BAR opened in Stuttgart West in 1997 and has been run by Ralf Groher since 2001. Beside the cocktail list it stocks more than 150 single malts, over 60 rums and a range of tequila, mezcal, cognac, vermouth and port, and it keeps its house Gedeck, a pairing of whisky and beer. The music is analogue, bands play live on Sunday evenings from October to April, and the bar hosts whisky, rum and cocktail seminars.
A Stuttgart cocktail bar named after Ada Coleman's drink, made at the American Bar at the Savoy a century ago.
The building on Weberstrasse once belonged to a woodworker named Johannes Mack, and Holzmaler, the wood painter, joins that history to the feel of the 1920s. The drinks list is written as seven chapters, from the woodpainter's own story through the golden twenties, Prohibition, champagne and glamour, the house signatures, the spirits collection and modern classics, all mixed with selected spirits, fresh ingredients and craft. It opens at seven, Wednesday to Saturday, in the Leonhardsviertel, the quarter Stuttgart treats as its nightlife laboratory.
Lennart is a classic cocktail bar with no fixed menu: say what you like and the drink is mixed to it, from a back bar the bar describes as high-quality spirits and nothing else. The room is 1970s industrial, the soundtrack hip-hop and jazz, and the house's own words for the mood are casual, honest and a little raw, offered against the pretentious. It is on Tübinger Strasse in Stuttgart-Süd and opens at seven, Wednesday to Saturday.
Paul & George is a cocktail bar on Weberstraße in Stuttgart's old town and part of the Supersupply hospitality family. The bar presents itself as a dimly lit room for carefully mixed drinks and quiet conversation, open from early evening until late.
Schwarz Weiß Bar is a small cocktail bar on Wilhelmstraße in Stuttgart, owned by Knud Scheibelt and trading since 2011. The menu covers cocktails, alcohol-free drinks and selected whiskies, and from 6pm to 9pm the SW Aperitivo pairs one of three spritz variations made with house ingredients with three small snacks. The team also runs cocktail courses and whisky tastings.
A bar on Hauptstätter Strasse in central Stuttgart, run by the team behind the Buntes Pferd.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Stuttgart guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 8 with a map and filters.
Best bars in Stuttgart