A 360° scan from the rooftop
Panorama, on top of Click Clack
Panorama is the rooftop bar at the Click Clack Hotel, on Carrera 37A in the south of El Poblado. The bar opened in 2018, sits on the eleventh floor, and faces all four directions of the Aburrá valley — north toward the Centro and the mountains beyond, east toward the Las Palmas slopes, south toward Envigado, west toward the Comuna 13 hillside that the city's cable cars run up. The right way to read the bar is to read the view. A horizontal scan, 360 degrees.
000°North
Toward Centro and the mountains
The view north runs along the Aburrá valley toward the city centre — the Plaza Botero, the Catedral, the older bones of Medellín. Behind the centre, the green ridge of the eastern cordillera rises sharply, often capped in late-afternoon cloud.
OrderThe Aguardiente Mule — aguardiente antioqueño, lime, ginger beer. The bar's standing argument for the local spirit in a cocktail context.
090°East
Toward Las Palmas
East is up. The Las Palmas neighbourhood climbs the hillside above El Poblado; the road continues over the ridge toward Rionegro and the airport. At night the hillside is a thousand small lights — middle-class apartment buildings stacked up the valley wall.
OrderThe Las Palmas Sour — Colombian rum, lulo, lime, egg white. The hillside in a glass.
180°South
Toward Envigado
South is the residential southern suburbs — Envigado, Sabaneta, the long valley running down toward Caldas. The view at sunset is the bar's most-photographed direction; the south-facing terrace tables get the best of the late light.
OrderA glass of Colombian wine — the bar runs a small selection of Boyacá-produced rosé and a Casa Grajales chardonnay-style.
270°West
Toward Comuna 13
West is the hillside of Comuna 13 — the formerly-conflict-ridden neighbourhood that has, since 2011 and especially since the introduction of the public escalator system, become one of the city's most-visited tourist districts. The cable cars are visible from the rooftop running up the slope.
OrderThe Cable Car — gin, lulo, sparkling wine, lemon peel. The bar's lightest pour, built for the warmest part of the day.
Panorama runs from 4pm to 1am daily. Reservations recommended for sunset tables on weekends; the bar takes walk-ins at quieter hours. The cocktail menu rotates seasonally but the four directional drinks above are the bar's permanent argument. Pair the visit with dinner at one of the Click Clack restaurants below; the rooftop is best as a 90-minute aperitif or 60-minute post-dinner round.
