12 cocktail bar rooms in Louisville we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Louisville | Cocktail Bar across every city.

Doc Crow's Southern Smokehouse and Raw Bar ★ 4.8

Cocktail bar · $$$

127 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Doc Crow's on West Main in Louisville pours from a 2,700-bourbon library on Whiskey Row, the city's deepest bourbon list paired with smoked brisket and a raw.

Down One Bourbon Bar ★ 4.0

Cocktail bar · $$$

321 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Down One Bourbon Bar in the basement of the Galt House Hotel pours over 100 bourbons and Kentucky cocktails, the city's largest hotel-attached bourbon room.

Old Forester Distilling Company ★ 4.5

Cocktail bar · $$$

119 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Old Forester Distilling on West Main runs Louisville's first-bottled bourbon tour from the brand's original Whiskey Row warehouse, a $45 million distillery.

Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery ★ 4.7

Cocktail bar · $$$

801 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Michter's Fort Nelson on West Main runs a working distillery and bar inside an 1890 Whiskey Row building, the brand's Louisville home with The Bar at Fort.

Angel's Envy Distillery ★ 4.7

Cocktail bar · $$$

500 East Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Angel's Envy on East Main in Louisville runs distillery tours with a tasting bar called The Finishing Room, the brand's downtown home pouring port-finished.

Evan Williams Bourbon Experience ★ 4.1

Cocktail bar · $$$

528 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Evan Williams Bourbon Experience on West Main was the first distillery to open on Whiskey Row, an artisanal facility and tasting bar inside.

Rabbit Hole Distillery ★ 4.4

Cocktail bar · $$$

711 East Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Rabbit Hole Distillery on East Jefferson Street in Louisville cooks craft bourbon and rye out of a NuLu modern facility, the boutique distillery.

Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. ★ 4.4

Cocktail bar · $$$

120 North 10th Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Kentucky Peerless on North 10th Street in Louisville distills rye and bourbon downtown, the small-batch operation with a tasting bar and grain-to-glass tour.

Stitzel-Weller Distillery ★ 4.3

Cocktail bar · $$$

3860 Fitzgerald Road, Shively, KY 40216

Stitzel-Weller in Shively reopened a 1935 Derby-day-built distillery as the Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Experience, the historic Louisville bourbon cathedral.

Holy Grale ★ 4.6

Cocktail bar · $$$

1034 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40204

Holy Grale on Bardstown Road in Louisville pours a 30-tap Belgian and German beer list from a restored 1905 Highlands church, the city's deepest European.

Proof on Main bar ★ 4.2

Cocktail bar · $$$

702 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Proof on Main's bar in the 21c Museum Hotel pours one of Kentucky's deepest bourbon flights paired with bison burgers. At 702 West Main Street.

Lobby Bar at the Brown Hotel ★ 4.1

Cocktail bar · $$$

335 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202

Lobby Bar at the Brown Hotel in Louisville pours mint juleps and bourbon flights inside the lobby where the Hot Brown sandwich was invented in 1926.