Cocktail trails: 3 routes
Flinders Lane and the east end
6 bars · about 22 minutes on foot in total
- 1Apollo Inn165 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 4 min to the next bar
- 2Eau de Vie1 Malthouse Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 4 min to the next bar
- 3Nick & Nora's80 Collins Street via, 11 Benson Wk, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 5 min to the next bar
- 4Siglo2/161 Spring St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 4 min to the next bar
- 51806169 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 5 min to the next bar
- 6Caretaker's Cottage139-141 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
The Chinatown laneways
4 bars · about 9 minutes on foot in total
- 1Heartbreaker234A Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 3 min to the next bar
- 2Section 827-29 Tattersalls Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 2 min to the next bar
- 3Union Electric13 Heffernan Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
- 🚶 about 4 min to the next bar
- 4Bomba103 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Fitzroy and Collingwood
5 bars · about 18 minutes on foot in total
- 1Naked for Satan285 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- 🚶 about 1 min to the next bar
- 2Black Pearl304 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- 🚶 about 5 min to the next bar
- 3Polly401 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- 🚶 about 9 min to the next bar
- 4Bar Liberty234 Johnston St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- 🚶 about 3 min to the next bar
- 5Above BoardChopper Lane, behind Beermash, 1/306 Smith St, Collingwood VIC 3066
Map: cocktail trails
Tap a pin for the bar. Numbers match the list.
Your questions
How long does a Melbourne cocktail trail take?
Each route has four to six bars. Allow two to four hours with a drink at each, plus the walking times shown.
Which is the best cocktail trail in Melbourne?
For first-timers, the Flinders Lane and east end route takes in six bars, finishing at Caretaker's Cottage.
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Who wrote this guide
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. Now we're bringing it to Australia. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We put this guide together from our own research, Google Maps and trusted local guides, ahead of bringing Cocktail Week to Melbourne.
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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