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10 cocktail bar places in Tel Aviv we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Tel Aviv | Cocktail Bar across every city.

Bellboy ★ 4.5

$$$Cocktail barLev Hair

Bellboy inside Hotel Berdichevsky in Tel Aviv pours creative cocktails in playful vessels, with Butler, a 12-stool bar with one bartender, hidden behind it.

TipButler, the 12-seat bar hidden behind Bellboy, needs a separate reservation and pours classic cocktails with oysters.

Fantastic ★ 4.2

$$$Cocktail barTel Aviv Port

Fantastic inside the PLAY Sea Port hotel in Tel Aviv blurs bar, restaurant and theatre, with surreal cocktails and live music on Wednesdays.

TipHappy hour runs daily 18:00 to 20:00, with half off drinks and a quarter off the food menu.

HaMinzar ★ 4.3

$Cocktail barLev Hair

HaMinzar on Allenby Street has poured cheap draft beer since 1992, open from 08:00 until 04:00 most nights and round the clock on Thursday and Friday.

TipMismatched furniture and a young crowd; go after 02:00 for the true late-night regulars.

22 Rothschild ★ 4.0

$Cocktail barLev Hair

22 Rothschild on the corner of Rothschild and Nahalat Binyamin in Tel Aviv prices everything, drinks and burgers alike, in multiples of 22 shekels.

TipA late stop on the way to or from the clubs nearby; it opens at 20:00 and runs to 05:00 on Friday nights.

Dudu Bar ★ 3.9

$Cocktail barLev Hair

Dudu Bar on the Nahalat Binyamin pedestrian stretch keeps a casual, unfussy dive-bar mood on a dressed-up street in Tel Aviv, pouring cheap draft beer.

TipThe 20 percent discount window runs 18:00 to 20:00 most nights, before the street fills up outside.

Herzl 16 ★ 4.2

$$Cocktail barLev Hair

Herzl 16 runs a cafe by day and a bar by night around a large, green courtyard in central Tel Aviv, with live concerts and DJ sets on most weeks.

TipArrive early for a courtyard table; happy hour pours select drinks at ₪28 from 17:00.

Berlin in Florentin ★ 4.0

$Cocktail barFlorentin

Berlin in Florentin on Chayim Vital Street keeps drinks cheap and the music loud, the kind of Tel Aviv bar where one beer turns into a full night.

TipSunday happy hour runs half off every drink; the crowd builds fast after 22:00.

Emesh ★ 4.1

$$Cocktail barLev Hair

Emesh on Lilienblum Street, in the space that once held Nanuchka, runs a backyard, a dining room and a dance floor without changing venues in Tel Aviv.

TipThe upstairs gallery hosts private events; the backyard is the early-evening room.

Bicicletta ★ 4.2

$$Cocktail barKerem Hateimanim

Bicicletta on Nahalat Binyamin runs a seafood-leaning gastrobar around a big urban courtyard, cooking with produce from the Carmel Market nearby.

TipThe backyard is the pick on hot nights; happy hour runs 20 percent off 17:00 to 19:00 weekdays.

223 ★ 4.3

$$$Cocktail barOld North

223 on Dizengoff Street has run as a New York style cocktail bar since October 2008, pouring classics at any hour of the night in Tel Aviv's Old North.

TipHappy hour runs 18:00 to 20:00 every day, with the full menu at a flat ₪35.

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