Molino

The room

Molino opens at 07:00 every day at 21/4 Sukhumvit Soi 11. It closes at 01:00, or at 02:00 from Thursday to Saturday. It calls itself a Mexican eatery and agave lounge, and its name is Spanish for mill. The kitchen grinds corn for its own tortillas, ferments its hot sauces, and makes its cheese.

The website names the chef and founder as Lenny Nigro, a New Yorker who cooked in Mexican restaurants before Molino. It also says Molino uses premium agave spirits exclusively. The two cheapest shots on the list, at ฿200 each, are Jose Cuervo Especial. It is a mixto, 51 percent agave.

The agave list

The agave list runs to 99 labels, the longest published list in this directory. Ojo is next, at 81. There are 70 tequilas, 19 mezcals, three sotols, two raicillas, and a bacanora. The other four are agave spirits that are neither tequila nor mezcal by law. Three are Maya Pistola, from Goa. The fourth, NODO, is made in Mexico, though the menu files it under Indian agave.

Every label comes by the shot, and 83 also come by the bottle. The menu does not give the shot size. Prices are before a 10 percent service charge and 7 percent VAT.

The menu splits its tequila into lowlands and highlands, with a third page for brands it files under both. Of the 70 tequilas, 37 come from seven brands on the additive-free list. Cascahuín has nine of them, including Destino and Siete Veces Diez, which no other bar in this directory lists.

Its prices sit between Ojo's and Spicy Sombrero's. Of the 43 bottles Molino shares with Ojo, 37 cost less here. Most of the exceptions are Cascahuín: five of the seven Cascahuín bottles on both lists are cheaper at Ojo. All 12 bottles it shares with Spicy Sombrero cost more here. Don Julio 1942 is ฿19,000 at Spicy Sombrero, ฿25,000 at Molino, and ฿30,800 at Ojo.

Flights and Margaritas

Three tequila flights cost ฿690 each. High Land pours Ocho Plata, Gran Centenario reposado, and Patrón añejo. Low Land pours El Tequileño Platinum, Arette Suave reposado, and Cascahuín extra añejo. The Blanco flight is whatever blancos are current. The menu gives no pour size for any of them.

Order the Low Land flight. All three pours come from brands on the additive-free list, and the flight costs less than a single ฿720 shot of the Cascahuín extra añejo in it.

Every Margarita names its base. The Classic is 100 percent agave blanco at ฿380, or ฿1,650 a pitcher. The Cadillac uses reposado and Cointreau (฿450), and the Mezcal Margarita uses espadín (฿480). The Goa Margarita (฿420) is made with Pistola, kokum, toasted cumin, and chili salt. The Hi-So, named for the Thai slang for high society, is Clase Azul and Grand Marnier at ฿1,180.

A house tequila, 45 ml with a mixer, is ฿250, or ฿190 at happy hour. The menu does not give the happy-hour times.

The kitchen

Dinner runs 18:00–23:00. The menu is tacos, fajitas, enchiladas, and a ฿1,190 Australian beef cheek birria served in soup on cast iron. Tacos cost ฿100–฿160 each on Molino's Google menu. A separate menu covers 07:00–16:00.

The taco free flow is ฿490 a person for unlimited chicken tinga, carnitas, bean, and chorizo tacos. The ฿690 tier lists Baja fish, Buffalo chicken, carne encebollado, and chicken larb. The rules are printed on the menu: all you can eat, not all you can order. Tacos left on the plate are charged at à la carte prices, and at tables of more than three, everyone takes the free flow.

Molino runs its own delivery and is also on Grab and LINE MAN. Its Google reviewers mention the fish tacos 30 times and the tequila selection 24.

Before you go

Book through the booking page, by phone, or on LINE. Google's chart shows Molino busiest at 20:00 on Saturday and 21:00 on Friday. Dogs are allowed inside and out, and there are high chairs and a kids' menu. Parking is a paid lot, and the Google listing says spaces are hard to find.

Molino has more agave than any other room in this directory, and charges less than Ojo for most of it. That's the reason to go.