Best Cocktail Bars in Pennsylvania

This Pennsylvania list belongs to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The best cocktail bars in Pennsylvania take in Scandinavian, slow-drinks and rum styles. On South 16th Street in Philadelphia, Andra Hem calls itself a Scandinavian-inspired cocktail lounge. Almanac, upstairs from Ogawa Sushi & Kappo on Market Street, filters its drinks through the Slow Drinks Movement and made the 2026 James Beard semifinal round for Best New Bar. In Pittsburgh, Bridges & Bourbon on Penn Avenue builds modernistic cocktails, and Hidden Harbor in Squirrel Hill runs the Dead Parrots Society, which works through its rums 20 at a time. R&D in Fishtown always welcomes walk-ins and takes reservations Thursday to Saturday. These are the bars we would start with.