The best cocktail bars Lyon 69000

A Grisbi that touched us with its velvety paw. A place beautifully inspired by the speakeasies of the American Prohibition era, yet with an elegant French touch. Lovely welcome and service from a team of professional cocktail specialists. In this universe blending cinema, music (excellent by the way), architecture and interior design, we keep coming back to taste the 4 seasonal menus and enjoy the perfect cocktail to suit our mood. A must-try is "le digeo gourmand", a homemade pastry accompanied by a top-of-the-range digestif. Cocktail classes and mixology workshops, spirits tasting evenings. A Grisbi is also available for private hire.

Lots of good times to share at the Mumbaï Café. Let's start with the restaurant, the best alibi to drink a cocktail then, with the Thali, dishes to share on a round tray. It's good and veggie compatible. On the drink side, behind the counter one of the best bartenders in Lyon (and the world)! This Café offers a menu of original cocktails made with often exotic ingredients. Amazing menu of Japanese whiskys, sake and wines. The cocktails invite you to intoxicating journeys. An address to escape.

Explosive evenings ahead! In the chic district between Masséna and Brotteaux, here's L'Artchimiste. Mixology is the science of "chemists" of liqueurs, spirits and other beverages. Excellent ingredients, including great spirits and fresh produce, are used to create cocktails and mocktails that can be adapted to suit every taste. So much so, in fact, that the barman can even compose a cocktail to suit your mood. A warm and inviting place with stone walls, French-style ceiling, year-round terrace and cellar. A great address.

A Phantom who appears every evening in the long Rue Royale to invite us to follow him into his cosy den or onto the small summer terrace. For more than 10 years now, the Fantôme has been expressing its imagination in this lively place where you can meet new people. Life, love, sharing, to tip over to the cocktail side of the force on a soundtrack that reflects the image of the place: liberated. All the art of mixology is expressed in original creations made from drinks and ingredients selected with particular care to satisfy our curiosity and pleasure. Tasting plates to extend the evening in the ghost's sheets.

The end of the day will be more enjoyable if you spend it at the Monkey Club. Destination cocktails and good humor near the town hall, the perfect address to take your mind off things. A trip to the tropics with a small terrace, a rarity in Lyon's cocktail bar scene. Depending on your tastes and mood, the expert bartenders suggest prescriptions that vary according to the season, from Red Hot Chili Pepper, with a nice twist on Bloody Mary, to fruity Bissap Asap, not forgetting a good choice of gin and tonics, specialties of the house. Warm, hushed ambience under the vaulted ceiling, smiling service at the bar or in comfortable club armchairs from an adorable team. A few nibbles.

Soda, the first bar that made us want to drink cocktails before anyone else. At La Martinière, Soda features a team of bartenders who know how to mix! A chic, glamorous atmosphere, not only for a drink, but also for listening to the excellent musical program. Let's take a look at the cocktail menu and order, according to your mood (the menu changes frequently), with classic house twists such as a dangerous Zombie (2 glasses maximum), a Supanova version of the mojito or a fruity Soul Sista. New this year, you can drop by the bar on Tuesdays to create your very own cocktail (with the help of the team). The benchmark.

The BIG WHITE is a bar with a totally redesigned, original and dynamic concept. It's located in Vieux Lyon, on the corner of the famous Place du Change. Class and chic are the order of the day in this establishment, far from the "student" image one might have feared. The bar offers a wide choice of draught beers, world beers, cocktails, shooters... But the BIG WHITE is also a place to relax over a coffee, a glass of wine or a selection of plates, with happy hours from 5pm to 9pm.

It's like stepping back in time (even though you haven't started drinking yet...). Right in the heart of the historic district of Vieux Lyon, with a terrace under the lime tree when the weather's fine, this cocktail bar transports us to the heart of the Italian Renaissance, while at the same time pumping modern-day sound into our ears. You'll feel right at home at Le Florian, thanks to the convivial yet hushed, relaxed yet elegant ambience of the tastefully arranged glasses. All the classics, but above all in-house creations by creative mixologists who are always ready to listen. Plates to accompany cocktails. Smart spot.

You don't need a prescription to order a cocktail in this Officine. The Grand Hôtel-Dieu's jazzy cocktail bar. Enter via Le Grand Réfectoire, climb the back staircase to reach the first floor and enter the cosy world of l'Officine, a muffled showcase for mixology. The bottles behind the bar are the potions used by the excellent team of bartenders to compose the finest cocktails. They fuse, invent, inspire and serve top-flight cocktails: Signature with a Tiki Blinders or the Royal Praline. Cocktails of the moment and made-to-measure available. Classics with a twist, a wide selection of gins, beers and tapas. Pamper yourself at l'Officine.

A place dedicated to mixology that "mixes" itself, as it is, on two levels, a bar, a club and a music scene all in one. It's a groovy, creative place, with formats that move to suit our desire to taste everything. Not least on the menu of original house cocktails prepared before your very eyes by the bartenders. Fun cocktails - Groom libre, Pinky gin, House Paloma... -fun cocktails, fun mocktails, a menu of craft beers of the moment, wine by the glass, champagnes and spirits to mix and match. On the summer terrace or in a colorfully decorated room, snacking - planks, empanadas... - to make the evening last into the middle of the night. Privatization possible.

In the world of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu, Justin has had fun breaking codes by bringing a touch of craziness to our evenings. In fact, Justin won the prize for best party bar in Lyon at the Lyon d'Or 2023 awards. A superb terrace that transforms into a beach bar in summer, where you can cool off with a famous aniseed drink, and into a ski slope in winter, when gondolas allow you to drink mulled wine... in the warmth. The ideal place to chill out, play pétanque or table soccer, or listen to a DJ, even indoors in a room tastefully decorated by artists. Cocktail menu and catering to prolong the pleasure of being at Justin's.

At the end of a Lyonnais passageway, nestled in a secret passageway, it's a veritable little boudoir that plunges us into another era, another atmosphere. Discover Le Passage as you make your way to a timeless address where it's so good to settle into a super-comfortable sofa. With its jazzy soundtrack, velvet seats, inlaid woodwork and hushed ambience, this is the ideal bar for a romantic tête-à-tête to show off your good taste and knowledge of hidden addresses. An excellent cocktail menu, from classic to iconic, with an impressive choice of top-quality spirits. Food and beverages in keeping with the setting.

Without a doubt the reference in Lyon in the hectic world of the classic (but not so classic) cocktail bar. Created in 2010 in the heart of Lyon, in a small street a few steps away from the Terreaux, L'Antiquaire gives off a tasty mix of refined chic, vintage atmosphere and tasteful modernity in a room as beautiful as the waiters are professional and attentive. Every evening, under the subdued lights, we come to discover a magnificent counter, a warm setting, a quiet music, but also a penguin (yes!). Beautiful casual elegance of the whole, classy and smiling service for tasty cocktails, like the Bacardi Fizz. Not to be missed.

In the lively commercial heart of Lyon, being Pompette means partying with style. Rue du Palais Grillet, a refreshing terrace in the heart of a city still too mineral for a "bar and cocktailerie" that thwarts the (too) often seen codes of the hushed speakeasy to offer us a kind of refined bonbonnière in the best style. Pompette has a real festive side that suits it perfectly. A cosy little room, a counter in front of the bar, where you can mix and mingle. Cocktails are classified by flavor - spicy, floral, herbaceous, smoky... - and are perfectly proportioned, even for a Bloody Mercury or an Agave the feeling. One Sunday a month, artists present their work.

A stone's throw from the Rhône, in a cosmopolitan neighborhood, Sauvage gives us a taste for travel. It's a place of freedom and creativity, a place where you can relax and unwind without feeling pressured, around coquetels - yes, that's how you can write it - "low" in alcohol, but "high" in taste and aroma, to explore other, less foggy horizons. The soundtrack goes perfectly with the menu of homemade coquetels, as do the tapas for a complete journey of the senses. Original and creative, promoting "slow drinking" in the discovery of new flavors and sensations, this is a wild place where people like to take their time in tasting.

Le Pélican is a bird, a beer, a cocktail and in Lyon an excellent cocktail bar. Aymeric Tortereau - winner of some fine cocktail trophies - makes the good classics and creates new compositions in the Pelican's beak, which houses nearly 350 bottles, some of them exceptional. Warm decor, but it doesn't steal the show from the stars: the cocktails. Before preparing your cocktail, the barman chats with you to get to know you better and suggest personalized "variations". "Signature" with the Gold Snapper. Originality with the cocktails and bottles to take away to drink with friends at home.