48 Hours of Drinking in Athens

360 Cocktail Bar sits on top of a Monastiraki building and delivers the most reliably packed Acropolis-view rooftop in Athens. The cocktail program is broad and Drop bags. Find a hotel-adjacent bar within a five-minute walk. Order something simple to anchor yourself to the city.

360 Cocktail Bar draws a steady local crowd in Monastiraki. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. The polished room you'd take a first date to. Sit at the bar. Talk to the bartender. Stay one drink — you're scouting, not committing.

42 Bar opened in 2014 and has built itself into the Athens cocktail bar most committed to the classical canon. The room is small, low-lit, and built around a po Walk into the city's drinking quarter (the heart of the night, not the tourist version). Two drinks, two rooms. Pace yourself — Saturday is the long day.

A for Athens sits on top of the A for Athens Hotel and delivers the most direct Acropolis view in Plaka. The 7th-floor cocktail bar has floor-to-ceiling windows Sunset. Find a rooftop. Order whatever the house specials around sundown. Take photos but don't lose 90 minutes to your phone.

Baba Au Rum has been routinely placed in the World s 50 Best Bars list since 2015 and remains the most internationally respected cocktail bar in Greece. The roo Eat somewhere with serious bartending built in. The right room is one you order both your dinner and your nightcap from.

Balthazar draws a steady local crowd in Ampelokipoi. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. The bar that made you book the trip. The pre-research one. Reservation-only ideally. Stay until last call.

Bar Pirates draws a steady local crowd in Plaka. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. Mary, Mimosa, or whatever low-ABV house play the room runs. Eat. Pay. Walk.

Bibliotheke Cocktail Bar draws a steady local crowd in Plaka. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. Find the hotel bar at your departure airport equivalent — somewhere quiet, low-volume, well-staffed. End the trip on a martini and a clean conversation.