Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Birmingham for grown-ups.

Where to drink

12 places

Paramount

Drink Craft cocktail

Paramount on 20th Street North downtown Birmingham is the arcade bar with vintage cabinets, a full pub menu and a craft cocktail program all under one roof.

Saturn

Drink Craft beer and shots

Saturn on 41st Street South in Avondale Birmingham is the 2015 Brian Teasley-founded music venue and bar in the former Cory and Faulkner Hardware building.

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Avondale Brewing Taproom

Drink Miss Fancy IPA

Avondale Brewing Taproom on 41st Street South Avondale is the 2011 anchor of the brewery row, with the Upstairs venue, beer garden and rotating food trucks.

Back Forty Beer Company

Drink Naked Pig Pale Ale

Back Forty Beer Company on 1st Avenue North in Birmingham opened summer 2018 next to Sloss Furnaces, with a 1.5-acre beer garden and a full pub kitchen.

Cahaba Brewing Co.

Drink Cahaba Oka Uba IPA

Cahaba Brewing Co. on 5th Avenue South in Avondale Birmingham is the Cahaba river-named brewery with a Quonset-hut taproom and rotating food trucks.

TrimTab Brewing Taproom

Drink TrimTab Paradise Now sour

TrimTab Brewing Taproom on 5th Avenue South in Lakeview Birmingham is the 2014 Harris Stewart brewery known for its fruited sours on the Lakeview row.

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Hot and Hot Fish Club Bar

Drink House classic cocktails alongside the Hastings tasting menu

Hot and Hot Fish Club Bar at Pepper Place Birmingham runs craft cocktails alongside Chris Hastings's Southern menu, with the chef-counter and bar seats.