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The 6 Best Bars in Athens

Athens took first and second place when Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026 made its debut, and its bars now build drinks on Greek ingredients, starting at sundown. The best bars in Athens start ten minutes from downtown at Line, opened in 2022 in a former art gallery, fifth in the world for 2026 and The Best Bar in Europe 2026, where classics get house ferments and house fruit wines rethink Greek produce. The Bar in Front of the Bar, out on Petraki street in Monastiraki, is No. 19 and won this year's Highest Climber Award; its menu changes daily and its glassware sits in a freezer at minus 24 degrees. The Clumsies in central Athens keeps a private upstairs Room, Baba au Rum, opened in 2009, stocks over 400 rums behind the bar, Barro Negro was the city's first tequila and mezcal bar, and Naked clarifies its drinks. Book The Clumsies' Room ahead for groups of six to ten. These are the six we would start with.

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  1. Line
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    Line

    Named The Best Bar in Europe on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026, and No. 5 on The 50 Best Bars 2026 (No. 8 in 2025) with the Sustainable Bar Award, Line is the Kato Petralona project of Vasilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis (The Clumsies) with Dimitris Dafopoulos (Three Cents). In a former art-gallery warehouse, the bar runs a circular, zero-waste model: house-fermented fruit wines (the 'Why-ins', made with winemaker Thanos Georgilas), its own beers and sourdough, and drinks like the Delusional Margarita of mustard, ketchup and potato water.

    Order thisDelusional Margaritareposado tequila, mustard, ketchup, potato water, spices
    Agathodemonos 37, Orestou 1, 118 53 Athens
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  2. The Bar in Front of the Bar
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    The Bar in Front of the Bar

    What began in 2021 as a pop-up hatch covering a closed indoor bar became No.2 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026: a street-side, zero-waste stand with no indoor seating, a digital sign of rotating one-liners, and eight daily-changing cocktails built from prep scraps on classical structures. Founders Alexandros Tselepis, Konstantinos Theodorakopoulos and Simeon Papanikolaou run traditional sibling Rumble in the Jungle behind it. 'Streets are the new family.' It sits at No. 19 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, up from No. 47 in 2025, and received the Highest Climber Award at The 50 Best Bars 2026.

    Order thisC.R.E.A.M.icy tsipouro, mastic and Greek herbs with a warm white-chocolate and coconut float
    Petraki 1, Monastiraki, Athens 105 63
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  3. Barro Negro
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    Barro Negro

    Athens' first tequila and mezcal bar, and the world's first designated 'Paloma Embassy', Barro Negro brings the energy of Oaxaca to Klafthmonos Square. Founders George Kavaklis and Stelios Papadopoulos run an agave-education program alongside tacos and serves like the Birria Martini. No. 40 on The 50 Best Bars 2026 after five consecutive years in its top 100 (No. 62 on the 51-100 list in 2025), and No.13 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

    Order thisLos AbuelosElala blanco tequila, Bruxo X mezcal, olive oil, herbal liqueur, fennel, aromatic salt
    Ioannou Paparrigopoulou 15, Athens 105 61
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  4. Baba au Rum
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    Baba au Rum

    Thanos Prunarus's 'Rum and Cocktail Society' has flown the flag for Athens since the start, a back bar of more than 400 rums, an aviation-themed narrative, produce from local farmers and a standing tribute to Tiki. On The World's 50 Best Bars in 2013 and every year from 2016 to 2025, when it placed No. 27; it is No. 55 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026. It won World's Best Spirits Selection at the 2024 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. It sits at No. 14 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

    Order thisBaba's Zombiefive aged rums, fresh tropical juices, bitters, spices, falernum
    Klitiou 6, Psyri, Athens 105 60Daily 19:00-03:00
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  5. The Clumsies
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    The Clumsies

    Opened in 2014 by Greek World Class champions Vasilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis with Lefteris Georgopoulos, Thanos Tsounakas and Giorgos Kaissaris, The Clumsies fills a restored neoclassical townhouse with its all-day philosophy of 'perfect imperfection', coffee and food by day, DJs and dancing by night, regional Greek ingredients in the glass throughout. Once No.3 in the world (2020), No.30 on Europe's 50 Best 2026; ask about The Room, the hidden fireplace-and-billiards space for six to ten.

    Order thisMediterranean GimletStar of Bombay gin, 'Greek salad cordial', tomato water, cucumber, red pepper, olives, oregano
    Praxitelous 30, Athens 105 61All day, daily
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  1. Naked
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    Naked

    Naked says the name means more than the absence of barriers: simplicity, vulnerability, authenticity and unfiltered expression, a room stripped of pretense where guests are free to be plain, unadorned and true. The decor, it says, is not in the furniture or the lights but in the laughter, the conversations and the energy people bring. Cocktail, food and brunch menus, tables bookable online.

    Plateia Agias Irinis 2, Monastiraki, Athens 105 60
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