The 24 Best Places to Drink in Athens
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The best places to drink in Athens, according to the experts: The Pinnacle Guide, The 50, and Difford's Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Line comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Athina.
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Baba au Rum and The Bar in Front of the Bar hold the next two places. Difford's Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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Rank 1. Line
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 3 Pins
- The 50 The 50: #8 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #1 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 2. Baba au Rum
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: #27 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 #27 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award 2025 · The World's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 3. The Bar in Front of the Bar
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 2 Pins
- The 50 The 50: #47 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #2 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 4. Barro Negro
Mexican
Athens' first tequilaria, Barro Negro built its identity around agave spirits long before the city caught on. The shelves lean heavily toward tequila and mezcal, sipped neat or shaken into Margaritas, and the bar holds the world's first Paloma Embassy designation, which is as good a reason as any to start there. Ranked on both Europe's and the World's 50 Best Bars lists, it pairs a serious drinks program with tacos, making the argument that this was always a food group.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #62 · The World's 50 Best Bars
- The 50 The 50: #13 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 1 Pin
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Rank 5. The Clumsies
Greek Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The Pinnacle Guide The Pinnacle Guide: 2 Pins
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: #30 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 #30 · Europe's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 6. Odori
Cocktail Bar
Odori built its reputation around vermouth at a time when Athens wasn't paying much attention to it, and the bar has been pulling that thread ever since. Large French windows open onto terrace tables, while inside golden counters, verdant wallpaper, and ornate birdcages create a room that feels like it belongs on a different continent. The drinks list roams through vermouth varieties and brands, including the bar's own, with an eye toward low-ABV and aperitif drinking.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 7. A for Athens
Cocktail Bar
The rooftop cocktail bar perched above the Monastiraki flea market with the Acropolis filling the horizon is doing a lot of heavy lifting on its own, but the menu still tries to keep up. Drinks are organized around ideas, love and hope and realism, which is either pretentious or charming depending on how many you've had. The spirits range widely, with small Greek breweries and local wines keeping things grounded.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 8. 42 Barstronomy
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 8. The Trap
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Tables spill out onto the pedestrian street of Athens' old textile quarter, and the double-height windowed walls keep things airy enough that you forget it's technically a bar. Senios runs from morning coffee through late-night cocktails without making a big deal of it, which is kind of the point: the team behind The Clumsies wanted to revive the idea of the neighborhood café-bar where nobody's in a rush to turn the table.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 10. Upupa Epops
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Barreldier
Italian Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. CV Distiller
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Heteroklito Cave and Bar à Vin
Greek Wine Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Ipitou
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. K8 Point
Mediterranean Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Kolokotroni 9
Rum Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Kyrios
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Noel
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. Rehab
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 12. The Seven Jokers
Beer Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 4 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 22. Alexander Bar at Hotel Grande Bretagne
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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Rank 22. Zonar's
Café
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide