The Best New Delhi Bars

Shalom Med Lounge Bar

The Shalom Experience is a lounge-style bar with wooden decorations. This experience aims to find inner peace by creating a relaxing and rejuvenating atmosphere. Want to find inner peace at a cocktail bar? Sounds like a bucket list moment! Exotic beverages can be combined with – expensive Mediterranean dishes. The bar is rated one of the best and when you walk in, your worries and anxieties are banished.

Kylin

This New Delhi bar is stylish to the extreme. The bar focuses on a relaxing, anti-rushing atmosphere where you can sit down and enjoy a Cuban cigar. Whiskey dominates the list and the choices are many. An oriental menu on the side offers snack, lunch, dinner and whatever excuse you need to enjoy the wonderful peace finding of India.

Ego Lounge

This lounge speaks highly of itself and it’s allowed to! Couches are available everywhere for you to lounge. Beer and drinks are offered in a large variety, along with wine from all over the world. Music varies, depending on who is playing, but it’s always good. This New Delhi bar is located in the New Friends colony, right next to a Thai restaurant with a similar name.

Q’BA

A history of prices makes Q’BA one of New Delhi’s most famous restaurant/bar combination. There is a reason why they call it the multi-cuisine! Q’BA is shaped in a Q and with it’s dim lighting, sofas and leather chairs the atmosphere is unique. Cocktails are amazing, especially if you enjoy them on the romantic roof terrace. This New Delhi bar offers a lot of events all year round which you must visit. Look at their site for more info. The restaurant opens at 7pm and is located upstairs.

Rick’s

This New Delhi bar located in the Taj Mahal Hotel offers you more drinks and beer than you ever thought existed. It’s snack menu is Pan-Asian and delicious! The atmosphere is intimate and cozy.

1911

Go back in time to the year when Delhi became British India’s capital and a big player in the early Commonwealth. A neo-colonial trip awaits to a bar with rich mahogany reflecting the taste of the cocktail you want to zip. Oil paintings of maharajas look upon you as you hear music playing to your mood. Over 500 different beverages are on the menu.

Gem

A dark and wooden bar where bargaining is still possible. Or try and become a local and catch the 10% discount it offers to regular customers. The downstairs of this bar offer a sports café where you can catch a cricket match. Upstairs is an atmospheric bar with an excellent décor for a memorable visit. The endless menu with amazing snacks from China and North India is popular, especially among the many business people that visit this place often.

Before heading out for the night, read about where to go and what to expect from New Delhi's nightlife.