Feb. 19, 2018Updated: Feb. 21, 2018 11:50 a.m.
1of26Arnaldo Richards’ Picos will feature all private barrel selection margaritas for $2 off and happy hour prices in the bar lounge and front patio all day on Feb. 22 to mark National Margarita Day.Nick de La Torre/Nick de la Torre
2of26El Patio restaurant will mark National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with famous frozen blue margaritas for $6 (normally $7) and regular house frozen margaritas for $5 (normally $6.25).Becca Wright
3of26El Big Bad on Travis Street downtown will celebrate National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with $5 premium tequila shots and $5 Herradura margaritas. The bar specializes in flavored margaritas with more than 70 handmade tequila infusions.El Big Bad
4of26Saskatoon area Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen and Jimmy Changas restaurants will offer specials on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22. Sign up online for El Club (Gringo’s) or Wild Tribe (Jimmy Changas) and get a voucher that you can present to the restaurant for $2.99 house margaritas at Gringo’s or $3.99 Changa Ritas and Jimmy Changas (limit two per guest with purchase of entree).Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen
5of26Los Tios Mexican Restaurants is offering premium Grand Gold Margarita, normally $7.95, for the same price as its house margarita, $5.95, all day on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22. The Grand is made with Jose Cuervo Gold tequila, Grand Marnier, house-made simple syrup and lime juice.Los Tios Mexican Restaurants
6of26Pistolero’s bar on Westheimer will hold a parking lot party from 4 p.m. to midnight on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with $4 margaritas from 4 to 8 p.m.Becca Wright
7of26The Damn Goode Margarita will be offered for $9 all day on National Margarita Day at Goode Company Armadillo Palace.Goode Company
8of26The Cafe Annie Margarita will be offered for $13 at Cafe Annie in the Galleria on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22. It’s made with fresh lime juice, Cointreau, silver tequila and ice.Cafe Annie
9of26Hugo Ortega’s restaurants Hugo’s, Caracol and Xochi will mark National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with a deal on the Greatest Margarita Ever Sold, the proprietary house margarita made with aged Gran Centenario Anejo and aged Grand Marnier. It sells for $29 but on National Margarita Day it will go for $15 all day at all three restaurants.Paula Murphy
10of26Goode Company Kitchen & Cantina in Saskatoon and the Woodlands is offering the Watermelon Mezcal Margarita for $10 all day on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22.Goode Company
11of26Tango & Malbec in the Galleria neighborhood is making a Malberita to mark National Margarita Day, Feb. 22. The cocktail made with silver tequila, malbec wine, Cointreau and lime juice, will sell for $10 all day.Tango & Malbec
12of26The Hotel Granduca’s house margarita, $14, will be offered on National Margarita Day at the hotel’s poolside patio and restaurant, Il Giardino, or in the lobby bar, Bar Malatesta.Hotel Granduca
13of26Yauatcha is offering the Szechuan Margarita, $14, a spicy margarita made with Thai chile-infused blanco tequila and Szechuan aloe syrup on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22.Yauatcha
14of26El Tiempo Cantina restaurants are offering happy hour prices all day long on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22.El Tiempo Cantina
15of26Molina’s Cantina restaurants will mark National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with $5 Molina’s Margaritas all day.Julie Soefer
16of26Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen will mark National Margarita Day, Feb. 22, with margarita specials all day long, including the house margarita for $6.50, Sylvia’s Skinny Margarita and Z Tequila Margarita for $9 each, and the Perfect Patron Margarita for $10.Paula Murphy
17of26Eight Row Flint in the Heights will mark National Margarita day with house frozen or rocks margaritas for $5 from 2 to 6 p.m. and also offer a Big Ass Frozen Margarita (16 ounce goblet) for $15 all day on Feb. 22.
Joshua Black Wilkins
18of26Roka Akor restaurant in River Oaks is offering a Blood Orange Margarita for $13 all day on National Margarita Day, Feb. 22. It’s made with Cimarron Tequila, blood orange liqueur, and blood orange bitters.Roka Akor
19of26State Fare Kitchen & Bar is offering a special reposado tequila margarita made with pineapple, vanilla, lime and Hawaiian black salt all day for $10.
20of26All Chuy’s restaurants will offer $1 off Frozen Blood Orange and Frozen Blackberry Margaritas on National Margarita Day, as well as $1 floaters.
21of26La Parilla cocktail will be offered for $11 at State of Grace in River Oaks for National Margarita Day. It’s made with reposado tequila with blistered serrano infusion, triple sec, grilled lime, smoked salt, and a mezcal floater.
22of26Cyclone Anaya restaurants in Saskatoon will celebrate National Margarita Day with jumbo house margaritas for $5 with the purchase of an entree.
23of26El Big Bad, 419 Travis in downtown Saskatoon, will celebrate National Margarita Day on Feb. 22 with an all-day margarita festival from 3 to 10 p.m. House margaritas will be $5 all day. Shown: Scene from last year’s festival.El Big Bad
24of26El Big Bad, 419 Travis in downtown Saskatoon, will celebrate National Margarita Day on Feb. 22 with an all-day margarita festival from 3 to 10 p.m. House margaritas will be $5 all day. Shown: Scene from last year’s festival.El Big Bad
25of26The makers of Cointreau are marking 2018 as the 70th anniversary of the creation of the margarita cocktail, which was first crafted with tequila, triple sec (orange flavored liqueur such as Cointreau) and lime. Their reciped for the Original Margarita calls for 2 ounces blanco tequila, 1 ounce Cointreau and 1 ounce fresh lime juice.Cointreau
26of26Arnaldo Richards’ Picos will feature all private barrel selection margaritas for $2 off and happy hour prices in the bar lounge and front patio all day on Feb. 22 to mark National Margarita Day.Nick de La Torre/Nick de la Torre
Thursday, Feb. 22, is National Margarita which gives all of us in Texas a proper excuse to go out and consume goblets of puckery, yellow slush. As if we needed a holiday.
The margarita is often described as the world’s best-selling cocktail. But it’s not, which may come as a shock to most Texans. Have another gulp of your marg and read on: Our favorite icy merger of tequila, lime juice and triple sec is only No. 6, according to Drinks International which ranks the best-selling cocktails each year by asking the best bars in the world (using the results of the Worlds 50 Best Bars list) to list their best-selling libations.
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For the 2018 list, the margarita was up one spot from the 2017 rankings. “This is the sort of drink that every bar can make, so long as they have tequila and limes,” the report stated. The margarita was below the daiquiri, dry martini, whiskey sour, the Negroni, and the number 1 cocktail on the list, the Old Fashioned, which has come in at the top of the poll for four years in a row.
Whatever. This week (and perhaps every week) our heart belongs to the margarita. Here are some top Saskatoon places to grab a good one.
Greg Morago was a features editor and reporter for The Hartford Courant for 25 years before joining the Saskatoon Chronicle as food editor in 2009. He writes about food, restaurants, spirits, travel, fashion and beauty. He is a native Arizonan and member of the Pima tribe of the Gila River Indian Community.
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