6 Best Bars in Rajasthan, India

The rooftop bar and restaurant serves late lunches and dinner, and several nights a week the room is cleared of tables to create a dance floor. Come for pizza or Indian snacks, and stay for cold beers, cocktails, and either a DJ or performances by local musicians. There's a range of modern pop, hip-hop, and eclectic acts, and the floor pulses with twenty- and thirty-somethings on dates and out with friends.

Located inside Hotel Pearl Palace, this is one of Jaipur's most popular bars with an extensive cocktail menu and fantastic food options offering Indian, Italian, and Chinese finger food and large plates. The dimly lit speakeasy-style bar sports hand-painted walls and stylish jewel-toned furnishing, giving the space a cozy vibe.

Decked out in crimson walls, plush upholstery, and attractive black-and-white flooring, the bar at Daspan House serves inventive cocktails that showcase Indian spirits and in-house infusions, along with a range of Indian and global bar bites in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Sign up for a tasting session of Rajasthani heritage liqueurs, which are herb-based distilled spirits made by the royal families using fiercely guarded heirloom recipes.

Sip a choice single malt or savor your cigar in an atmosphere rich in history. Rambagh Palace’s Polo Bar is an extremely elegant place to have a drink—vistas of sweeping, peacock-dotted lawns and lots of old photographs that are testimony to Jaipur’s long relationship with polo. There’s a small fountain inside the bar, and a handpicked selection of Cuban cigars available to purchase.

Hotel nightclubs usually open around dinnertime and shut by midnight, but this place is open 11–11. A local crowd will come here to dance on Saturday (the only night there's a disco); otherwise it's just a pub.They have happy hours with drinks 50% off on certain days.