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Cocktail Lounge Restaurants
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Ottawa Restaurants

Cocktail Lounge Restaurants
1

WARD 14

9.5
Cocktail Lounge · Little Italy / Preston Street · $$

A Preston Street consignment cocktail bar for playful drinks, Steamies, vintage browsing, and a clear late-night value move.

2

The Moonroom

9.0
Cocktail Lounge · Little Italy / Preston Street · $$$

The Moonroom is a compact Preston Street cocktail lounge built for intimate drinks, small plates, and slow late-night pacing. Lead with the bar program, add a few savoury snacks, and treat the visit as a mood-driven splurge rather than a full-dinner value play.

3

Rabbit Hole

8.8
Cocktail Lounge · Downtown Ottawa Core · $$

Rabbit Hole is a Sparks Street cocktail-lounge restaurant built around oysters, pizza, polished drinks, a hidden Jackalope room, and a weather-dependent rooftop tiki bar.

4

Union Local 613

8.8
Cocktail Lounge · Chinatown (Somerset Street West) · $$

Union Local 613 is a Southern-inspired Centretown restaurant built around fried chicken, shrimp and grits, Frito Pie, cocktails, whiskey, weekday drink value, late-night food, and a bookshelf-hidden basement bar.

5

Charlotte

8.5
Cocktail Lounge · Elgin Street Corridor · $$$

Charlotte is an upstairs Elgin Street cocktail-and-wine lounge built like a living room: sofas, low light, sharply described cocktails, vegetarian-friendly snacks, and weekend DJ energy without turning the whole thing into a club.