Somewhere to eat as well as drink: the Malta bars where the food is as good as the drinks.
Last checked 14 November 2026. No bar paid to be included.
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Japanese restaurant and lounge bar
Listed in the Michelin Guide Malta
A sleek basement Japanese restaurant on the corner of Strait Street and Santa Lucia Street, listed in the Michelin Guide, with a cocktail bar along one side of the room. Try the Sumotori: Japanese whisky, umeshu and vermouth, smoked with green tea.
📍 175 Strait Street, Valletta VLT 1455
🕒 Daily noon to 1am (OpenStreetMap; check before you go)
Gin and tapas bar
A gin and tapas bar on Strait Street, Valletta's old nightlife lane. Staff know their gins and the menu runs to drinks like the Valletta Mule and the Malta Spritz, with tapas to share and live music some nights.
📍 132 Strait Street, Valletta
Rooftop bar
On the 20th floor of the ME Malta hotel beside Mercury Tower, with 360-degree views, DJs and Japanese sharing plates. The short cocktail list includes the Byakuren, made with sake, triple sec, lychee and jasmine. Go from golden hour into the night.
📍 ME Malta, Mercury, St George's Street, St Julian's
🕒 Daily 6pm to midnight (OpenStreetMap; check before you go)
Rooftop bar
Up several flights of stairs in Victoria, Gozo, with two roof terraces: one looks over St George's Basilica, the other over the Citadella. Sharing dishes and cocktails.
📍 Circolo Gozitano, 6 Triq Sir Adrian Dingli, Victoria, Gozo
Mezcal and taco bar
Right next door to KAMY and run by the same owners, this Mexican bar pairs mezcal and tequila drinks with tacos and small plates to snack on between rounds.
📍 Old Bakery Street, Valletta
Bar and grill
A bar and grill on the Strand looking across to Valletta, with signature drinks such as the Black Sheep Old Fashioned and the Malta Mule, food from the grill and live music.
📍 72 The Strand, Sliema
Gastro bar
A fusion gastro bar on the Tigné seafront with cocktails all week and an Asian-inspired brunch at weekends from 11am to 2pm, with a bottomless Prosecco option.
📍 33 Tigné Seafront, Sliema
🕒 Mon to Thu 5pm to 11pm; Fri midnight to 11pm; Sat and Sun 11am to 11pm (OpenStreetMap; check before you go)
Rooftop cocktail bar and grill
A cocktail bar and grill on the 14th floor of the Preluna Hotel, with wide views over the sea. It is at its best at golden hour. Book at weekends.
📍 Preluna Hotel, 124 Tower Road, Sliema
Rooftop bar
Opposite St George's Bay, with two bars, VIP sofas, a dance floor and DJs, open from noon to 2am every day. Busy most nights and packed at weekends. Smart casual dress.
📍 St George's Bay, St Julian's
Wine bar
Malta's first wine bar, open since 2002 in a 400-year-old cellar on Strait Street. More than 200 wines, with cheese and charcuterie boards and Mediterranean small plates.
📍 Strait Street, Valletta
Pub
A warm, buzzing British-style pub at AX The Victoria Hotel, serving pub food and traditional Maltese dishes.
📍 AX The Victoria Hotel, Sliema
Beach club
A seafront beach club at Tigné Point with what many call the best view in Malta's beach club scene: straight across the water to Valletta.
📍 Tigné Seafront, Sliema
Beach club
The beach club that sits on the sand rather than on rocks, in the natural bay of Għajn Tuffieħa on the west coast.
📍 Għajn Tuffieħa, Mġarr
🕒 Daily 9am to 9pm (OpenStreetMap; check before you go)
Wine bar
A Tuscan wine bar in a quiet corner of Victoria, Gozo, opened in early 2025 and named after a day of wine tasting in Montepulciano, with Italian food and well-priced dishes.
📍 Triq Dun Karl Bondi, Victoria, Gozo
Pub
An English-style pub in Buġibba serving traditional pub grub such as fish and chips all day, plenty of draught beer and outdoor tables.
📍 Bay Square, Buġibba
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Start with AKI, Yard 32, Radio Rooftop, Bell & Bastion and Ginscal Mezcal & Tacos. Our full list has 15 bars.
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. Malta is next. We put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides, ahead of bringing Cocktail Week to Malta.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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