The Best Cocktail Bars in Athens
Athens has quietly become one of Europe's great drinking cities. Ten bars that explain why — from a 1958 original to the World's 50 Best regulars.
10 addresses · Updated October 2026
Athens drinks late and drinks well, and its bars have the awards to prove it. This list mixes the internationally ranked names with the neighbourhood rooms locals actually return to. Most do not take reservations — arrive early, or arrive late.
01 · Cocktail Bar · Monastiraki
The Clumsies
On the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2015 — the longest run of any Athens bar — and No. 2 in the world in 2019. A neoclassical townhouse on Praxitelous that runs from morning coffee to a late-night floor, with a ten-seat jazz bar upstairs.
Praxitelous 30, Athina 105 61, Greece
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02 · Cocktail Bar · Psyrri
Baba Au Rum
The bar that started serious cocktail culture in Athens in 2009, built around more than 400 rums. No. 27 on the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025. No reservations — first come, first served.
Kleitiou 6, Psyrri
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03 · Wine Bar · Ano Petralona
Line
From the Clumsies team in a former art gallery in Petralona, where the 'wines' are made on site from figs and pomegranates. No. 8 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2025, and the most original drink in the city.
Agathodemonos 37, Kato Petralona, Athens 118 53
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04 · Cocktail Bar · Monastiraki
The Bar in front of the Bar
A pavement bar on Petraki that opened as a pop-up in 2021 and refused to leave. Eight zero-waste cocktails that change daily — and a speakeasy behind the unmarked door. World's 50 Best, No. 47.
Petraki 1, Monastiraki, Athens 105 63
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05 · Cocktail Bar · Monastiraki
Barro Negro
Athens' first bar devoted to agave — tequila, mezcal and beyond — a few blocks from the Acropolis. No. 13 on Europe's 50 Best Bars in 2026.
Paparrigopoulou 15, Monastiraki
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06 · Cocktail Bar · Kypseli
Au Revoir Bar
The oldest bar in Athens, opened in 1958 on Patission with an interior by Aristomenis Provelegios. Sinatra drank here in 1962. Note: closed in July and August.
28is Oktovriou (Patission) 136, Kypseli, Athens 112 57
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07 · Jazz Bar · Kolonaki
Jazz in Jazz
Ten thousand records, a working gramophone and classic cocktails — no signatures. Opened in Crete in 1978, in Kolonaki since 1995.
Dinokratous 4, Dexameni, Kolonaki, Athens 106 75
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08 · Cocktail Bar · Kypseli
Argentina Social Club
Dry martinis, vinyl and tables spilling onto a quiet Kypseli square. Old-school, and the better for it.
Plateia Argentinis 16, Kipseli, Athina 114 72
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09 · Aperitivo · Neos Kosmos
Trio Noon Bar
Twenty-three square metres around a marble bar and the building's original quartz mosaic floor. Twisted classics, a short natural wine list — and the grilled cheese with kimchi mayonnaise.
Sismani 18, Neos Kosmos
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10 · Cocktail Bar · Vouliagmeni
Avra Bar
For a drink on the water: the Four Seasons Astir Palace bar in Vouliagmeni, with a seasonal Mediterranean cocktail menu written in chapters.
Apollonos 40, Vouliagméni
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