This list includes two on Asia's 50 Best.

Soka calls itself a neighborhood bar with a global point of view, founded in Bengaluru by the chef Sombir Choudhary and the bartender Avinash Kapoli under the line Kickass Cocktails and Super Snacks. Signature drinks include Made in Heaven and Cheese Cherry Pineapple, and the bar runs recurring platforms hosting visiting bartenders and chefs.

A cocktail bar on the ground floor of Hotel Southern Star on Lavelle Road. It focuses on spirit-led, technically precise cocktails served alongside a seasonally changing menu of bar snacks drawing on pan-Indian and international influences. The bar holds No. 30 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Muro calls itself a modern Asian social club, which in practice means a bar, a restaurant and a coffee destination under one roof on Museum Road. The cocktail list is written, in its words, to keep pace with the kitchen, which cooks Thai and Cantonese, and it is poured from an island bar on the ground floor under hanging brass lights. The bar menu opens with the line that bold decisions require liquid courage; the breakfast menu answers that bold mornings require liquid sunshine. Weekdays from noon, weekends from nine in the morning, and one in the morning every night.

The Reservoire describes itself as India's largest cocktail bar and a beacon for cocktail aficionados and culinary explorers alike, with a list of more than 200 cocktails and a design that takes its cue from the bars of New York. The Koramangala original, open since 2017, spreads over several levels up to a rooftop under a retractable roof, and the bar counts being pet friendly and green among the things it is proud of. It opens every day at half past eleven in the morning and runs until one.
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These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Bengaluru guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 14 with a map and filters.