Stuttgart's cocktail bars range from wine-led signatures to bartenders who work without a menu. The best cocktail bars in Stuttgart start on Marienplatz at Brother Louis, where each Perfect Match signature pairs a grape with one ingredient, such as Auxerrois with sorrel, and those signatures cost 9 euros on Tuesdays. Lennart Bar has no fixed list at all, so drinks are mixed to each guest's taste over a hip-hop and jazz soundtrack. Holzmaler Bar tells its menu in seven chapters, from the golden twenties and Prohibition to modern classics, and in Stuttgart-West, BAR pours a whisky and a beer together as its house Gedeck. Brother Louis asks for no dress code. These are the eight we would start with.

Brother Louis opened quietly in late October 2025 in the Heslacher Schlößle, a listed building on Marienplatz in Stuttgart-Süd, in the space of the former Madagascar restaurant. Its owners, Tobias Lindner and Uwe Heine, worked together behind the bar at Jigger & Spoon, and Heine has shaped the city's bar scene for 25 years. Arched vaults rise over a long stone bar counter and a back bar framed in red. The drinks start from wine: the Negroni uses Lemberger Ripasso gin, Red Quinquina, chinotto and blackberry leaf, and the signature list pairs Auxerrois with sorrel and Lemberger with brown butter. A fine selection of wines and small plates completes the menu.

Easy Street is a cocktail bar on Weberstraße in Stuttgart whose tagline reads "life is sweet on easy street". Fresh cocktails run from timeless classics to creative house compositions, mixed with experience and passion, and the bar makes its own syrups and infusions with devotion and a love of detail. The mood is relaxed, an invitation to dive into the many sides of the cocktail and its aromas. Under the same easystreet name there is also a wine and champagne bar on Jakobstraße with more than 100 wines by the glass, and in 2026 easystreet brought a Jägerlaube to the Stuttgart Weindorf wine festival for the first time.

A Stuttgart cocktail bar named after Ada Coleman's drink, made at the American Bar at the Savoy a century ago.
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.
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.
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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 10 with a map and filters.