diff --git a/tests/entrypoints/offline_mode/test_offline_mode.py b/tests/entrypoints/offline_mode/test_offline_mode.py
index c89d315b..65699e60 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoints/offline_mode/test_offline_mode.py
+++ b/tests/entrypoints/offline_mode/test_offline_mode.py
@@ -1,50 +1,56 @@
 """Tests for HF_HUB_OFFLINE mode"""
 import importlib
 import sys
-import weakref
 
 import pytest
 
 from vllm import LLM
 from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
 
-MODEL_NAME = "facebook/opt-125m"
+MODEL_CONFIGS = [
+    {
+        "model": "facebook/opt-125m",
+        "enforce_eager": True,
+        "gpu_memory_utilization": 0.20,
+        "max_model_len": 64,
+        "max_num_batched_tokens": 64,
+        "max_num_seqs": 64,
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+    },
+    {
+        "model": "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1",
+        "enforce_eager": True,
+        "gpu_memory_utilization": 0.95,
+        "max_model_len": 64,
+        "max_num_batched_tokens": 64,
+        "max_num_seqs": 64,
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+        "tokenizer_mode": "mistral",
+    },
+]
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
-def llm():
-    # pytest caches the fixture so we use weakref.proxy to
-    # enable garbage collection
-    llm = LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
-              max_num_batched_tokens=4096,
-              tensor_parallel_size=1,
-              gpu_memory_utilization=0.10,
-              enforce_eager=True)
+def cache_models():
+    # Cache model files first
+    for model_config in MODEL_CONFIGS:
+        LLM(**model_config)
+        cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
 
-    with llm.deprecate_legacy_api():
-        yield weakref.proxy(llm)
-
-        del llm
-
-    cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+    yield
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
-def test_offline_mode(llm: LLM, monkeypatch):
-    # we use the llm fixture to ensure the model files are in-cache
-    del llm
-
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("cache_models")
+def test_offline_mode(monkeypatch):
     # Set HF to offline mode and ensure we can still construct an LLM
     try:
         monkeypatch.setenv("HF_HUB_OFFLINE", "1")
         # Need to re-import huggingface_hub and friends to setup offline mode
         _re_import_modules()
         # Cached model files should be used in offline mode
-        LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
-            max_num_batched_tokens=4096,
-            tensor_parallel_size=1,
-            gpu_memory_utilization=0.20,
-            enforce_eager=True)
+        for model_config in MODEL_CONFIGS:
+            LLM(**model_config)
     finally:
         # Reset the environment after the test
         # NB: Assuming tests are run in online mode
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
index 86e226ff..23ea657f 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union, cast
 
+import huggingface_hub
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi, hf_hub_download
 from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest
 # yapf: disable
@@ -24,6 +25,26 @@ class Encoding:
     input_ids: List[int]
 
 
+def list_local_repo_files(repo_id: str, revision: Optional[str]) -> List[str]:
+    repo_cache = os.path.join(
+        huggingface_hub.constants.HF_HUB_CACHE,
+        huggingface_hub.constants.REPO_ID_SEPARATOR.join(
+            ["models", *repo_id.split("/")]))
+
+    if revision is None:
+        revision_file = os.path.join(repo_cache, "refs", "main")
+        if os.path.isfile(revision_file):
+            with open(revision_file) as file:
+                revision = file.read()
+
+    if revision:
+        revision_dir = os.path.join(repo_cache, "snapshots", revision)
+        if os.path.isdir(revision_dir):
+            return os.listdir(revision_dir)
+
+    return []
+
+
 def find_tokenizer_file(files: List[str]):
     file_pattern = re.compile(r"^tokenizer\.model\.v.*$|^tekken\.json$")
 
@@ -90,9 +111,16 @@ class MistralTokenizer:
     @staticmethod
     def _download_mistral_tokenizer_from_hf(tokenizer_name: str,
                                             revision: Optional[str]) -> str:
-        api = HfApi()
-        repo_info = api.model_info(tokenizer_name)
-        files = [s.rfilename for s in repo_info.siblings]
+        try:
+            hf_api = HfApi()
+            files = hf_api.list_repo_files(repo_id=tokenizer_name,
+                                           revision=revision)
+        except ConnectionError as exc:
+            files = list_local_repo_files(repo_id=tokenizer_name,
+                                          revision=revision)
+
+            if len(files) == 0:
+                raise exc
 
         filename = find_tokenizer_file(files)