The bar at the Avalon Hotel on Kungstorget is open to locals and hotel guests alike, from afterwork into the late evening. The focus is on comfort, service and craft, with classic cocktails and a broad drinks list. The bartenders like to experiment with flavours such as violet, lavender and orange blossom.
A bar on Kyrkogatan in central Gothenburg, in the grid of streets inside the old canal ring.
Bruk is a cocktail bar on Friggagatan built around Nordic cocktail culture, pairing Nordic elegance with a warm, welcoming room. Its bartenders and chefs work classic flavours with modern touches, with a list of house cocktails, signatures and classics alongside small and larger plates. On Fridays it runs an afterwork with a changing cocktail theme.
Hernö Gin Bar is the Göteborg cocktail bar of Hernö Gin, the gin distillery in Härnösand. The cocktail list is built on the distillery's gins, served with small and medium plates inspired by Nordic flavours, including a set of three cocktails matched with three dishes. It also runs bookable gin, gin and tonic and cocktail tastings.
Stranger calls itself a secret Spirit Bureau, tucked into a basement on Kungstorget with its door just left of the entrance to Tranquilo. The bar is built around cocktails, spirits and personal service, and it hosts events, private parties and cocktail tastings. It is walk-in only.
Victorian Steampunk Lab is a cocktail bar in central Göteborg set in a Victorian steampunk interior, where the bartenders make unusual and theatrical cocktails and pour wine. A restaurant section serves small plates for sharing, and in the basement the Laboratory runs bookable sessions with its resident chemists. There are board games in the bar.
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