2 Best Bars in City Centre, Cape Town

Tetsuo Hasegawa, bartender and owner of this tiny, personally craft cocktail bar in the heart of the city, eschews trends in favor of creating cocktails using imagination and local ingredients. The Tokyo-born mixologist blows minds and taste buds with drinks like his innovative milk-washed, tequila-forward Beat-nik, which contains beetroot, Durban masala, and apple shrub, or his All Night Boogie made with Cape brandy, Shiraz, banana and white miso, and dark chocolate. The drinks, tailored to your tastes, are exquisite, the atmosphere impeccable (only vinyls are played), and there's food available.

Before its founders decided to peddle cocktails, there was a shared love of hip-hop, and now that same energy and spirit—combined with an expert interest in spirits and how best to combine them with fresh, made-from-scratch ingredients—has resulted in one of Cape Town’s best bars.