Cocktail Bars Near Me

Death & Co turned the speakeasy into a discipline, and the East Village original is still the one we send people to first. Order the Conference if you want to taste why the menu gets copied worldwide. Rated 4.8, $$$.

The Connaught Bar tops London at 4.9 and our editors do not argue with it. Order the Connaught Martini, mixed at the table from the trolley. Mayfair, $$$$, worth it once.

Tales & Spirits pours Amsterdam's most consistent cocktails in the Centrum, and the house glassware alone earns the 4.7. Ask for the Eden. $$$.

Maybe Sammy works The Rocks like a Riviera hotel bar that wandered south, and it backs the theatre with real drinks. The Sammy Spritz is the order. 4.8, $$$.

The Walker Inn hides behind a Koreatown counter and runs a cocktail tasting menu that rewards trusting the bar. Skip the singles and take the menu. 4.8, $$$$.

The Aviary treats a cocktail like a plated course, and In the Rocks is the one people fly in to photograph. West Loop, 4.8, $$$$. Book ahead.

Trick Dog rebuilds its menu around a new theme twice a year, and the Mission crowd keeps coming because the drinks always land. Start with the House Negroni. 4.8, $$$.

Black Pearl has anchored Fitzroy for two decades by trusting its bartenders over any menu. Order the Black Pearl Old Fashioned, or just say what you like. 4.8, $$$.

Atlas turns an Art Deco lobby into theatre, with a gin tower you can see from the door. Come for a Martini and the room. Bugis, 4.9, $$$$.

COA built a World's Best reputation on agave in one tiny Central room, and the 4.9 is earned bottle by bottle. Order the Mexican Firing Squad. $$$.

The Blind Pig hides a proper cocktail bar under the churn of Temple Bar, and the contrast is the point. The Blind Pig Manhattan is the move. 4.7, $$$.

Buck and Breck seats a handful of people around one Mitte counter and pours with a seriousness that borders on church. The house cocktail is the namesake. 4.8, $$$$.

Bar Hemingway at the Ritz is the most romantic room in Paris and prices itself that way. Colin Field's Serendipity is the order. 1er, 4.9, $$$$.

Paradiso hides behind a pastrami fridge in El Born and routinely ranks among the world's best, and the queue proves it. Order the Supersonic. 4.9, $$$.

Salmon Guru brings colour and noise to central Madrid without letting the drinks slip. The Chipotle Chillton is the signature. 4.8, $$$.

Bar High Five is the Ginza master class: no menu, just tell the bartender what you like and watch the ice get carved. Bartender's choice, every time. 4.9, $$$$.

Here Nor There hides downtown behind an unmarked door and runs the most serious cocktail program in Austin. The house Sour is where to start. 4.8, $$$.

Drink threw out the menu years ago and built Boston's best bar around conversation. Tell the bartender your mood. Fort Point, 4.8, $$$.

Civil Liberties runs no menu and no pretense in Bloordale, just bartenders who can build anything you describe. Trust them. 4.8, $$$.

Handshake climbed to the top of the World's Best list out of a Juarez room, and the precision is unreal. Order the Handshake Margarita. 4.9, $$$.

Toca da Raposa pours foraged Portuguese cocktails from a tiny Bairro Alto room, and it is our favourite in the city. The Foraged Negroni is the order. 4.8, $$$.

Ruby hides above a townhouse off the canal and pours Copenhagen's most reliable drinks. Let the bartender choose. Indre By, 4.8, $$$.

Bramble lives in a New Town basement and helped write a modern classic, so order the Bramble where it belongs. 4.7, $$$.

Art of Duplicity runs a dark, theatrical room in the City Bowl with drinks that match the staging. The Duplicity Old Fashioned is the order. 4.7, $$$.

Floreria Atlantico hides under a flower shop in Retiro and has carried Buenos Aires on the world stage for years. Order the Negroni Balestrini. 4.8, $$$.

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