The Best Cocktail Bars in Colombia

The drinks list at this Bogotá cocktail bar is built around Territorio, a range of house-distilled spirits inspired by Colombia's ecosystems, each one mapped to a different landscape. Laura Espinosa, former sommelier at the celebrated Leo next door, runs the room and the project. The cocktails read deceptively simple on the menu, which is exactly the point. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

The illustrated cocktail menu alone earns its place on the table, each drink built around Colombian regional ingredients the way the kitchen next door builds its plates. This is the bar inside Carmen, and the bar director treats it as seriously as anyone treats the food, leaning on native fruits, panela, and plantain vinegar to make cocktails that feel specific to one country and nowhere else.

Polished vintage wood, red and gold light, and low-key beats set the mood at this intimate cocktail bar tucked into Zona G, Chapinero's upscale dining corridor. The drinks lean creative in ways that reward curiosity, pairing rum with chocolate and bitter aperitif, or gin with kefir and shiitake, without making a big fuss about it. A neighborhood place that happens to have a neighborhood worth traveling across the city for.