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The 6 Best Bars in New Delhi

New Delhi's best cocktail bars gather in South Delhi, and two of them share Basant Lok market in Vasant Vihar. The best bars in New Delhi start in Basant Lok at Lair, a speakeasy-style room opened in December 2020 that draws ingredients from across India; it was No. 8 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025, which named it India's best bar. In the same market, Hoots' is an intimate, dimly lit cocktail room on a first floor. Aabbcc, a self-styled retro-futuristic archive, is No. 85 on the 51-100 list of Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026. Elsewhere in Vasant Vihar, PCO, which calls itself India's first speakeasy, has hidden behind a phone booth since 2012, and its passcode for entry changes a few times a week. In Greater Kailash II, Sidecar has poured since 2018 above a bank and was No. 14 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2022, and Home, in Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj, pairs cocktails with live entertainment. Aabbcc takes reservations by phone. These are the six we would start with.

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  1. Sidecar
    50 BESTSpeakeasy

    Sidecar

    Yangdup Lama and Minakshi Singh's wood-panelled neighborhood speakeasy has anchored GK-2 since 2018, coffee from 10am, cocktails from 1pm, live music, and menu chapters that have run from 'Dear Delhi' to the current ARQ. It reached No. 26 on The World's 50 Best Bars in 2022 and was No. 62 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025. Walk-ins only.

    Order thisSidecarcognac, bourbon, roasted corn, lime acid
    M-29, First Floor, M Block Market, Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi 110048Daily 10am-1am (walk-ins only)
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  2. Lair
    ASIA'S 50 BESTSpeakeasy

    Lair

    The Best Bar in India 2025, No. 8 on Asia's 50 Best Bars, the year's highest new entry, and No. 96 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list that year. Lair is a film-noir speakeasy in Vasant Vihar from Jairaj Singh Solanki and Dhruv Raj Vij: three levels of black concrete, glass and geometry, cocktails on levels one and three around a pan-Asian dining room, with a menu that progresses through beginner, intermediate and superior chapters built on regional Indian ingredients.

    Order thisBlueberry Cheesecakeblueberry, cream liqueur
    15 Market, Basant Lok, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057
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  3. Hoots'
    ASIA'S 50 BESTSpeakeasy

    Hoots'

    Hoots' calls itself a cocktail room, and its own shorthand is bar, speakeasy, spirit forward, classic. It sits on the first floor of Basant Lok market in Vasant Vihar and keeps to the scale of a small room, with the house line that you do you and it will shake the cocktails. It ranked No. 26 on Asia's 50 Best Bars in 2022, and was on the 51-100 list at No. 59 in 2021 and No. 60 in 2023. Open Tuesday to Sunday from six in the evening until one, closed on Monday.

    18-A, 1st Floor, Basant Lok Market, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057Tue-Sun 6pm-1am, Mon closed
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  4. Home
    ASIA'S 50 BESTCocktail Bar

    Home

    Home describes itself as a fine dining restaurant and cocktail bar in South Delhi, with a kitchen that moves between modern Indian, European and Japanese and a bar led by its beverage head, Santanu Chanda. The house language is liquid artistry in every sip, cocktails built by its own mixologists on the third floor of Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj. It placed No. 30 on Asia's 50 Best Bars in 2022, then No. 58 in 2023 and No. 96 in 2024 on the 51-100 list. Open every day from noon until one in the morning.

    3rd Floor, Ambience Mall Vasant Kunj, 2 Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj II, New Delhi 110070Daily 12pm-1am
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  5. Aabbcc
    ASIA'S 50 BESTCocktail Bar

    Aabbcc

    AABBCC is a three-level bar and restaurant in Basant Lok Market, Vasant Vihar, opened in 2025 by the team behind Lair. Its list is arranged in three chapters, Yesterday for classics rebuilt with modern technique, Today for global flavors met with local ones, and Tomorrow for the experimental, around a mezzanine laboratory and a small omakase-style bar.

    First Floor, 57 Basant Lok Market, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057
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  1. PCO
    ASIA'S 50 BESTSpeakeasy

    PCO

    India's first genuine speakeasy: since 2012, entry to PCO has run through an unassuming phone booth where you type a passcode that changes two or three times a week. Inside, an early-1900s room of vintage telephones and antique books serves pre-Prohibition classics and the bespoke Mood Cocktail, built to each guest's preferences. The flagship of Pass Code Hospitality.

    D-4, Block A Market, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057
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