The Best Places to Drink in Hanoi

1. The 50 #83 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
2. The 50 Campari One To Watch Award 2025 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars

A dinosaur skeleton hangs above the bar, which sets the tone pretty efficiently. The Haflington is a two-floor cocktail bar in the Old Quarter styled after the great natural history museums of Europe, all soft lighting, fossils, and shelves of old books. The menu, called The Jungle Book, runs from obscure classics to house signatures. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks with how seriously the cocktails are taken here.

1. The 50 #87 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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1. The 50 #86 · Asia’s 50 Best Bars
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The Graham Greene Martini is a permanent fixture on an otherwise rotating seasonal cocktail list, which tells you something about the crowd the Metropole's poolside thatched-roof bar is playing to. It's a small, polished space, plush armchairs and a few counter seats, with bar snacks that drift between Vietnamese summer rolls and fish and chips without apology. Gin and colonial nostalgia, basically.

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

A suspended marlin hangs over the neon-lit bar at Use Bar, which is either arresting or unsettling depending on your relationship with taxidermy-scale sculpture. This cocktail bar in Hanoi organizes its menu by ingredient, each one spinning off into three distinct drinks, so grape alone accounts for a Verjus Aviation, a cobbler made with grape marc, and a grappa sour. It landed on The 50 Discovery list, and the concept earns it.

1. The 50 The 50 Discovery