Eight cocktail bars in Milan, including five on the 50 Best world list and four on Europe's 50 Best.

Lorenzo Querci's gastronomic-cultural complex in a former textile warehouse: Tapa Bistrot below, the Michelin-starred Sperimentale above, live music, a record store, and a cocktail bar built around a three-meter concrete wall of 300+ spirits with seven seats facing 'the cinema of mixology'. A 700-year-old Andalusian olive tree grows through two floors. Gio Allario leads the bar; Enrico Croatti the kitchens. No. 2 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, where it was named The Best Bar in Europe, after No. 7 in 2025. It was a Top 4 finalist for Best International Bar Team at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

Milan's most famous speakeasy, founded 2013 by the Farmily group, location and phone number deliberately unknown to most; if you know where to go, you know how to book, usually by introduction through a sister venue like Mag. Part chic hideaway, part Wonka-esque drinks laboratory: rotary evaporators and fermenters behind a candlelit marble bar, a 1960s jukebox spinning vinyl. No.22 in Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026 and a World's 50 Best fixture since 2019. It currently stands at No. 94 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026, after No. 43 in 2025.

The Milanese aperitivo since 1915: Gaspare Campari opened his caffè in the Galleria in 1867, and his son Davide, the first citizen born inside the Galleria, opened Camparino in 1915 with a pioneering chilled seltz system. Art Nouveau interiors by Quarti, Mazzucotelli and d'Andrea survive across three spaces: the stand-up Bar di Passo, the signature Sala Spiritello, and the reservation-only Sala Gaspare Campari. A World's 50 Best regular facing the Duomo. It currently stands at No. 18 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

A veteran of the Milan cocktail scene: Edoardo Nono's Navigli original, open since 2002, pioneered fresh seasonal ingredients and in-house preparations over artificial syrups, with associate partner Chiara Buzzi aboard since 2018. The list splits into Restoring, Refreshing and Relaxing, with barrel-aged options and proper food from vegetable croquettes to steak. No.49 in Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.
An all-day bar in the Ticinese area of Milan, decorated with motorcycles and vintage 1950s Milanese cars alongside leather seating and a Prohibition-styled bar counter. The cocktail program is run on sustainability principles. The venue also serves food, including Sunday brunch with a rotating menu.

Dario Comini's legendary fusion bar at Porta Monforte, operating since 1970 and a self-described pioneer of barchef mixology in Milan, clarifications, fermentations and scientific technique long before they were fashionable, served in a charmingly chaotic room of travel artefacts, hammocks, masks and endless spirits. A former regular of the World's 50 Best Bars list.
Dean and Dan Caten's (Dsquared2) rooftop trinity: two pools, Elio Sironi's fine-dining restaurant, and an American Bar where classic mixology gets an Italian rereading. The day arcs from poolside mornings through terrace lunches and tapas to aperitivo and after-dinner, every day of the year; the pools run June to September against the Milan skyline.
The pioneer of Milan's cocktails-and-pizza pairing, founded 2013 in Brera: Neapolitan pies by Lorenzo Sirabella (trained under Enzo Coccia) beside signature mixology from bar manager Edris Al Malat, in a warm, deliberately bare retro room. Eat, mix, experiment, share, recognized by 50 Top Pizza, Gambero Rosso and Forbes.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Milan guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 25 with a map and filters.