50 editor picks across every TableJourney city.
50 speakeasies worth the trip across every TableJourney city. Editor-ranked. Hidden-door cocktail bars with serious bartenders, worldwide.
The Clumsies on Praxitelous is an all day bar for cocktails in the center of Athens, with two bartenders, Vassilis Kyritsis and Nikos Bakoulis, behind it.
TipService is personalized and somewhat formal, and guests choose from a list of cocktails.
Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City sits on Calle Amberes in Juarez behind an unmarked door 13, ranked No. 2 on the 2025 Worlds 50 Best Bars and Best Bar in North America, with a Gatsby ground floor and a louder basement, all run by Walter Meyenberg's culinary-cocktail team.
Paradiso is the Born speakeasy hidden behind the door of a working pastrami shop on Carrer de Rera Palau, run by Giacomo Giannotti and Margarita Sader and ranked the world's best bar at the 50 Best in 2022.
TipThe pastrami counter at the front is the entrance; the bar is through a curved freezer door at the back. Walk-ins fill the room by 20:00; reserve online for a seat.
Agostino Perrone's bar inside the Connaught in Mayfair has won World's Best Bar more than once and runs the table-side martini trolley service that the rest of the industry copies.
TipOrder the martini trolley, the choice of vermouth and bitters at the table is the experience. Reservations open one month ahead.
Bar Leather Apron in Downtown Honolulu is the intimate mezzanine cocktail bar inside the TOPA Financial Center, the 2023 James Beard winner for Outstanding.
TipWednesday to Saturday 17:00 to midnight. Reservations highly recommended; walk-ins by availability only.
The Attic above Black Pearl is Melbourne's most refined small bar: a 20-seat upstairs room at one of the world's best-rated bars, accessible only through the ground-floor venue, with a cocktail list built for unhurried drinking.
Le Lion Bar de Paris on Rathausstrasse in Hamburg's Altstadt is the city's classic speakeasy since 2007, with a buzzer door and the 2008-invented Gin Basil Smash.
TipRing the buzzer at Rathausstrasse 3; smart dress code. Cash and card accepted.
Baba Au Rum at Klitiou 6 serves spirits and cocktails every day from 19:00 to 03:00, and has been named one of the 50 Best Bars in the World.
TipThe bar visits distilleries around the world, tasting and picking its spirits.
Boutiq' Bar at Paulay Ede utca 5 is an award-winning cocktail bar in Budapest, with guest bartenders from New York to Tokyo taking over regularly.
TipThe cocktails use rare spirits, seasonal ingredients and house-made elements, from smoky Negronis to avant-garde infusions.
L'Antiquario is at Via Vannella Gaetani 2, 80121 Napoli.
The Jerry Thomas Project, at Vicolo Cellini 30, was started in 2010 by a group of bartenders as a small club and the first Italian secret bar.
TipIn 2013 it launched the Vermouth del Professore, the first of a series of products made with Distillerie Quaglia.
Drink Kong is a bar at Piazza di San Martino ai Monti 8, 00184 Roma, open daily 18:30-02:00, and its site takes reservations for up to 6 people.
TipThe site takes reservations for up to 6 people and none after midnight, and the minimum age for admission is 18 years old.
Archivio at Via Rosa, 3c is a craft cocktail and beer bar that makes its own Volume Primo sweet vermouth with thyme, chamomile, sage, vanilla and licorice.
TipIt is open every day from 16:00 to 01:00, and reservations are taken by phone.
Bar Benfiddich in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku is Hiroyasu Kayama's 17-seat counter built around herbs and spirits he grows on his Chichibu farm. World's 50 Best.
TipTake the lift to 9F; no menu, just describe what you like. Cover charge applies, reservations help on weekends.
Gen Yamamoto in Tokyo's Azabu-Juban is the eight-seat mizunara counter run solo by Yamamoto-san, on the ground floor of the Anniversary Building. Seasonal tasting cocktails in four, six or seven courses, no menu.
TipReserve the four, six or seven-course tasting in advance; phones discouraged, photos rarely permitted. Closed Mondays, and there is a ¥1,000 cover.
Licoreria Limantour in Mexico City on Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Roma Norte is the two-storey art-deco cocktail room overseen by Jose Luis Leon, a fixture on the Worlds 50 Best Bars list since 2014 and No. 32 in 2024, with a new backroom drinks-library called Licoreria.
Salmón Gurú is a cocktail bar and eclectic restaurant at Calle Echegaray 21 that says it is no ordinary bar, but storytellers with an animal instinct.
TipOpen from 16:00 every day, until 2:00 Sunday to Thursday and 02:30 Friday and Saturday, and the staff seat you as soon as possible.
Bar Us in Bangkok's Sukhumvit 26 is the multi-course cocktail room from the Messenger Service team. Ranked Asia's 50 Best Bars number 4 in 2025, all-black laboratory feel.
TipReservations essential via Instagram or phone, eight seats only. The full tasting runs 90 minutes; allow two hours including the all-night portion.
The Hoxton Square basement run by Alastair Burgess pairs a tight rotating cocktail list with a no-nonsense room policy that has kept it on the World's 50 Best Bars list more or less continuously since 2014.
TipBookings open one week ahead at 12:00 sharp, set a reminder. Walk-ins get the bar if anything.
The Office is at 955 W Fulton Market in Chicago, open Tuesday to Saturday and closed on Monday and Sunday.
TipThe Office opens at 17:00 Tuesday to Friday and at 16:30 on Saturday, closing at 00:00 midweek and at 01:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Williams & Graham on Tejon Street fronts as a corner bookstore in LoHi. Pull Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book from the shelf and the bookcase slides open onto a 60-seat speakeasy.
TipOpen 17:00-01:00 daily, no reservations. Walk in early on weeknights; weekend waits stretch to 90 minutes from 19:00.
Standby in The Belt alley off Gratiot serves modern craft cocktails in downtown Detroit since 2015. James Beard Outstanding Bar Program semifinalist in 2017.
TipEntry from The Belt alley; reservations recommended weekend evenings via OpenTable.
Bandista hides behind a bookcase inside the Four Seasons Houston, off Toro Toro. Twenty seats, a 1920s Latin lounge concept, and a spot on North America's 50.
TipReservations through OpenTable in 90-minute slots; the staff opens with bespoke flights tailored to your spirit preference. No standing-only entry.
Bryant's Cocktail Lounge on South 9th Street in Lincoln Village has poured no-menu cocktails since 1938 with dealer's-choice service in a speakeasy-style.
Jewel of the South, owned by Victoria Espinel and John Stubbs, with Chris Hannah directing the cocktails, pairs classic techniques with seasonal flavors.
TipBook a table through the reservation form; a snack menu runs 2:30 PM to 5 PM, and a surface parking lot surrounds the building.
Canon on 12th Avenue is Jamie Boudreau's Capitol Hill cocktail room with the largest spirits library in the country at 4,000 plus labels and a strict four guest cap per party.
TipOpen Wednesday through Sunday from 17:00-00:00. Walk in friendly, limited reservations; the bar caps parties at four to keep service tight.
Speakeasy hidden behind the cold-room door of a Retiro flower shop; World's 50 Best Bars #46 in 2024.
Tür 7 is a nightlife venue at Buchfeldgasse 7, 1080 Wien.
Hemingway Bar relocated in May 2025 from Karoliny Světlé to Opatovická 3 and opened with a 1930s-style room, leather banquettes, a marble counter and a 200-rum back bar. The cocktail list pairs classic builds with absinthe and rum riffs; the bar reached number 24 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2014.
TipBook ahead via the site; small room turns over twice in a night. The signature Hemingway Paparazzi pairs Havana 7 with Becherovka.
Ruby opened in June 2007 at Nybrogade 10, in an old townhouse from 1740 facing the parliament buildings, with cocktails in a timeless atmosphere.
TipThe minimum age of entry is 21 years old, and the bar says that, like most good things in life, it is not easily accessible.
Schwarze Traube opened in 2012 on Wrangelstrasse with no menu and no obvious sign; bartenders Atalay Aktas and Yalcin Celik build daily-changing drinks.
TipRing the bell; if full nobody enters. No menu, brief the bartender on what you like. Cash plus card.
Schumann's Bar moved from Maximilianstrasse to Odeonsplatz in 2003 and keeps Charles Schumann's unfussy cocktail discipline intact, with a long counter.
TipClosed Saturdays. Cocktail names skip the gimmicks; ask the bartender for an off-menu build to your taste.
Warmup Cocktail Bar is a cocktail bar at Nagy Diófa utca 26 in the party quarter, with no fixed menu: every drink is tailored to the occasion and mood.
TipBartenders chat with you briefly about your taste and any food allergy, then make you a one-off drink.
Locale Firenze occupies a palazzo steeped in history, where the ancient courtyard is now a lounge bar with a large mixology counter and tapas-style bites.
TipThe medieval cellars house Labo-ttega, an experience combining avant-garde cuisine and mixology, available by reservation for up to four guests.
Rasputin is a bar at Borgo Tegolaio 21R, 50125 Firenze.
TipOpen daily from 19:00 to 02:00 at Borgo Tegolaio 21R, 50125 Firenze.
Nottingham Forest is a Milan cocktail bar at Viale Piave 1 with a barchef fusion style combining Oriental, Caribbean and African atmospheres.
TipReservations are not accepted and the door steward manages access by availability. The space is small, so bring no more than 4 friends.
Harry's Bar is at Calle Vallaresso 1323 in San Marco, open daily from 11:00 to 23:00.
Bar Trench in Tokyo's Ebisu has been Rogerio Igarashi Vaz's absinthe and herbal liqueur room since 2010. Eight-seat counter, vintage European fit-out.
TipTiny room, eight seats. Cash and card accepted; the absinthe selection is the through-line, ask for a guided pour.
The SG Club in Shibuya is Shingo Gokan's three-floor cocktail house opened in 2018. Standing Guzzle on ground, basement Sip for classics, top-floor Savor.
TipGuzzle is walk-in and casual; Sip downstairs needs a reservation and applies a cover. Eight years running on Asia's 50 Best.
Hanky Panky in Mexico City on Turin in Juarez is the speakeasy Walter Meyenberg opened in 2016 behind the kitchen of a small Oaxacan fonda, the city's first in the format, with a classic Twelve Wonders of Mixology menu and No. 35 on the 2025 North America 50 Best.
Tlecan in Mexico City on Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Roma Norte is Eli Martinez Bello's agave-spirits room, the name meaning place of fire in Nahuatl, sourcing mezcal, bacanora, sotol, pox and raicilla direct from producers, ranked No. 23 on the 2025 Worlds 50 Best Bars.
Door 74 is an original Amsterdam speakeasy cocktail bar behind a secret door near Rembrandtplein, with theme-based menus and seat-only reservations.
TipEveryone must be 21+ to enter, reservations are seat-only, and groups can write to [email protected].
Flisak '76 is a cocktail bar at ul. Chlebnicka 9/10 in Gdańsk, and its menu always follows a unique theme, currently the world of vintage circus.
TipThe bar describes each visit as an extraordinary multisensory experience, tagged #cocktailexperience.
Mercy Brown above the Smakołyki restaurant on ul. Straszewskiego in Kraków's Stare Miasto is the unsigned art-deco speakeasy, with jazz and burlesque nights.
TipNo street signage; enter through Smakołyki and ask for the cloakroom. Cocktails from 24 zł. Book burlesque nights two weeks ahead.
Red Frog Speakeasy at Praça da Alegria 66B is an intimate bar with limited, seated-only places, reservations suggested, open Tuesday to Saturday 18:00-01:00.
TipA reservation is suggested for all visits, with free cancellation up to 24h before.
Kolibri is an intimate cocktail bar at Židovska steza 2 with an apothecary-styled counter and cocktails inspired by old tincture and bitters recipes.
TipStaff will advise on the cocktail menu or make a personal cocktail based on your preferences.
The Blind Pig is at Calle San Bartolome 23 in Centro, San Sebastian.
Arraun Cocktail Bar is a cocktail bar at Calle Angel 4 in Parte Vieja, San Sebastian.
