Bucharest
You're flying out of Bucharest Airport, you have 90 minutes to kill, and you'd like to do better than a Pret. Good news: airport drinking has improved more in the last five years than the previous fifty. Pre-flight drinks at Bucharest Airport range from chain reliability to surprisingly polished hotel-style bars in the airport hotels. This is barsforKings's editor-curated guide to drinking better at Bucharest's airports.
Old Town · $$$
Bucharest's most awarded cocktail bar.
Floreasca · $$$
Restaurant-bar with a tight cocktail menu and Romanian-ingredient-leaning kitchen.
Old Town · $$
Belle-époque-themed cocktail bar inside a converted nineteenth-century building.
DorobanÈ›i · $$
French-influenced wine-and-cocktail bar with one of Bucharest's tightest natural-wine lists.
Want a real drink before flying? The fastest play is to get to airport hotels next door — most run polished bars that beat anything post-security. We list them at the bottom. If you've got 60 spare minutes pre-airport, see our shortlist of bars in Bucharest proper at the end.
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