Bangalore Bar Guide
30+ bars across Bangalore's drinking neighbourhoods, curated by editors who know the city.
Bangalore is India's craft-beer capital. Toit on 100 Feet Road has poured house-brewed beer since 2010. Around the brewery layer, Lavelle Road built India's most polished cocktail-room district. ZLB 23 has held a World's 50 Best Bars position multiple years. The drinks lean Bangalore-rye, filter-coffee Old Fashioned, and Karnataka craft beer.
Five neighbourhoods cluster the action. Indiranagar is the craft-beer-strip spine. Lavelle Road runs the polished cocktail-room district. Koramangala holds the indie residential bars. Whitefield covers the IT-crowd cocktail rooms. Church Street is the heritage downtown bar district.
Cocktails run INR 600 to INR 1,000 ($7 to $12). Pints INR 250 to INR 400. Service charge of 10 percent included. Tipping is rounding up. Most bars run to 1am — Bangalore's licensing law forces an early close. Reserve ZLB 23 on weekends.
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Top Picks This Week
ZLB 23
Bangalore's most awarded cocktail bar. World's 50 Best Bars regular. Speakeasy inside the Leela Palace hotel. Twenty-eight seats. Tight rotating menu. Reserve.
Soka
Boutique cocktail bar with a tight rotating menu. Twenty seats. The bartenders rotate the menu monthly. Reservations recommended.
Toit Brewpub
Heritage brewpub from 2010. Twelve house taps, large outdoor seating, and a young engaged crowd. The most reliable Indiranagar evening.
Arbor Brewing
Heritage Indo-American brewpub partnership. Twelve house taps, communal long tables, and a serious kitchen.
Glass House
Cocktail bar inside the Leela Palace Whitefield. Polished marble interior, classic-cocktail menu, and a dressed-up after-work IT-crowd.
Pecos
Heritage Bangalore dive bar from 1989. Cheap pours, classic-rock soundtrack, and the most authentic working-Bangalore drinking experience.
Neighbourhood Guide
Indiranagar
The craft-beer-strip spine east of the centre. 100 Feet Road holds twenty brewpubs in five blocks. The densest brewery district in India.
Lavelle Road
The polished cocktail-room district. Heritage cocktail bars, hotel rooftops, and the most dressed-up Bangalore evening crowd.
Koramangala
The indie residential bars district. Boutique cocktail rooms, dining-and-cocktail crossovers, and a thirty-something local crowd.
Whitefield
The IT-crowd district east of the centre. Hotel cocktail bars, polished restaurant-bars, and a corporate after-work crowd.
Church Street
The heritage downtown bar district. Dive bars, neighbourhood pubs, and the most authentic old-Bangalore drinking quarter.
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