Cocktail barTiki bar$$$
Skull and Crown Trading Co. in Chinatown Honolulu is the modern tiki bar on Hotel Street, with fresh-juice cocktails and a deeper-than-typical rum list.
Signature drink: Modern tiki cocktails
Food: Polynesian small plates
Tip: Tuesday to Saturday 17:00-23:00. Closed Sunday and Monday; book ahead on Resy for weekends.
Cocktail barBeach bar$$$
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.
Signature drink: Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai
Food: Bar bites, poke
Tip: Daily 11:00-23:00, live music 18:00-22:00. The Ali'i Mai Tai is the upgrade; oceanfront tables turn at 19:00.
Cocktail barCocktail bar$$$
Podmore in Downtown Honolulu is the cocktail bar Anthony Rush and Katherine Nomura opened in the 1902 Joseph W. Podmore Building, with bartender Alex Law.
Signature drink: House old fashioned
Food: Brunch by day, snacks at night
Tip: Closed Monday. Brunch Saturday and Sunday from 09:00-14:00; the library room books out first.
Cocktail barCocktail bar$$$
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.
Signature drink: Mai Thai
Food: Small plates
Tip: Tuesday and Wednesday 17:00-22:00, Friday and Saturday to 02:00. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Cocktail barWine and cocktail bar$$$
The Tchin Tchin Bar in Chinatown Honolulu is the rooftop wine and cocktail bar above Lucky Belly, with Japanese whiskeys, gins and Mediterranean small plates.
Signature drink: Natural wine and cocktails
Food: Mediterranean small plates
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. The rooftop terrace is open by 17:00; cocktails run alongside the by-the-glass list.
Cocktail barBeach bar$$$
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.
Signature drink: Hula Pie
Food: Local plates, fish
Tip: Daily 07:00-24:00. Live music 16:00-18:00 and 21:30 to midnight; Barefoot Bar walk-in only.