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

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Bar Leather Apron

Drink Old fashioned

Bar Leather Apron in Downtown Honolulu is Justin and Tom Park's intimate cocktail bar on the TOPA Financial Center mezzanine, the 2023 James Beard winner.

House Without a Key

  • ★ 4.5
  • Hotel cocktail bar
  • $$$

Drink Mai Tai

House Without a Key at the Halekulani in Waikiki Honolulu pours sunset cocktails under a 130-year-old kiawe tree with Hawaiian entertainment.

Lewers Lounge

  • ★ 4.6
  • Jazz cocktail lounge
  • $$$

Drink Smoke Rings (Sam Cooke)

Lewers Lounge at the Halekulani in Waikiki Honolulu is the seven-nights-a-week jazz cocktail bar where Hawaiian-grown ingredients meet Chet Baker and Ella.

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La Mariana Sailing Club

  • ★ 4.5
  • Tiki bar
  • $$$

Drink Mai Tai

La Mariana Sailing Club on Sand Island in Honolulu is the city's last original tiki bar, opened in 1957 with carved tikis from the Sheraton Kon Tiki Room.

The Manifest

  • ★ 4.4
  • Cafe and cocktail bar
  • $$$

Drink Hawaii's largest whiskey selection

The Manifest in Chinatown Honolulu is the dual cafe-and-cocktail bar with the state's largest whiskey selection, serving Waialua-grown coffee by day and live.

Skull and Crown Trading Co.

  • ★ 4.5
  • Tiki bar
  • $$$

Drink Modern tiki cocktails

Skull and Crown Trading Co. in Chinatown Honolulu is the modern tiki bar on Hotel Street, with fresh-juice cocktails and a deeper-than-typical rum list.

Mai Tai Bar at the Royal Hawaiian

  • ★ 4.4
  • Beach bar
  • $$$

Drink Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai

The Mai Tai Bar at the Royal Hawaiian in Waikiki Honolulu pours the canonical Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai daily, the drink first served on hotel grounds in 1953.

Podmore

Drink House old fashioned

Podmore in Downtown Honolulu is the cocktail bar Anthony Rush and Katherine Nomura opened in the 1902 Joseph W. Podmore Building, with bartender Alex Law.

Bevy

Drink Mai Thai

Bevy in Kakaako Honolulu is the SALT block cocktail bar with industrial decor, repurposed wine-box tables and a Mai Thai built on Bacardi 7.

The Tchin Tchin Bar

  • ★ 4.5
  • Wine and cocktail bar
  • $$$

Drink Natural wine and cocktails

The Tchin Tchin Bar in Chinatown Honolulu is the rooftop wine and cocktail bar above Lucky Belly, with Japanese whiskeys, gins and Mediterranean small plates.

Duke's Waikiki

  • ★ 4.0
  • Beach bar
  • $$$

Drink Hula Pie

Duke's Waikiki on Kalakaua in Honolulu has been the Outrigger Waikiki beach bar since 1994, named for Duke Kahanamoku with the Hula Pie ice cream finish.

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