Five cocktail bars, chosen on the record: one Spirited Awards nominee, one James Beard winner.
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.
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.
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.
The Eddy is a craft cocktail bar in downtown Providence that describes itself in three parts: classic and creative cocktails, unique snacks, and a cozy, dimly lit atmosphere. It opens at four every day and runs until one, on Eddy Street a block from the river.
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.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Providence guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 6 with a map and filters.
Best bars in Providence