Honolulu's cocktail scene swings between hotel classics and a craft revival downtown. Bar Leather Apron on Fort Street is the city's serious spirits room, while House Without a Key and Lewers Lounge at Halekulani in Waikiki keep the resort tradition alive. Chinatown's North Hotel Street has become a bar corridor, with The Manifest, Skull and Crown Trading Co. and The Tchin Tchin Bar clustered close together.
11 cocktail bar places in Honolulu we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Honolulu · Cocktail Bar across every city.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drink Modern tiki cocktails
Skull and Crown Trading Co.
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.
Drink House old fashioned
Podmore in Downtown Honolulu is the cocktail bar Anthony Rush and Katherine Nomura opened in the 1902 Joseph W.
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.
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.
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.
