Best Cocktail Bars in Tel Aviv

The bar that put Tel Aviv on the international cocktail map. Imperial Craft at 66 Hayarkon has sat in Middle East and Africa's 50 Best Bars for years and the quality of the programme explains exactly why. The Tahini Negroni — gin, tahini-washed Campari, sweet vermouth — is the signature drink and it is exceptional. But it is the 180+ spirit selection and the bartenders' ability to move fluidly between classic technique and Middle Eastern ingredient innovation that makes Imperial Craft genuinely significant rather than just regionally well-known.

The best hidden gem in Tel Aviv. Bellboy operates on a Florentin side street with no sign and the kind of narrow room that encourages conversation with whoever happens to be sitting next to you. The cocktail menu is short — 12 drinks, updated quarterly — and the team sources locally with the seriousness that the better Tel Aviv restaurants apply to their produce buying. The Za'atar Sour (gin, lemon, za'atar honey, egg white) is the bar's most-requested drink and it earns the reputation. Reserve at least a week ahead on weekends.

The outdoor bar on Rothschild Boulevard that functions as Tel Aviv's town square from April through October. Teder is not a cocktail bar in the strict sense — it is a cultural institution that also makes drinks — but the programme has become more serious each year. The natural wine list is strong, the craft beer selection is the best at any outdoor venue in the city, and the cocktail menu changes monthly based on whatever the bar team is excited about. The fact that it operates under the shade of the boulevard's ficus trees, with DJs playing from early evening, makes it irreplaceable in the summer Tel Aviv experience.

Florentin's most reliable late-night bar. Radio EPGB has been open since 2009 and it occupies the exact space between music venue and cocktail bar that the neighbourhood has always done well. The drinks are simpler than Imperial Craft or Bellboy — strong, cold, priced for a long night rather than a special occasion — but the bar has a working cocktail programme that takes its spirit selection seriously. The local gin and tonic is made with Milk and Honey distillery gin and it is the right choice at 1am. The crowd is a reliable cross-section of Tel Aviv's creative class.

The bar that best represents the mixed, multicultural version of the city that Tel Aviv likes to project internationally. Anna Loulou in Jaffa draws a crowd that is genuinely mixed across every available demographic and it does live music every night without charging cover. The cocktail list leans Middle Eastern — arak-based drinks, pomegranate sours, Levantine herb infusions — and the quality is higher than the relaxed atmosphere suggests. One of the few Tel Aviv bars that closes later than 3am most nights and still maintains quality throughout.

The art bar that has become Tel Aviv's most exported cultural image. Kuli Alma's street-art exterior draws the photographers; the interior — a multi-room venue with changing gallery walls, a rooftop terrace, and a cocktail bar that knows what it is doing — keeps them. The spirit selection here includes a strong focus on Israeli craft producers: Milk and Honey whisky, local arak producers who are doing interesting things with the anise spirit, and gin producers from across the country. This is the right bar if you want to understand what Tel Aviv's craft spirits scene looks like in 2025.

Chef Eyal Shani's late-night secret supper club and bar, which operates like a house party that happens to have exceptional food and a surprisingly focused cocktail list. HaSalon opens at midnight on Thursday and Friday and closes when the last person leaves, which is rarely before 5am. The cocktail programme is designed for endurance: drinks that are strong enough to be interesting but balanced enough to survive a long night. The atmosphere — a kitchen table that becomes a dance floor that becomes a cocktail bar — is unlike anything else in the city.

The hotel bar version of Tel Aviv's cocktail scene: formal, polished, serving a menu that changes with genuine intention rather than seasonal theatre. The Prince sits in the Prince Boutique Hotel on Rothschild and its cocktail programme has been taken seriously since the hotel opened. The bar team rotates through guest bartenders from internationally recognised programmes, which means any given visit might feature a collaboration with a bar from London or Copenhagen that changes the menu for that month. Worth checking what is on before you go.