7 Best Bars in The Sporades, Greece

This one is a real gem: set on the hillside of Chora, it enjoys stupendous views over the island, without a bad seat in the house. By day it's a café and dessert parlor, serving pastries and local cakes like Alonnisos milk pie. By night though, it transforms into sultry piano bar, with live music and singing every evening, and good range of cocktails.

Climbing up a set of steps behind the main run of boutiques are—aptly—a range of bright blue tables and chairs belonging the music bar and café, which plays rock, jazz, and (yes) blues, until the early hours.

The tip of the promontory beneath the fortress (Bourtzi) is an atmospheric spot for sundowners, and for starlit, sophisticated drinks by night.

This boozy joint in Patitiri has a surf-inspired outfit, and reggae and pop music pumping across the harbor from the early evening until 4 am except for Saturday. Cocktails are large, sugary, and ostentatious; and service is fast and friendly.

A young, professional crowd gathers here for rhythm and blues, funk, soul, and classic rock starting at 10 pm.

This perch just above the waterfront is ideal for a leisurely breakfast or invigorating sunset drinks with a stunning view and a soundtrack of world music.

Takis, the owner, is also the DJ here, and he loves spinning the best tunes in town.