Cocktail Bars in Mumbai
Mumbai's cocktail bars range from hotel lounges to small rooms built on technique. Paradox in Mahalaxmi works with clarification and ultrasonic extraction, Late Checkout in a Lower Parel mill leans savory, with umeshu and mushroom bitters, and Slink & Bardot in Worli reaches for kaffir lime, turmeric and chili syrup. PCO, short for Pass Code Only, opens its door by Kamala Mills to a code. House of Paloma off Linking Road is tequila-led, La Panthera in Bandra Kurla Complex keeps a low-ABV section, and KMC Bar & Bistro mixes Indian spices in Fort's Kitab Mahal. The Bombay Canteen placed at No. 69 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025. These are the fourteen we would start with.
ASIA'S 50 BESTCocktail BarThe Bombay Canteen
The Bombay Canteen celebrates the diversity of Indian produce with playful storytelling about its city, contemporary dishes on hyper-seasonal local ingredients beside the 'Make Mine A Bombay' cocktail program, now in its fifth edition, where house-made spiced falernum and garam masala bitters rework the classics. No. 69 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025.
Order thisBee's KneesShort Story gin, Himalayan honey, lemonUnit-1, Process House, S.B. Road, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013Mon-Fri 12pm-1:30am, Sat-Sun 11am-1:30amFull profile
ASIA'S 50 BESTCocktail BarAmericano
Americano is a neighborhood restaurant and bar in a Kala Ghoda side street, opened by chef Alex Sanchez and restaurateur Mallyeka Watsa and run by Ek Number Hospitality. The kitchen follows Sanchez's produce-led, pared-back cooking, and the bar runs its own cocktail list alongside it. It has been ranked on 30 Best Bars India in five editions, most recently No. 10 in 2025, and placed No. 57 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2023.
Radha Bhavan, 121/123 Nagindas Master Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001 Sunday : 12–4 pm, 7 pm–1 am Monday Closed Tuesday Closed Wednesday :7 pm–1 am Thursday : 7 pm–1 am Friday : 7 pm–1 am Saturday 12–4 pm, 7 pm–1 amFull profile- Bandra Born30 BEST BARS INDIACocktail Bar
Bandra Born
Bandra Born is chef Gresham Fernandes's restaurant and bar on Chapel Road, which began as a 12-week pop-up and stayed on as a permanent fixture. The bar is built around mahua, the spirit distilled from the flower of the mahua tree, with negronis, highballs and coladas made on Six Brothers small-batch mahua, and the kitchen cooks the Catholic, East Indian and Anglo-Indian food of the neighborhood. It placed No. 24 on 30 Best Bars India in 2024 and No. 17 in 2025, and won the 2024 award for Best Non-Alcoholic Bar Menu.
Rose Minar, 87 Chapel Road, Reclamation, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050Daily 12pm-3:30pm, 7pm-1amFull profile 
30 BEST BARS INDIARooftop BarAER
One of India's most iconic rooftop bars, AER crowns the Four Seasons Mumbai's 34th floor with panoramic views of the skyline and the Arabian Sea, split between the ocean-facing Yacht Club under its retractable roof and the botanical Gimlet Garden. Globally inspired tapas run from Bangkok-style satay to Milanese arancini, with DJ-backed Sunday brunches and a dress code.
Order thisCoco Curetequila, mezcal, grapefruit, brown butter34th Floor, Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai, 1/136 Dr. E. Moses Road, Worli, Mumbai 400018Daily 5pm-1:30am; Sunday brunch 12:30pm-5pm (21+)Full profile- Slink & Bardot30 BEST BARS INDIACocktail Bar
Slink & Bardot
What began as an outlying electronic-music venue became one of Worli's destination restaurant-bars: Slink & Bardot splits into a pared-back dining room and a darker, intimate bar of velvet seating and decorative wallpaper. The list runs light fruit serves into darker combinations on local ingredients, kaffir lime, turmeric, chilli syrup, with the Paanch punch reaching back to the 16th century.
Order thisPaanch16th-century punch reinterpreted: turmeric-infused gin, ginger, honey, fresh citrus, tonic329/A Thadani House, opposite Indian Coast Guard, Worli, Mumbai 400030Full profile - PCO Mumbai30 BEST BARS INDIASpeakeasy
PCO Mumbai
PCO stands for Pass Code Only, and the house calls itself India's first speakeasy: the door opens to a code, as the name says. The Mumbai room stands beside the Kamala Mills gate on Senapati Bapat Marg in Lower Parel, and describes its cocktails as meticulously crafted, each with a story inspired by fabrics from PCO's historic textile house, served in what it calls an intimate atmosphere.
NRK House, Kamala Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013Full profile 
30 BEST BARS INDIACocktail BarHouse of Nomad
The Taj Lands End's 'luxury gastro bar' shifts smoothly between dining and socialising, a sleek, club-like room in Bandra West pouring signature cocktails, premium spirits and world wines over multi-cuisine finger food (the sushi is the local calling card). Smart casual.
Taj Lands End, BJ Road, Mount Mary, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050, IndiaDaily 5pm-1:30amFull profile
30 BEST BARS INDIAHotel BarHarbour Bar
Harbor Bar is a hotel bar located in Mumbai. It holds the city's first bar license.
The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai 400001Full profile
Cocktail BarBombay Daak
Bombay Daak is a 30-seat bar in Bandra's Reclamation from chef Niyati Rao and Sagar Neve, the team behind Ekaa, built around the Indian daaru-and-chakna idea of drinks with bar snacks. Its cocktails draw on regional Indian ingredients such as noon chai, rasam, besan ghee and Malvani masala, and the walls carry hand-painted botanical tiles. Bar plates such as duck puffs and fried bombil follow the same regional brief.
Shop 5/21, ONGC Complex, HIG Colony, Nityanand Nagar, Reclamation, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050Daily 6pm-1:30amFull profile
Cocktail BarLa Panthera
La Panthera is a restaurant and cocktail bar on the ground floor of INS Tower in the Bandra Kurla Complex, with coffered ceilings, columns, brass chandeliers and a marble-clad bar. The kitchen serves modern European food, and the drinks list is split between signature and low-ABV cocktails and a pricier fine-cocktail section, with pairings suggested against the menu. A second La Panthera has opened in the Eros building at Churchgate.
Ground Floor, Units 1 and 2, INS Tower, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400098Daily 12pm-4pm, 6:30pm-1:30amFull profile
Cocktail BarLate Checkout
Late Checkout is a cocktail bar and kitchen in a former textile warehouse in Lower Parel's Mathuradas Mill compound, from Pawan and Nikita Shahri, the team behind Gigi and Lyla. The room keeps the mill's 21-foot ceilings and skylight, with a metal and wood bar and three seating areas, and the cocktails lean savory, with umeshu, fat-washed spirits and mushroom bitters among the ingredients. The kitchen serves Asian-leaning bar plates, and a buggy carries guests through the compound.
126 Mathuradas Mill Compound, H L N Marg, Delisle Road, Lower Parel West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013Wed-Fri 7pm-1am, Sat-Sun 12pm-4pm, 7pm-1am, closed Mon-TueFull profile
Cocktail BarParadox
Paradox is a cocktail bar in the Shree Laxmi Woollen Mills compound in Mahalaxmi, opened in 2025 by Aditi and Aditya Dugar, the couple behind the tasting-menu restaurant Masque. The drinks are by Ankush Gamre and lean on house techniques such as clarification and ultrasonic extraction, set out in a zine-style menu, with chef Varun Totlani's small plates alongside. The Ashiesh Shah-designed space has hand-embroidered silk walls at the upstairs bar and a tented fumoir at the back.
G17, Shree Laxmi Woollen Mills, Shakti Mills Lane, off Dr E Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400011Tue-Sun 6pm-1:30am, closed MonFull profile- House of PalomaCocktail Bar
House of Paloma
House of Paloma is an agave-led cocktail bar off Linking Road in Bandra, with a menu built on Latin American flavors and split into sweet, spicy and aromatic sections. The 2,900 sq ft space by architect Sumessh Menon has 33 seats inside and 42 outside and hangs large works by Goan artist Siddharth Kerkar. Head mixologist M Sunil Prathab developed the list with consultants Rahul Raghav and Karl Fernandes.
545 Excel Entertainment Building, Ground Floor, 33rd Road, near Linking Road, Pali Village, Khar West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400052Mon 5pm-1:30am, Tue-Sun 12pm-1:30amFull profile - KMC Bar & BistroCocktail Bar
KMC Bar & Bistro
KMC Bar & Bistro occupies the first floor of Kitab Mahal, a heritage building in Fort facing Azad Maidan, with tall windows looking towards CST and the BMC building. It is run by chef Niyati Rao and Sagar Neve of Nisa Experience, the team behind Ekaa and Bombay Daak, and the letters stand for khana, mehfil, charcha. The cocktail list works Indian spices and herbs such as khus, cumin and coriander into reworked classics, alongside a range of small-batch house liqueurs.
1st Floor, Kitab Mahal, 192 Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road, Azad Maidan, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001Daily 11am-4pm, 6:30pm-1amFull profile
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