Stockholm has 6 cocktail bars in the BarMagazine directory, and Röda Huset leads the pack. This guide covers the cocktail bars specifically; the full Stockholm picture, all 6 bars of it, lives on the city page. Each listing is verified, with the address, opening hours and what to order.
'Sweden's best bartender in Stockholm's new icon': Röda Huset adds a splash of color to Sergels torg with world-class cocktails, dinner and a serious wine list, plus the Scandinavian Cocktail Experience, a 75-minute seasonal tasting journey (650 SEK) through honey, apples, meadowsweet and blackcurrant. No.35 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2025. It sits at No. 43 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.
Order this: Scandinavian Cocktail Experience (~75-minute seasonal tasting journey: Honung & Fanny, Äpplen, Svarta vinbär, Jordgubbar & Grädde)
A modern neighborhood restaurant with a world-class bar, Tjoget has anchored Hornstull since its cocktail bar opened in 2012, founded by bartenders Andreas Bergman and Joel Söderbäck, spread across dining room, wine bodega, beer café and cocktail bar, with flavors drawn from southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The Best Bar in Sweden 2026 and No.37 on Europe's 50 Best, after seven straight years on the world list. It currently stands at No. 76 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2025.
Order this: Polo Lounge Martini (Absolut vodka, Cocchi Americano, browned butter, sage)
Le Hibou is a cocktail and terrace bar on the top floor of Bank Hotel in Stockholm, designed to evoke an exclusive Parisian suite with a sophisticated yet relaxed atmosphere. The bar serves specially composed cocktails alongside a large selection of non-alcoholic drinks and operates on a drop-in basis, with parties of ten or more asked to contact the bar in advance. The venue is cash-free, accepting bank cards only. It won Best Cocktail Bar for Sweden at the 2026 Bartenders' Choice Awards.
Stjärtilleriet calls itself Östermalm's most unserious cocktail bar, with a stated philosophy that not taking themselves seriously is what they take most seriously. The bar positions its drinks as a 'taste-wise lawless zone' where every component fights to be front and center in the flavor profile. It also offers a Cocktail Omakase experience and is run alongside Restaurang Artilleriet on the same street. It won Best Cocktail Menu for Sweden at the 2026 Bartenders' Choice Awards.
An award-winning walk-in cocktail bar in Vasastan, best atmosphere 2016 and 2017, best signature cocktail 2018 by its own count, 20hundra5 pours playful serial signatures like the Honey I'm Wasted (now in its fourth numbered version) beside pizza, wings and private parties. No reservations; just come.
Order this: Honey I'm Wasted No.4 (Havana 7, Wray & Nephew, punch, Averna, lemon, ginger, cranberry, Red Bull)
Opened in March 2019 in a renovated old café in Östermalm, A Bar Called Gemma is Johan Evers's laid-back neighborhood room 'with passion, heart and soul', GEMMA is an acronym for its core values of generosity, artisan craftsmanship and zero-waste sustainability, applied to creative, globally inspired cocktails that aim to 'make your senses do hula hoops'.
A cocktail bar on Erstagatan in Södermalm, opened around 2024 and run without a website of its own. It has quickly become one of the neighborhood's noted newer cocktail rooms, serving a compact list of signature and classic drinks in an intimate setting.
The gold bar of the Nobis Hotel on Norrmalmstorg lives up to its name: ceiling and walls covered in hundreds of gold-swept mirrors inspired by Yayoi Kusama's 'Fireflies on the Water', over a counter of imitation yellow onyx, an interior by architect trio Claeson Koivisto Rune, with refined signature cocktails to match.
The Stockholm outpost of Hernö Gin, the Härnösand distillery that markets its spirit as the world's best, pours an all-gin list across the Dry, Old Tom and Navy Strength expressions at Slussen, with gin and G&T tastings (from 525 SEK) and a relaxed room of knowledgeable staff.
Order this: Dry Martini (Hernö Navy Strength gin, dry vermouth)
A restaurant and bar on Krukmakargatan on Södermalm. The bar opens earlier than the dining room and operates as a separate space where reservations are not accepted, with tables in the dining room bookable through the restaurant's own website.
Cocktail bar and Asian-fusion restaurant on the third floor of Mood Gallerian, Kura runs mixologist Malcolm Fredriksson's program of clarified highballs, fermentation and seasonal experiments, 'never complicated', over high-grade sushi and Asian street-food-inspired plates, with the in-house club Sense taking over till 3am.
Flit through an empty florist on Birger Jarlsgatan and hunt for the basement door: Lucy's Flower Shop is Stockholm's purple-hued subterranean bar, hidden in plain sight in Östermalm. The menu keeps to nine cocktails on naturalistic and foraged ingredients, sea buckthorn, meadowsweet, lingonberry, birch. No.49 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2022; some seats always held for walk-ins.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Stockholm guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 6 with a map and filters.
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