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Craft beer, cocktails and the best of Courtenay & Cuba.
Tory Street prohibition-era cocktail bar — leather, tableside service and serious classics. Long the city's best bar.
Pastel-pink Leeds Street craft beer pioneer — 18 taps, pizza next door and the city's most photographed neon.
Edward Street basement cocktail bar — long marble bar, perfect spritzes and one of Wellington's best wine-by-the-glass programs.
Garrett Street pub with the city's best beer garden — live music every weekend, woodfire pizza and 12 rotating taps.
Courtenay Place upstairs cocktail bar with bookshelf walls — long the late-date go-to for cocktails and dessert.
Leeds Street brewpub — the brewery is in the basement, four floors of taps and rooftop above.
QT hotel's 3rd-floor cocktail room with an eight-metre champagne wall and a harbour view that beats most rooftops.
Aro Valley's tasting room from NZ's most adventurous brewery — 30 taps and the rarest small-batch beers in the country.
Hannahs Laneway rooftop — open-air, palm-tree-flanked and the best summer drinks spot in town.
Queens Wharf two-floor bar/restaurant — harbour-side balcony, late-night dancing upstairs and one of the biggest crowds in town on Fridays.
Swan Lane red-brick bakehouse turned wine bar — nearly 1,000 wines, 100 by the glass and a kitchen to match. A serious oenophile's room.
Bright waterfront bar and eatery on the wharf — pink-hued, sun-soaked and one of the best spots in town for a harbourside afternoon drink.
Restored Edwardian villa on Willis Street — bar, restaurant and leafy courtyard with a relaxed all-day vibe and a strong cocktail and wine list.
These 14 listings are not ranked and not reviewed by us. Each one is reproduced verbatim from OpenStreetMap on 2026-08-07, with a link to the exact map entry so you can check it or correct it yourself. Opening hours are shown in OpenStreetMap's own notation.
7 Leeds Street
Hours (OSM): Su-Th 11:00-23:00, Fr,Sa 11:00-24:00
35 Agra Crescent, Wellington
Hours (OSM): Mo-Su 11:30-22:00
101 Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington
Hours (OSM): Mo-Fr 07:00-03:00, Sa,Su 10:00-03:00
18A Bond Street, Te Aro
Hours (OSM): Mo-Th 12:00-20:00; Fr 12:00-22:00; Sa 11:00-22:00; Su 11:00-18:00
155 Lambton Quay, Wellington Central
Hours (OSM): Mo-Fr 07:30-23:00
162 Karori Road, Karori
Hours (OSM): Tu-Th 12:00-22:00; Fr-Sa 09:00-23:00; Su 09:00-22:00
6 Edward street, Te Aro, Wellington
Hours (OSM): Mo-We 15:00-23:00; Th-Sa 12:00-23:00; Su 15:00-23:00
99 Main Road, Tawa
Hours (OSM): Mo-Su 11:30-21:00
2 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
Hours (OSM): Mo-Su 11:30-23:59
5 Parkvale Road, Karori
Hours (OSM): Mo-Su 11:30-18:00
7 Moxham avenue, Hataitai
Hours (OSM): Tu-Fr 17:00-21:00; Sa-Su 10:00-21:00
20A Bond Street, Te Aro
Hours (OSM): Mo-Sa 11:30-23:00; Su 11:30-19:00
52 Taranaki Street, Te Aro
Hours (OSM): Mo-We 12:00-23:00; Th 12:00-00:00; Fr-Sa 11:00-03:00; Su 11:00-23:00
95 Upland Road, Kelburn
Hours (OSM): We-Fr 16:00-23:00; Sa-Su 12:00-23:00
Business details from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — licence. Something wrong or out of date? Edit it at the source and it flows back here on the next refresh. Prefer our hand-checked picks? Read the Wellington guide.
Wellington's small-bar laws and concentrated CBD give it one of the densest, most exciting bar scenes in Australasia. Our top 10 covers the cocktail dens, craft-beer institutions and laneway hideaways that locals actually love.
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