Bars in Cape Town

Beerhouse is South Africa's premier craft beer destination, a Cape Town Long Street institution boasting over 99 beers on tap — the most of any bar in Africa — and a comprehensive selection of local and international craft beers that reflects the extraordinary growth of South African craft brewing culture. The bar has become a landmark of Cape Town's Long Street entertainment strip and a must-visit destination for beer enthusiasts from across South Africa and the world.

Cape Town has emerged as one of the world's most exciting craft gin-producing regions, and the city's dedicated gin bars celebrate the extraordinary range of South African botanical gin produced in the Western Cape wine and spirits region. Cape Town's craft gin scene draws on the extraordinary biodiversity of the Cape Floristic Region — home to 9,600 plant species, 70% of which are found nowhere else on Earth — to produce gins of distinctive local character that have won major international awards.

Power and the Glory is one of Cape Town's most beloved neighborhood cocktail bars — a Tamboerskloof institution that has developed a cult following among the city's creative community for its inventive cocktails, exceptional bartending, and genuine commitment to producing some of the finest drinks experiences in South Africa. The bar's intimate scale, remarkable cocktail creativity, and position at the heart of Cape Town's residential nightlife scene make it a genuine treasure of South African cocktail culture.

Green Point's bar scene along Somerset Road and the surrounding streets forms one of Cape Town's most beloved neighborhood bar districts — a walkable cluster of intimate bars, craft beer establishments, and social venues serving the residential community of Green Point and the stadium precinct. The area's proximity to Cape Town Stadium and Signal Hill gives it a distinctive character that blends pre-match sporting energy with genuine residential neighborhood bar culture.

The Test Kitchen bar at Luke Dale-Roberts's legendary Woodstock restaurant is associated with what has been repeatedly named the best restaurant in Africa and one of the top restaurants in the world, giving its bar experience a level of culinary prestige and cocktail innovation unmatched in South Africa. A seat at The Test Kitchen bar offers access to the extraordinary flavour research and culinary experimentation that has made Luke Dale-Roberts one of the most celebrated chefs on the African continent.

Tjing Tjing Torii is Cape Town's most celebrated Japanese-inspired rooftop bar, a stunning Loop Street destination that pairs extraordinary sake and Japanese whisky selections with panoramic city views and one of the city's most sophisticated ambient atmospheres. The bar has been consistently recognised as one of the finest bar experiences in South Africa and is a flagship destination on the national cocktail bar circuit.

Truth Coffee Roasting has been named the world's best coffee shop multiple times and is one of Cape Town's most extraordinary hospitality experiences — a steampunk Victorian-themed coffee roastery and bar in Buitenkant Street where the extraordinary interior design, exceptional specialty coffee, and small-batch spirits create a venue of remarkable Cape Town cultural significance. Truth's influence on Cape Town's specialty coffee culture and its extraordinary global reputation make it one of South Africa's most internationally celebrated hospitality destinations.