Black Pearl
Cocktail bar
A long-running Brunswick Street bar with a relaxed ground floor and table service upstairs.
📍 304 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
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Heartbreaker
Rock 'n' roll bar
A loud rock 'n' roll bar on Russell Street with whiskey, beer and late nights.
📍 234A Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Section 8
Laneway bar
An open-air laneway bar in Chinatown serving drinks from a shipping container, with DJs and graffiti walls.
📍 27-29 Tattersalls Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
Union Electric
Cocktail bar and rooftop
A Chinatown laneway bar with exposed brick and a rooftop garden.
📍 13 Heffernan Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
Bomba
Tapas bar and rooftop
A Spanish tapas bar on Lonsdale Street with a rooftop bar above.
📍 103 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Rooftop Bar
Rooftop bar
The open-air bar on top of Curtin House on Swanston Street, with city views, burgers and a summer cinema.
📍 Curtin House, level 7/252 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Mjølner
Bar and restaurant
A Viking-themed bar and restaurant on Hardware Street, with drinking horns and big plates.
📍 106 Hardware St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Loch & Key
Cocktail bar
A dimly lit bar on Franklin Street with several rooms and a balcony.
📍 34 Franklin St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Naked for Satan
Bar and rooftop
A Brunswick Street bar with infused vodkas, Spanish-style snacks and a rooftop with city views.
📍 285 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Imperial Hotel
Rooftop pub
A pub with one of the best rooftops in the CBD, looking across at Parliament House, with live sport and a mostly Australian beer list.
📍 2 to 8 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
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Your questions
What are the best bars for groups in Melbourne?
Start with Black Pearl, Heartbreaker, Section 8, Union Electric and Bomba. Our full list has 10 bars.
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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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