As soon as upon a time, not all that way back, the Negroni was extra of a notion than a actuality. Exterior of its Italian dwelling base, the Negroni existed extra in books and previous newspapers than it did in glasses sliding throughout bar tops. However over the previous 15 years or so, the Negroni has mounted probably the most profitable comebacks in cocktail historical past, spawning an limitless stream of impressed riffs, together with the worldwide celebration of Negroni Week, happening this yr September 22–28.

The Negroni is greater than a cocktail. Influential and galvanizing, it’s additionally a way of life that takes completely different types wherever it goes. Because the cocktail’s fortunes have risen, so have the variety of bars worldwide that maintain the Negroni and its many kin in excessive esteem. In celebration of this yr’s Negroni Week, we’re taking a short tour of a few of our favourite bars all over the world for sipping Negronis and residing the aperitivo way of life.

Europe

MILAN, ITALY: BAR BASSO

Since opening its doorways in 1947 within the coronary heart of Milan, Bar Basso has earned a world fame for a number of causes: The bar is usually credited as being the primary to convey aperitivo tradition to the lots; it has grow to be the unofficial assembly place for the worldwide design group; and, lastly, the bar is the birthplace of a Negroni variant you’ve probably heard (so much) about—the Sbagliato. The story goes that in 1972, Mirko Stocchetto, the daddy of the bar’s present proprietor Maurizio Stocchetto, was mixing a Negroni and by accident added a pour of Prosecco as an alternative of gin. The consequence was a lighter, spritzy different to the basic, and the “mistaken” Negroni turned enshrined among the many drink’s different variations. Crowds flock to the bar day by day, the place numerous Sbagliatos are nonetheless served from Basso’s signature outsized goblets.

MILAN, ITALY: CAMPARINO IN GALLERIA

Opened in 1915 by Davide Campari—his father, Gaspare, created the eponymous bitter simply shy of fifty years prior—Camparino is among the most influential aperitivo bars in and past Italy. Located inside a landmark Nineteenth-century purchasing arcade simply steps from the Duomo, the bi-level spot has epically excessive ceilings, intricate mosaics and frescoes, and stylish Italian liberty furnishings. It’s a glamorous backdrop for plates like prosciutto crudo, vitello tonnato, and Milanese veal cutlets, plus basic and ingenious cocktails served in two distinct venues. Count on Negronis, Garibaldis, and the superbly chilled Campari Seltz on the ground-floor Bar di Passo. Head upstairs to the mod Sala Spiritello to pattern seasonal and home creations, together with the Compadre (Campari, mezcal, purple vermouth, and chinotto), the Velvettino (Campari, Grand Marnier, Champagne, and orange marmalade sorbet) and the Porcini Negroni.

BERLIN, GERMANY: BAR MILANO

For greater than a decade, this elegant bar close to Rosenthaler Platz has been bringing basic Italian aperitivo tradition to the guts of Berlin’s Mitte district. Along with goblet-sized Aperol and Campari Spritzes, the menu boasts a spread of Negronis, together with the basic, Sbagliato, and mezcal variations. There’s additionally a brief, Italian-focused wine record and a handful of globe-trotting specialty cocktails (ciao, Espresso Martini). Go to throughout aperitivo hour to sit down al fresco and sip a cocktail alongside small plates of Italian finger meals; or swing by later within the night when full of life crowds collect across the modern marble bar.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: TJOGET

Opened in 2012 with the purpose of being a neighborhood bar, Tjoget, within the Hornstull district of central Stockholm’s Södermalm, turned a pivotal pressure within the transformation of the realm into a classy, cultural hub. At this time, the cocktail bar is routinely acknowledged among the many world’s greatest. Pulling inspiration from Mediterranean flavors, the bar group places its inventive spin on basic cocktails, and the Negroni stays a perpetual favourite. Seasonal choices have included One other Strawberry Negroni with a strawberry aperitif rather than vermouth, accented with white cacao and olive oil. Ongoing Tjoget faves embody a Watermelon Garibaldi, and the Ardour Fruit Negroni Shakerato, with peach, lime, and keenness fruit. Cease in throughout Negroni Week, and also you simply may be capable of snag one in every of their customized Negroni jerseys.

Nice Britain

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND: HEY PALU

There’s a refined distinction in local weather separating Italy’s Amalfi Coast and Scotland’s Edinburgh Outdated City, however contained in the amari- and aperitivo-focused bar Hey Palu, some other variations quickly fall away. “Negronis and aperitivo-style drinks are an enormous a part of our providing in Hey Palu,” says Alex Palumbo (Paluto his longtime mates), the bar’s co-owner with Rachel Bailey-Palumbo. Basic Negronis are an enormous draw (a portion of every drink’s gross sales go to a neighborhood canine rescue charity), as are trendy interpretations just like the White Strawberry Negroni and the Rhubarb Americano. “We provide a Negroni flight as nicely, which is a superb introduction for individuals who perhaps haven’t had the cocktail earlier than,” Palumbo says. “It features a smaller model of our basic Negroni, the White Strawberry Negroni, and our Caffé Cyroni, a rum-based Negroni laced with espresso bean aromas and Cynar amaro as an alternative of vermouth.”

LONDON: MELE E PERE

Pizza, pasta, and Negronis go collectively like … nicely, pizza, pasta, and Negronis, and that rule holds as true in London because it does in Naples or Milan. This Soho trattoria has been turning out handmade spaghetti and spritzes for greater than a dozen years, and in that point it’s additionally garnered a fame for its eager method to aperitivi and Italian-style cocktails, together with its signature Negroni made with their very own house-made vermouth.

“Having constructed up London’s largest assortment of vermouth over time, we’ve been lucky to experiment with all kinds of types of Negronis, which in flip has helped us to refine our do-it-yourself vermouth,” says co-owner Chris Hughes. “We needed it to have sufficient spine to essentially come by way of in a Negroni, however be capable of rise up by itself two ft and be scrumptious by itself with botanicals like fig, strawberry, and lemongrass. I believe we’ve managed to attain that.”

South America

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: FLORERÍA ATLÁNTICO

This subterranean bar beneath a flower store within the Retiro neighborhood has topped each “better of” record within the bar world in recent times, however Florería Atlántico’s roots run a lot deeper. Beneath the steerage of Tato Giovannoni, the group at Florería Atlántico crafts cocktails knowledgeable by the reaches of Argentina’s historical past, from the pre-Columbian period to waves of contemporary migration. This historic basis informs the bar’s Negroni menu as nicely, devoted to Giovannoni’s grandfather Lelo and dubbed Los Negronis del Abuelo—the Grandfather’s Negronis. The menu is highlighted by the bar’s signature Negroni Balestrini, with gin from Argentina, Campari, Averna, and purified water, completed with grill-smoked eucalyptus to evoke “the scent of Sunday parrilladas, the place reminiscence, fireplace, and affection meet.”

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: OROPEL

The scene at this fun-loving vermutería in Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte neighborhood extends from the comfy indoor area onto the sidewalk, the place revelers sit at canary-yellow tables alongside a hand-painted piece by the Durango artist and designer It’s a Residing. The bar serves greater than 20 forms of vermouth, pure wines from cult producers like Marine et Pierre and Domaine Ganevat, and an array of basic and home cocktails; the bar’s weekly “Negroni Mondays” showcase a rotating forged of native bartenders. Visitor cooks and restaurant pop-ups curate the snack-centric menus of oysters, cheese plates, pan conjamón, tinned fish, and equally shareable fare.

SANTIAGO, CHILE: BAR LA PROVIDENCIA

Since opening seven years in the past, Bar La Providencia—situated in Santiago’s prosperous Las Condes district—has been serving high-concept cocktails with a full of life, neighborhood-bar vibe. The method of the bar program goals to “emphasize the reclamation of Chilean components,” says proprietor Paula Nazal. That is seen in the usage of components like maqui berry and Pajarete, a candy wine made in northern Chile, in addition to the 85 labels of Chilean pisco the bar carries.

It’s no shock that their appreciation for the Negroni will get experimental with native flavors, just like the Amor y Lujuria, which is infused with strawberries and cacao, together with a pisco Negroni, naturally. A well-liked signature drink from the bar’s Inconsciente Colectivo menu (collective unconscious, meant to represent the reminiscences and sides of Chilean life and tradition), the Visita del Sur is a smoked Negroni with maqui berry shrub and vermouth infused with grilled pears and apples.

Asia-Pacific

HONG KONG, CHINA: BAR LEONE

Rome native and hospitality vet Lorenzo Antinori brough this love of Italian consuming tradition to Hong Kong in 2023 with the opening of Bar Leone within the metropolis’s Central district. Two years later, the world has taken discover, with the bar named Greatest New Worldwide Bar at Tales of the Cocktail’s Spirited Awards in 2024, Greatest Worldwide Bar in 2025, and touchdown within the No. 2 slot on the World’s 50 Greatest Bars record (and No. 1 in Asia). However the bar’s vibe stays informal and welcoming with drinks each enjoyable and accessible—their “cocktail popolari” stance makes all recipes accessible to the general public. The bar incorporates a collection of largely basic cocktails expertly assembled with their very own twist, like a fragile Fig Leaf Negroni or a vivid Yuzu Negroni with Suze and yuzu sake.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: BAR CONTE

Adoration for the Negroni abounds all through Australia, with Sydney boasting a number of bars devoted particularly to the drink. Bar Conte, named in homage to Rely Camillo Negroni, opened within the metropolis’s Surry Hills neighborhood in 2021 and was among the many first to proclaim itself a devoted Negroni bar. Lengthy the imaginative and prescient of co-owner Raffaele Lombard, whose love for the Negroni started whereas rising up on the Amalfi Coast, Bar Conte boasts greater than two dozen variants, some basic—just like the Milano-Torino and the Boulevardier—and a few unique, just like the Berlioni with gin, dry vermouth, and Cynar, or the Mary & Camillo mash-up. Bar Conte’s second location opened within the coronary heart of downtown Sydney earlier this yr, evolving the idea with much more unique riffs and an expansive assortment of vermouth and amari.

North America

Toronto, Canada: Bar Pompette

Craving a Negroni made with olive oil-washed gin or recent tarragon? You’re in luck: Negroni variations that includes these components and extra headline the wildly ingenious drinks menu at this award-winning vacation spot in Little Italy. A part of a household of Toronto institutions that features a bakery and sit-down restaurant, Bar Pompette seats 30 in banquettes and round its marble bar indoors, and has a twinkling yard patio. Along with a rotating record of basic and artistic Negronis, home specialties embody the Nitro Colada (clarified pineapple juice, coconut oil-washed rum, housemade falernum, and spiced curry leaf) and Paloma Quemada (a carbonated mixture of tequila, mezcal, burnt grapefruit, whey, and lime), plus snacks like caramelized nuts, cheeseboards, and a not-to-be-missed baba au Calvados.

LOS ANGELES: CAPRI CLUB

Italy’s aperitivo tradition is legendarily sun-soaked, with sun shades a de rigueur accompaniment to each spritz. When Los Angeles restaurateur Robert Fleming started his 2022 makeover of The Capri Italian, an Eagle Rock restaurant that first opened in 1963, he acknowledged Italy’s affect may lengthen past the plate. “Los Angeles had a critical want for aperitivo cocktails loved outdoors within the solar,” Fleming says. “Importing the consuming tradition of Italy made a variety of sense.” At this time, Capri Membership’s outside tables are topped with colourful mixes of Italian-inspired cocktails from Pete St. Peter and shared plates by Puglia native Francesco Allegro. The basic Negroni (or with mezcal swapped in forgin) is constantly a topseller, as are Frozen Negronis made with the basic base fleshed out California-style with touches of orange and grapefruit juices. “It’s the proper chilly drink on a heat day outdoors on the sidewalk—not too candy, and completely approachable.”

NEW YORK CITY: DANTE

The Negroni’s birthplace could also be Italy, however its stateside house is Dante. Opened in 1915 as Caffè Dante in New York Metropolis’s Greenwich Village, when the neighborhood was largely Italian immigrants, the 900-square-foot area has remained a favourite by way of the many years, from espresso store to world-class bar. When Linden Satisfaction took the reins as co-owner in 2015, Dante bought critical with its cocktail program (touchdown within the No. 1 slot on the World’s 50 Greatest Bars record in 2019) however remained true to the bar’s Italian aperitivo heritage. At this time, amongst a listing of expertly made home cocktails, the Negroni holds courtroom with its personal menu. Dubbed the Negroni Classes, it boasts greater than a dozen takes, together with their beloved Chocolate Negroni. However don’t depart earlier than attempting the bar’s signature drink: a Garibaldi with Campari and fluffy orange juice.

PORTLAND, OREGON: NOSTRANA

Not solely an Italian establishment based by acclaimed chef Cathy Whims, Portland restaurant Nostrana was additionally the unique dwelling of the Negroni Social, a long-running one-night celebration launched in 2011 by then-bar supervisor Douglas Derrick and Nicholas Suhor, and an inspiration for Negroni Week. After a yr of tinkering with Negroni variations, Derrick and Suhor created the invite-only celebration to showcase 12 interpretations, with drink gross sales benefitting Portland charities. At this time, the restaurant’s Rooster Bar nonetheless serves top-of-the-line Negronis round, together with new variations and riffs from a decade’s value of their Negroni-of-the-Month archives, like Czech That Off the Record with Outdated Tom gin, Campari, Becherovka, Cocchi Americano, and Amaro Braulio.

SAN DIEGO: J & TONY’S DISCOUNT CURED MEATS & NEGRONI WAREHOUSE

The Negroni is a critical cocktail, however that doesn’t imply it at all times must be taken severely. Exhibit A: J & Tony’s in San Diego, which CH Initiatives accomplice and J & Tony’s co-founder Anthony Schmidt admits originated as form of a joke. “It was an inside joke, with me explaining what a Negroni was to the chef,” Schmidt says. “‘What’s a Negroni? It’s artwork, essentially the most scrumptious drink there ever might be, a present Italy has given us!’ It turned a light-hearted debate, and that inside joke changed into, ‘What if we made a whole institution based mostly on the thought of deep-discount Negronis?’”

The Negroni and its kin have confirmed fertile terrain for J & Tony’s bartenders over time, spawning spinoffs just like the chai-accented Masala Negroni, which was additionally served at CH Initiatives’ Lou Lou’s Jungle Room, and a Miami Vice twist with a slushy Negroni as one of many swirled-in elements. “We like to remain tongue in cheek,” Schmidt says. “Can one thing be foolish and self-deprecating whereas additionally being scrumptious and considerate?”

San Francisco: Bar Sprezzatura

Despite the fact that Bar Sprezzatura, a part of Chef Michael Mina’s MINA Group, boasts an award-winning wine program, the Monetary District Italian bar additionally incorporates a classic amaro program. The choice, curated by mixologist and accomplice Carlo Splendorini, at present contains 42 classic amaro and aperitif bottles. Discover the dusty bottles by way of a tasting flight the place the employees will fortunately stroll one by way of every amaro. Splendorini costs every style “for the worth of the product” as to not scare off the curious. “If they aren’t acquainted with the product, and it’s costly, then friends wouldn’t order it and we wouldn’t be capable of create these moments for them,” he explains. 

In the meantime, hard-core Negroni lovers will wish to order the Classic White Negroni made with a gold saffrony liqueur from the Nineteen Fifties, and the oldest bottle in inventory, the “Goccia D oro” Cogliati Manzoni liqueur. The restaurant additionally affords 4 different Negronis, together with a Soiled Negroni made with a strawberry brine.