Cocktail Bars in Dublin
This list includes one on The 50 Best Bars and one Spirited Awards nominee.
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- Bang Bang Bar at Teeling DistilleryCocktail Bar
Bang Bang Bar at Teeling Distillery
The in-house whiskey and cocktail bar on the first floor of the Teeling Whiskey Distillery in Newmarket, open to the public seven days a week without a distillery tour. It pours the full Teeling range plus exclusive single casks and vintage reserves, alongside signature whiskey cocktails such as the Dublin Coffee, with tasting booths overlooking Newmarket Square and a rooftop terrace.
Teeling Whiskey Distillery, 13-17 Newmarket, Dublin 8Daily 12pm–7:30pmFull profile - Peruke & PeriwigCocktail Bar
Peruke & Periwig
A theatrical Georgian townhouse cocktail bar on Dawson Street named after the wig-makers that once traded there. It serves cocktails inspired by music of all genres alongside craft beers, an extensive spirits and wine list, and a modern Irish dinner menu.
31 Dawson Street, Dublin 2Daily from 3pm, food from 5pmFull profile
More of Dublin
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Dublin guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 8 with a map and filters.
