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The 4 Best Bars in Hampden

The cocktail revival quarter north of downtown. Speakeasies, restaurant-bars, and a thirty-something local crowd. Walk 36th Street. Save this neighbourhood guide before your next night in Baltimore.

  1. No. 05 · Cocktail Bars

    The Elk Room

    Fells Point · $$$

    Baltimore's most awarded cocktail bar.

  2. No. 06 · Cocktail Bars

    Sugarvale

    Mount Vernon · $$$

    Boutique cocktail bar with a tight rotating menu.

  3. No. 07 · Cocktail Bars

    Of Love & Regret

    Brewers Hill · $$

    Brodie Stronghold's beer-and-cocktail bar.

  4. No. 08 · Cocktail Bars

    W.C. Harlan

    Remington · $$

    Speakeasy reached through an unmarked door.

You'll find Cocktail Bars, Craft Beer, Rooftop Bars and Sports Bars here, all tightly clustered enough to walk between in a single evening. That's the value of a neighbourhood guide: pick a starting room, end up four bars in, and never get in a cab. Every recommendation below is independent — barsforKings doesn't take payment for editorial placement, ever.

The order below is a working ranking, not gospel. Read the notes, pick the room that fits the night you're planning, and treat Hampden like locals do — start early, walk between rooms, end somewhere quieter than you started.

A working editorial ranking. Walkable in a single evening — pick your starting room and let the neighbourhood do the rest.

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