‹🍸 Bars: cocktails & wine›
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Psyri & Monastiraki
🍸 6Wine is Fine
🍷 wine €6–9 · 🍽️ plate €10–13
A French-bistro-style natural-wine bar that works as a small restaurant, with a full seasonal menu of French-Greek small plates and white tablecloths on pedestrian Vissis St. It is walk-in only with a long waitlist. Two Frenchmen, Rafael Wallon-Brownstone and Thomas Brengou, run it with Greek chef Stavros Chrysafidis, in a 70s-chic interior.
🍸 7Booze Cooperativa (K.O.T.E.S.)
🍺 beer €8
A multi-level arty bar and cultural space with galleries and a performance basement, open from late morning. By day people come for coffee, chess and backgammon, and at night it turns into a loud bar with indoor smoking. Founded in 1989 in a neoclassical building, it has also been the headquarters of K.O.T.E.S., a tongue-in-cheek smokers' party, since 2018.
🍸 8Cantina Social
🍸 cocktail €6.50–10
An unsigned courtyard and garden bar at the end of an alley off Leokoriou in Psyrri/Thiseio. It is a café by day and a dance bar at night with resident DJs (techno, indie, disco), cheap drinks and late hours. It is set in an old lodge and is a locals' hangout.
🍸 9Couleur Locale
🍸 cocktail €12 · 🍺 beer €6
An all-day rooftop bar and bistro in a Monastiraki arcade by the flea market, with a direct Acropolis view. Coffee and brunch by day, then a cocktail bar with DJs and jazz, soul and rock at night, plus light food. It opened in 2014 on the top floor of a shabby-looking building.
🍸 10TAF - The Art Foundation
A courtyard café-bar in an art complex with galleries and a shop, in 1870s residential buildings around a tree-filled courtyard. Coffee by day, beers and simple cocktails at night, with an arty young crowd and underground music. It has run since about 2014.
🍸 11Retiré (at Ergon House)
🍸 cocktail €13 · 🍺 beer €6
A seasonal (April to October) third-floor rooftop bar on the Ergon House food hall and hotel, with Acropolis views. Cocktails by The Clumsies come from a cocktail truck, with Greek wines, beers and light bites. Casual and walk-in only.
Plaka, Syntagma & historic centre
🍸 16The Clumsies
🍸 cocktail €14
A cocktail bar in a townhouse, open all day across several floors but mainly a cocktail destination, with a small food menu. Vassilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis founded it in 2014. It has been on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2015, peaking at No. 3 in 2020.
🍸 17Baba Au Rum
🍸 cocktail €11
A rum-focused cocktail bar in Psyrri with 400+ rums and tropical, retro decor. No reservations. Open for over 15 years, it is a regular on the World's 50 Best Bars list (No. 27 in 2025).
🍸 18Blue Bird
A tiny (about 23 m²) cocktail bar on pedestrian Ipitou street near Syntagma, open evenings and nights. At weekends it spills onto the street and square with resident DJs and a street-party crowd. It calls itself a 'bar for exotic birds' and started out serving only spirits.
Gazi, Kerameikos & Metaxourgeio
🍸 21Beauty Killed the Beast
🍺 beer €6 · 🍽️ plate €9.5 · ☕ coffee €3.3
An all-day café-bar on the pedestrian part of Paramythias in Kerameikos: coffee and brunch by day, DJs and cocktails at night, with a garden. It is in a restored 1930s neoclassical mansion with King Kong art on the facade.
Exarchia, Omonia & north centre
🍸 35Teleion (Τέλειον)
Telion occupies the old Τέλειον patisserie on Ithakis Street, a Kypseli landmark for about a century, and keeps its wooden display cases, marble floor and counters; you enter through an old lift door. It opened in June 2025 as an audiophile bar playing jazz, afro and disco from vinyl and CDs, with a DJ booth in the middle of the room and guest DJs mostly on Friday and Saturday nights, when the crowd dances between the two wooden bars. Popi Sevastou's short menu covers stirred classics, two gin and tonics and four signatures such as a 50/50 Martini and an apricot-sherry Negroni. Closed Sunday and Monday.
🍸 36The Mule & The Pig
A small bar at the junction of Zoodochou Pigis and Valtetsiou in Exarchia, described by in.gr as a 'kafeneio with a bar' run by a bohemian crew with deep ties to the neighbourhood; it has a sister bar on Anafi. It promises 'no fancy drinks': classic spirits in 70 ml pours, plus craft beer and wine, with DJ evenings announced on Instagram. Reviewers love the curated music, the staff and the open front onto street life; smoking is allowed indoors.
🍸 37Luxus Cocktail Bar
An Exarchia cocktail bar on the corner of Valtetsiou and Charilaou Trikoupi, open since 2011 and an early champion of mixology in Athens. Its list of about 75 cocktails, drawn from different eras and places, has not changed since opening day; signatures include the Brownskin Gal (aged rum, ginger, passion fruit), a chilli-infused Zombie and a house French 75. Inside is mid-war Bauhaus decor; outside are plenty of tables for people-watching. On Tuesdays and Thursdays happy hour runs all day with €6 cocktails. It also serves coffee and beer from the morning, and locals say it draws artists and actors.
🍸 38Bar Ideal
Bar Ideal opened in summer 2025 in the former Jarmusch on Kiafas Street's small pedestrian square; its sign says 'Not in Athens', which many people take for its name. The tiny room looks like a 1950s film set and works as a listening bar, with vinyl through a hi-fi system (funk, soul, jazz, rock and experimental house), guest DJs, and a Sunday 'Bootlegs' night of old hip hop; the crowd spills out onto the square. Drinks come from 2024 Greek World Class winner Hector Vezyrgiannis, with signatures like a Creamy Daiquiri with pastry cream and Purple Rain with rum, coconut and pineapple.
🍸 39Don't be a D!ck
An Exarchia 'soft clubbing' bar opened in autumn 2025, with 48-hour sourdough pizza from a wood-fired oven and clean cocktails early, then DJ sets (italo and space disco, funk). Downstairs is the pink-tiled 'Toilet Room' with a disco ball and a no-photo policy. The look is 70s-80s Fiorucci.
Kolonaki & Lycabettus
🍸 50Jazz in Jazz
Jazz in Jazz started in Agia Galini, Crete, in 1978 and has been on Deinokratous at the foot of Lycabettus since the mid-1990s. It is a small jazz museum of a bar, with musician portraits, instruments, a wall of vinyl and a 'Sorry No Requests' sign. Recorded trad jazz and blues play at conversation volume while the bartenders pour from a long whisky and bourbon list or make classic cocktails such as the Old Fashioned. There are no DJ nights and no dance floor.
Pangrati, Mets & Ilisia
🍸 65Chelsea Hotel (bar)
🍸 cocktail €6–8 · 🍺 beer from €3
Not a hotel: a bohemian corner café-bar on Plastira Square in a former grocery. Coffee by day, then a busy, cheap neighbourhood bar with craft beer and simple cocktails at night. A Pangrati favourite with young locals.
Acropolis, Koukaki, Thissio & Petralona
🍸 70Tarzan
Tarzan is a small bar on Agion Asomaton square in Thiseio, opened in March 2021 by childhood friends Giorgos and Nikos. Its own Instagram promises fine spirits, classic cocktails and 'a pure analog sound system. Only vinyls', with DJs behind the decks; it opens at 5pm and stays open until 3am most nights. Reviewers mention the cosy atmosphere, friendly staff, the square outside and snacks like corn dogs.
🍸 71Drupes & Drips
A tiny Koukaki spot with specialty coffee and juices in the morning, then an Italian-style spritz and cicchetti bar. Evenings bring Greek and Italian natural wines, prosecco and raki with cured meats and cheese boards.
🍸 72Epta Martyres (Seven Martyrs)
🍽️ plate €5
A Neos Kosmos/Koukaki wine bar with a Volos-tsipouradiko-style kitchen and 150+ Greek and European low-intervention labels, many of them magnums, with 10+ by the glass. Small seafood and meze plates are sent out as you drink, a Volos custom. It opened in 2024 and quickly became a hangout.
🍸 73Line
🍸 cocktail €10–11 · 🍺 beer €6–7.50 · 🍷 wine €6.50–7.50 · 🍽️ plate €9–15.50
Line is the Kato Petralona bar from The Clumsies' founders, opened in 2022 in a former art gallery and run around fermentation and zero waste, including its own grape-less fruit wines called Why-Ins. In 2026 it topped the first Europe's 50 Best Bars list. Cocktails are twisted classics, served with house beers, sourdough bread and a full food menu; no DJ nights are documented, so this is a place to drink and eat rather than to dance.
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🍽️ 28To Rini
🍸 cocktail €8 · 🍺 beer €6 · 🍽️ plate €17 · ☕ coffee €2.3
A tiny chef-run all-day bistro by the National Archaeological Museum, with a quiet patio. Coffee and brunch from the morning, then modern takes on Greek comfort dishes from seasonal produce, with natural Greek wines, in the evening.
🪩 40Skullbar
An underground bar that is an alternative coffee bar by day and a dance club by night. It is best known for weekend after-hours techno and house parties starting around 05:00.
🖼️ 43Romantso
A creative hub in the former printing works of 'Romantso' magazine. It combines a start-up incubator, artist studios and residencies with a café-bar and a busy programme of exhibitions, parties and concerts.
🪩 51Rock'n'Roll
A bar-restaurant by day and early evening (burgers, pizza, tacos), then a crowded late party bar with DJs, party nights and live acts. A Kolonaki institution since 1987, with a mixed-age crowd from the smart Kolonaki set.
🍽️ 78Krabo
🍺 beer €8 · 🍷 wine €10 · 🍽️ plate €17–25
A seasonal beach restaurant and bar in the small Zoska cove at Kavouri, with paid sunbeds and cabanas. Lunch under a pergola is Mediterranean seafood, pasta and meze with Greek wines, followed by sunset cocktails.