Craft at the counter
Cocktail bars
Bars where the drink takes centre stage: classic recipes, house creations, ice in the right shape and bartenders who listen before they mix.
The cocktail bar is the night's highest discipline. What is in the glass is what counts, and Europe's best addresses have reinvented themselves over the last fifteen years between Berlin, Barcelona and Zurich. We list the bars where you can order a Negroni without fear and voice a wish without needing a menu.
Cocktail barBerlin · Neukölln
Velvet Bar
Berlin's most creative bar
Cocktail barBerlin · Charlottenburg
Bar Zentral
Classics under the railway arch
Cocktail barbaresia memberBerlin · Mitte
100 GRAMM Bar & Lounge
Your living room at Rosenthaler Platz
Cocktail barHamburg · City centre
Le Lion – Bar de Paris
The bar that invented the Gin Basil Smash
Cocktail barHamburg · Eppendorf
The Boilerman Bar
Highballs instead of high gloss
Cocktail barHamburg · St. Pauli
Kleines Phi
Colour in the glass, music in the room
Cocktail barMunich · Glockenbach
Zephyr Bar
Glockenbach at its best
Cocktail barMunich · Isarvorstadt
Bar Gabányi
Jazz, whisky, chessboard
Cocktail barMunich · Maxvorstadt
Goldene Bar
Gold on the walls, English Garden at the door
Cocktail barDüsseldorf · Old town
Sir Walter
Calm and craft in the middle of the old town
Cocktail barDüsseldorf · Old town
Elephant Bar
Opulence in the Andreas Quartier
Cocktail barDüsseldorf · Friedrichstadt
Boston Bar
Whisky, rum and American classics
Cocktail barbaresia memberDüsseldorf · Medienhafen
Böser Chinese
Asian fine dining with a composed bar by the water
Cocktail barCologne · Belgian Quarter
Little Link
Cologne's best bar in a small room
Cocktail barCologne · Rathenauplatz
Shepheard
Classics in the half-dark
Cocktail barCologne · Ehrenfeld
Spirits
Ehrenfeld's living room bar
Cocktail barCologne · Belgian Quarter
Toddy Tapper
Tiki, colour and plenty of rum
Cocktail barCologne · Agnesviertel
Suderman
Neighbourhood bar with world-class drinks
Cocktail barVienna · Innere Stadt
Roberto American Bar
The bar as host
Cocktail barVienna · Innere Stadt
Kleinod
Vienna's modern cocktail institution
Cocktail barVienna · Mariahilf
If Dogs Run Free
The ceiling everyone photographs
Cocktail barZurich · Old town
Old Crow
One of the largest spirits collections in Europe
Cocktail barZurich · Kreis 1
Tales Bar
Modern cocktail art on Selnaustrasse
Cocktail barZurich · Kreis 4
Raygrodski
Cocktails and music in Kreis 4
Cocktail barBarcelona · Eixample
Sips
The Drinkery House, number one in 2023
Cocktail barBarcelona · El Born
Dr. Stravinsky
The laboratory in El Born
Cocktail barBarcelona · Raval
Caribbean Club
Barcelona's smallest great bar
Cocktail barMallorca · Passeig de Mallorca
Brassclub
The best bar on the island
Cocktail barMallorca · Passeig de Mallorca
Ginbo
A hundred gins and the gin and tonic school
Cocktail barIbiza · Dalt Vila
Bar 1805
Absinthe and classics in the old town