The best restaurants for cocktail in Winnipeg, curated by TastyPals editors.
Fast answers for diners searching for cocktail restaurants in Winnipeg. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Blue Donkey Cantina Ltd is a mexican restaurant in Winnipeg that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Bread & dips and Mild Tuna sashimi also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Thomas Hinds Sampling Room is a cigar lounge on Carlton Street — unmarked blue door, directly across from the RBC Convention Centre, next to a tobacconist that has occupied the same space for over three decades — that has apparently figu…
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Petit Socco has established itself as one of the Exchange District's most distinctive wine bars by grounding its menu in Moroccan and Mediterranean cooking with evident seriousness — the kind that signals genuine engagement with a culina…
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Amsterdam Tea Room and Bar has one of the more quietly distinctive origin stories in the Exchange District: Scottish owner Mark Turner opened it in 2016 as a loose-leaf tea shop, and that DNA is still visible everywhere — 74 teas on the…
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Ocean Bites has arrived in the Exchange District at a moment when Winnipeg's dining scene is finally catching up to its own ambitions, and from everything the room signals, it knows exactly what it wants to be: a contemporary seafood cou…
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Harth Mozza & Wine Bar has been doing something quietly radical in Winnipeg's south end since 2017: building a neighborhood restaurant that the neighborhood actually treats like one.
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Nola sits in Winnipeg's Exchange District and makes a deliberate, committed case for New Orleans cooking — not the surface markers of it, but the underlying technique that gives the cuisine its actual character.
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The Roost occupies a position in Winnipeg's dining landscape that is less about culinary ambition and more about physical rarity: a functioning rooftop bar in a city where the combination of structural requirements and municipal permitti…
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SOHO Kitchen + Wine occupies a space in the Exchange District that the neighbourhood does best — heritage brick, cobblestone context, and a room that could coast on atmosphere alone.
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Bar Accanto occupies a particular kind of position in Winnipeg's drinking-and-eating landscape — not a wine bar that happens to have food, but one where the two are reportedly built around the same logic.
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Must Be The Place suits a night out when you want cocktail bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Colleen suits a night out in The Forks when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff. Burrata and Endive Salad also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Bellissimo doesn't do much to flag itself from the street, and that's apparently been the operating philosophy for over two decades.
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Langside Grocery is doing something specific in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood: a serious cocktail bar that built a real kitchen around it, not the other way around.
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Oxbow has developed a clear reputation as the natural wine bar Osborne Village was missing — not simply a room that borrows the language of the category for positioning purposes, but one that appears, by consistent account, to have assem…
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Tabula Rasa has built a reputation as the room in Osborne Village that gives a small-plates evening some actual weight — a Spanish- and Mediterranean-inflected tapas, oyster, and cocktail bar that, by most accounts, treats the night as a…
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Borgo Antico is a italian pick in Exchange District in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. LA MARCA PROSECCO and SPUMANTE RIBOLLA GIALLA BRUT SAN MARTINO also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Patent 5 is what happens when an accountant, an engineer, an entrepreneur, and a pharmacist decide the craft spirits scene needs more rigor — and then back that conviction with a 2,600-square-foot former livery stable in Winnipeg's East…
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Solera is a wine bar pick in Osborne Village in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Really Boujee Old Fashioned and Solera'd Boulevardier also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Damecca Lounge is a sensible bar call in Winnipeg when you want something that usually lands well.
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Cordova Tapas & Wine occupies a particular lane in Winnipeg's Exchange District that not enough places bother with: the serious wine bar that actually feeds you well.
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Block & Blade Restaurant and Bar is an easy bar option in Winnipeg to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Toad in the Hole is an easy pub option in Winnipeg to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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East India Company Pub & Eatery is a indian restaurant in Winnipeg that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Wood Tavern is a sensible lounge bar call in Winnipeg when you want something that usually lands well.
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MR MIKES SteakhouseCasual is an easy bar and grill option in Winnipeg to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Hermanos lands in the Exchange District as one of the more deliberately conceived rooms downtown Winnipeg — a South American-leaning grill house with a wine bar operating as a genuine equal partner rather than an afterthought.
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Saffron's Restaurant is a mediterranean restaurant in Winnipeg that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The top restaurants for cocktail in Winnipeg include Blue Donkey Cantina Ltd, THOMAS HINDS SAMPLING ROOM, Petit Socco. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Blue Donkey Cantina Ltd is among the top-rated options for cocktail in Winnipeg, with a 10.0 Google rating and 3 reviews.
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