The Dead Are Alive: Racho Takes Over Apothecary for Dia de los Muertos on Sunday Night
Dallas's Dia de los Muertos calendar closes Sunday with a bar takeover — Racho mezcal cocktails at Apothecary from 5 p.m. to midnight, with 60 people already on the going list.
Most of Dallas's Dia de los Muertos calendar is a daytime affair — parades, gardens, markets and altar exhibitions. Sunday night belongs to the grown-ups: 'The Dead Are Alive,' a one-night takeover of Apothecary in Dallas by Racho, runs Sunday, November 1, from 5 p.m. to midnight.
The listing is simple about the format: the Racho team takes over the bar for the night, pours mezcal cocktails made for the occasion, and calls it, in its own words, a good excuse to get together on a Sunday. The guest list on the listing stood at 60 going and 18 maybe when this desk read it, and the event runs on RSVPs — activity on the listing is visible only to guests who have responded.
It lands at the reflective end of the observance: November 1 is Dia de los Angelitos within the wider November 1-2 Dia de los Muertos, the day families remember children who have died, before November 2 honors adults. A mezcal in hand at midnight is a long way from a cemetery procession at noon — Dallas, characteristically, is doing both on the same day.
