Mix up Your Margarita with The Toreador

The toreador made its debut in 1937, in Billy Tarling’s Café Royal Bar Book – a full 16 years before the margarita first appeared in print (it appears alongside a very margarita-like recipe, though, called a picador – so the debate around the margarita’s origin continues.) The bartender who brought the toreador to my attention was agave expert Deano Moncrieffe, owner of London’s popular Hacha tequila bars and creator of the viral crystal-clear Mirror…