Bars in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Bamberg have been awarded the main prizes at the Mixology Bar Awards for 2025.
In the most important category "Bar of the Year", the winner in Germany was the "Green Door Bar" in Berlin.
Green Door Bar is located in Berlin's Schöneberg neighbourhood on Winterfeldtstraße near Nollendorfplatz.
Near to Motzstraße, the bar's surrounding neighbourhood has been a hub for gay and queer nightlife since the 1920s.
Self-described as an American bar, furniture in Green Door was imported from New York in the 1990s. The bar's website notes that the artist Thomas Hauser painted the walls with checks and wood patterns, and describes the interior as "reminiscent of a private salon from a David Lynch film".
The winner of the "Bartender of the Year" award, Maria Gorbachova, also works at Green Door. She is the first woman to win the title.
Congratulating Gorbachova for winning the title, Mixology editor-in-chief Nils Wrage wrote, "Maria has done everything right in recent years, built up a great, diverse team and comprehensively modernised the Green Door without jeopardising the characteristic nature of this important bar". The Green Door is open daily from 7 pm, and their cocktails go for €14.
Hamburg is home to three prize winners
Hamburg's Collab Bar won the title of "New Bar of the Year" for 2025.
Collab Bar is a "card only" and "walk-in only" establishment. So you can leave your cash at home, and don't bother trying to make reservation.
The bar's menu notes the strengths of their drinks: from no alcohol, to low, medium, boozy or "bizzeli viel", which apparently means very boozy. They also offer tacos provided local taqueria La Casita.
Two other Hamburg bars of high esteem, according to Mixology, are Jing Jing, which won the title of "Restaurant Bar of the Year" and Le Lion, which won the title of "Bar Institution".
Jing Jing is a Thai restaurant and bar, and Le Lion is a franchise of the original Le Lion de Paris, which has earned some notoriety around the world for it Gin Basil Smash, as well as its interpretations of classic rum and champagne drinks.
Notable bars in the Southern Germany
Munich is home to two title winners for 2025: Ory, at Mandarin Oriental, won the title of "Hotel Bar of the Year", and "Bar Team of the Year" wen to Zephyr.
And while it's no surprise that most of Germany's highest rated bars are found in it's biggest cities, a couple of the Mixology Bar Awards went to Bamberg's Das Schwarze Schaf.
A relatively small and little known city, Bamberg's medieval Old Town attracts tourists who are more likely to try a local Rauchbier (smoked beer) in a historical brewery than step into a cocktail bar. But according to the editors of Mixology, Bamberg has seen "unprecedented bar development for almost a decade", and the people at Schwarze Schaf are a big part of that.
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On Germany's west side, Sieferle & Kø in Mannheim won for "Bar menu of the year". But the bar's super simple website doesn't offer any previews of the menu. So if you're curious what's on offer, you'll just have to stop by and see.
Outside of Germany, Truth & Dare in Vienna won the title for "Austria's Bar of the Year" and Herz in Basel won the title for Switzerland.
The trade magazine "Mixology" has been awarding its industry awards since 2007.
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