Speakeasies in New Delhi
This list includes three on The World's 50 Best Bars and four on Asia's 50 Best.
50 BESTSpeakeasySidecar
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 acidM-29, First Floor, M Block Market, Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi 110048Daily 10am-1am (walk-ins only)Full profile
ASIA'S 50 BESTSpeakeasyLair
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 liqueur15 Market, Basant Lok, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057Full profile- 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 closedFull profile - PCOASIA'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 110057Full profile
More of New Delhi
These are the speakeasies specifically. The full New Delhi guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 18 with a map and filters.
