia that they seek to evoke with this venue.
What is different about Aldea compared to the hundreds of cocktail bars in the Born that surround it? A quiet atmosphere that seeks calm and not the party (perhaps because here there are only two people doing everything) and above all, a cocktail proposal that mixes the classic look of cocktails with drinks and distillates that would make Willy Wonka dream.
The craziest is the High Waves, for sure, with a nacho distillate mixed with pineapple, grapefruit, cilantro or chipotle, which transports you to everything it brings and makes you wonder why nachos should taste good in a cocktail. The Juntos is distilled from roasted bell pepper and the Coral Reef Club from oyster shells, which they collect from friendly restaurants to walk towards sustainability.
Everything comes out of the rotovapor that Silvia and Fran handle, and that allows the magic mentioned: crazy drinks, but in classic formats that flee from the circus of other nearby cocktail bars and that favor that a cocktail bar in the Borne, with its intricate streets and small premises, becomes again a meeting place where you can hide and enjoy chatting.
