cocktail bars · bangalore
cocktail bars in bangalore
13 places from the bangalore list.
vibey cafe · koramangala · ₹₹₹in 3 guides
Toast & Tonic
House-made gin, capsicum-rosemary tonic, bacon old-fashioned. The Ashok Nagar bar that won the cocktail awards on purpose.
The cocktail program is the headline. They infuse their own gins and bottle their own tonics. Order the Garden Tonic or the Bacon Old Fashioned and stop deliberating.
vibey cafe · indiranagar · ₹₹₹in 3 guides
Sly Granny
Multi-floor Indiranagar gastropub disguised as a globetrotting grandmother's house. The rooftop is the reason, cocktails carry the rest.
Ask for the rooftop when you book. Twinkling lights, a sunset slot, and the kind of breeze that makes you forget you live in traffic.
fancy drinks · vasanth nagar · ₹₹₹₹
Soka
Cocktails by Avinash Kapoli, snacks by Sombir Choudhary, served under a cocoon lamp at one long wooden communal table.
The bar is the room. Pull up to it, let the bartenders run the show. The omakase-by-stealth experience.
fancy drinks · indiranagar · ₹₹₹₹
Bar Spirit Forward
Arijit Bose's 60-seat cocktail bar on Lavelle Road. Teak and granite, omakase-by-the-bar, no place to hide.
Sit at the bar. It's the whole point. A long teak counter where the bartenders work in front of you and explain what they're doing.
fancy drinks · old airport road · ₹₹₹₹
ZLB23
Kyoto-by-way-of-Prohibition speakeasy buried inside The Leela. The only Indian bar on Asia's 50 Best, and it earns it.
Reservations only, hidden entrance, the kind of place that makes you walk through three palace corridors to find it.
fancy drinks · old airport road · ₹₹₹₹
The Library Bar
Leather chairs, dark wood, 148 whiskies. The Leela's colonial-library bar where you order something rare and stay an hour.
148 whiskies and single malts, 78 wines. Ask the sommelier to recommend, don't pick blind.
fancy drinks · vasanth nagar · ₹₹₹₹
Olive Beach
Santorini-white villa in Vasanth Nagar. The Mediterranean date-night classic that's been getting it right since 2005.
The gate hides everything behind it. Vasanth Nagar traffic disappears the moment you sit in the alfresco lounge, which is the seat to ask for.
fancy drinks · multiple · ₹₹₹
Bombay Brasserie
Modern Indian small plates and a real cocktail program. The 12th Main flagship on Indiranagar pulls a louder, later crowd than its name suggests.
Four Bangalore locations now (Indiranagar, Orion Mall, Manyata, T2 Airport). Indiranagar is the one to plan around.
fancy drinks · malleshwaram · ₹₹₹₹
High Ultra Lounge
31st-floor rooftop on top of the World Trade Center. 10,000 sq ft, EDM, ISKCON's gopuram glowing in the middle distance.
Two zones: the bar counter inside, and an open-air seating area with a helipad on top. Aim for outside.
fancy drinks · ub city · ₹₹₹₹
Skyye
The old-guard 16th-floor rooftop at UB City. Bangalore from above, an underlit dance floor, Wednesdays for the regulars.
16th floor of UB City, panoramic from every angle. Get there before sunset, stay through the light change.
fancy drinks · indiranagar · ₹₹₹
1131 Bar + Kitchen
Three floors on Indiranagar 100ft Road. A golf simulator on one, community seating on the next, cocktails throughout.
Order the Curry Patta vodka cocktail with a rock-salt rim. It's a gimmick that works.
fancy drinks · bangalore · ₹₹₹
Xochi Bar & Kitchen
Two-floor Outer Ring Road room in Bellandur that takes its cocktail program seriously. The east-side option when you don't want to drive across town.
Pan-Asian, North Indian, continental on the menu — wide on paper, but the bar is where the team actually pays attention. Sit at the counter, don't order off the printed list.
fancy drinks · koramangala · ₹₹₹
Myu Bar at Gilly's
Ground floor of Gilly's Redefined in Koramangala. Alfresco seats, pop-culture art on the walls, three floors of options above.
Sit downstairs at Myu, then climb up to Fandom on the first floor when the comedy or live-music kicks in.