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The Best Bars in Providence

Providence pours its serious cocktails in old buildings with long memories. The best bars in Providence sit Downtown, on Spruce Street and in Federal Hill, the city's Little Italy around Atwells Avenue. In Federal Hill, Courtland Club at 51 Courtland Street hides behind a door with no sign and a keypad and keeps twin bakery ovens in its back wall. Loma on Spruce Street, which won Best New Bar at the 2026 James Beard Awards, plays Latin jazz and boleros in a room modeled on a Latin American home bar of the 1960s and 70s and pairs a featured spirit each month with the classics. Downtown, Marcelino's Boutique Bar on West Exchange Street builds drinks such as a Sumac Paloma around Middle Eastern flavors and asks for a smart elegant dress code. The Red Door on Peck Street mixes an Oaxacacillin with mezcal and a Laphroaig spray, and The Eddy on Eddy Street serves classic and contemporary drinks. Loma is walk-in only, while Sunday jazz tables at Courtland Club book up ahead. These are the bars we would start with.

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  1. Loma
    JAMES BEARDCocktail Bar

    Loma

    Loma describes itself as a classic cocktail bar paying homage to Latin American timelessness and culture, a room built to feel like a private home bar in Latin America in the sixties and seventies, with Latin jazz, boleros and vintage salsa on the playlist. Featured spirits rotate monthly on the back bar and are paired with classics, and the bar's stated aim is a private club where everyone is invited, with no pretence. Walk-in only, Thursday to Sunday from five. It won the James Beard Award for Best New Bar in 2026 after a 2025 Spirited Awards top-ten place for Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar.

    112 Spruce Street, Providence, RI 02903Thu-Sun 5pm-12am
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  2. Courtland Club
    Cocktail Bar

    Courtland Club

    Courtland Club is a cocktail bar, restaurant, social club and performance venue behind an unmarked door with a keypad on Courtland Street in Providence, open to the public with optional memberships, in a building that housed bakeries in the twenties and Italian social clubs after the war, with the twin baking ovens still in the back wall. Live jazz plays every Sunday, the kitchen is Paula Agganis's Greek-ish cooking, and the James Beard Foundation named it an Outstanding Bar semifinalist in 2024.

    51 Courtland St, Providence, RI 02909Thu 5pm-12am; Fri-Sat 5pm-1am; Sun 5pm-11pm; Mon-Tue closed
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  3. The Red Door
    Whiskey Bar

    The Red Door

    The Red Door is a downtown Providence bar on Peck Street with a signature cocktail list that reads like a travelogue: This Side of Paradise on gin, Centum Herbis, pear and velvet falernum; Castaway on Clément and Bounty spiced rum with coconut cream and allspice dram; Sunset in Auvergne on rye with rhubarb and Salers; La Tomatina on vodka, sweet and spicy tomato, aquavit and olive brine. There is an upstairs drink menu, a kitchen and happy hour, and the doors open at five, or three on Sunday.

    49 Peck Street, Providence, RI 02903Mon-Wed 5pm-12am, Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sat 5pm-2am, Sun 3pm-10pm
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  4. Marcelino's Boutique Bar
    Speakeasy

    Marcelino's Boutique Bar

    Marcelino's calls its Providence room an intimate speakeasy where you can escape the fog of daily life, and puts its purpose in one line: our craft is cocktails. Every drink, the bar says, carries the deep cultural history of its founders' homeland, in a speakeasy atmosphere with a second Marcelino's on the Boston seaport. Open from five, Tuesday to Sunday, latest on Friday and Saturday.

    1 W Exchange Street, Providence, RI 02903Tue-Wed 5pm-12am, Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sat 5pm-2am, Sun 5pm-1am
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  5. The Eddy
    Cocktail Bar

    The Eddy

    A neighborhood craft cocktail bar at 95 Eddy Street in downtown Providence, open every day from four in the afternoon until one in the morning in a dim, cozy room. The list includes a house punch that rotates daily, and the current drinks pair Old Tom gin with Montenegro and warm spices, or Four Roses bourbon with the bar's own falernum. Two of the cocktails can be made without spirits, and two zero-proof drinks sit on the menu. The back bar runs deep in amari and Lustau sherries, with local beers such as Proclamation and Whalers on draft. Snacks include shiitake popcorn, chorizo sausage rolls and smash burger sliders, with brown butter miso cookies to finish.

    95 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903Daily 4pm-1am
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