Gin in Athens

Athens is a cocktail city more than a gin city: three of its bars made The World's 50 Best Bars in 2025. Here is where gin is treated with care, plus the city's oldest still.

• Brettos (Distillery bar, Plaka): Founded in 1909 and Athens' oldest bar and distillery: walls of coloured liqueur bottles, the original barrels and the old copper cauldron.
• Galaxy (Bar, Syntagma, Stadiou St): A whiskey bar since 1972 that takes its dry Martinis and gins just as seriously.
• Teleion (Bar, Kypseli): A former pastry shop turned listening bar. The stirred 50/50 Martini comes with a ginger edge.