The Best Bars in Ireland
On the record: one Spirited Awards nominee, one with Pinnacle Guide pins.
50 BESTCocktail BarBar 1661
An independent, poitín-focused cocktail bar in Dublin 7 that styles itself staunchly Irish, and is home of the Belfast Coffee. Accolades include Ireland's Cocktail Bar of the Year 2023, a World's Top 50 Cocktail Menus listing and Innovator of the Year 2025. It was a Top 4 finalist for World's Best Cocktail Menu at the 2025 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.
1-5 Green Street, Dublin 7Mon–Thu 5pm–late, Fri–Sun 2pm–lateFull profile
Cocktail Bar9 Below
A basement cocktail bar beneath the historic Stephen's Green Hibernian Club, spread across four intimate rooms. It specializes in craft cocktails with menus drawing on surrealist art and color theory, and also operates as a private events space.
9 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2Tue–Sat 4pm–late, Sun 5pm–lateFull profile
Cocktail BarThe Sackville Lounge
The Sackville Lounge is an intimate city-center bar from the team behind BAR 1661, one of Dublin's best known cocktail rooms. It sets out to evoke an older kind of Dublin pub, one that stayed busy late and took its drinks seriously, without leaning on nostalgia alone. The room is low-lit and deliberately glamorous, and the list is cocktail-led rather than pub-standard. DJs play into the early hours on Friday and Saturday nights. No reservation is required, which makes it a walk-in room rather than a booking one, and a useful late option in the city center.
16 Sackville Pl, North City, Dublin 1, D01 V0C7Full profile- The Collins ClubHotel Bar
The Collins Club
The Collins Club is the cocktail bar by the lobby of The Leinster hotel on Mount Street Lower, in the heart of Georgian Dublin. It is named as a tribute to David Collins, the architect and interior designer born in Dublin in 1955 who trained at the Bolton School of Architecture and founded David Collins Studio in 1985. The hotel promises immersive cocktails amid Georgian glamour, built on a menu of reinvented classics from a team it calls bold creators, working both behind the bar and in its lab. The bar serves martinis alongside laid-back bites, and DJs play on Friday and Saturday nights.
The Leinster, 7 Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 WK33Tue-Thu 4pm-12am; Fri-Sat 4pm-1am; Sun closedFull profile - The Sidecar at The WestburyHotel Bar
The Sidecar at The Westbury
The Sidecar is the cocktail bar of The Westbury hotel on Balfe Street in Dublin 2. The hotel pitches it as a modern, elegant reworking of a 1930s cocktail bar, and the room has Art Deco interiors. Martinis are made by hand at the table from a bespoke Martini Trolley. The current cocktail menu, Dublin Unfiltered, is the bar's newest cocktail concept and runs to eighteen individually crafted drinks, each one conceived and created by bar manager Oisin Kelly to celebrate what being a Dubliner means. Food is served daily alongside the cocktails.
The Westbury, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, D02 CH66Mon-Thu 2pm-11:30pm; Fri-Sat 12pm-12:30am; Sun 12pm-11pmFull profile
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