To understand the pub scenario in Genoa, you have to visit this bar in Piazza delle Erbe. It is a very popular place with young boys and girls. You will find them hanging around the bar on Fridays and having fun, drinking cocktails or beer with groups of friends. The restaurant offers great finger foods with excellent collection of cocktails, but the main attraction of the place is beer. The pub 28 Erbe is an ideal place to have parties or chill out with friends, but you can even spend a romantic and cozy evening with your partner.
By day this place dominates the beach with its umbrellas and sun beds. By night it is transformed into a vivacious club. Estoril Beach Club offers two dance floors and the music keeps playing till wee hours of the night here. One dance floor is under the stars, great for those warm summer nights, the other is inside. You can also go shopping by night in the well organized shopping area or have an aperitif on the terrace and eat a pizza or dine at the private restaurant, which is open till midnight.
Les Barriques is a popular wine bar in town. It has an old worldly charm to it with its period decor. The major highlight of the bar is its wide variety of whiskies, rum and wines. Here visitors can enjoy international premium cocktails, excellent selection of wines and champagnes, and a huge choice of rums from all over the world. Drinks can be enjoyed along with bar food like Bruschetta and Fassona burgers.
Pub del Duca was established in 1995, and is located along the scenic Promenade of Nervi. This pub is rated as one of the best in Genoa, and is run by beer enthusiast Roberto. The main feature of this bar is its location, as it faces a beautiful and quiet beach, and during summers the atmosphere here is breathtaking. Here one can try some beer from the best Italian micro brewers (Le Baladin, Montegioco & Barley), from Belgium (Cantillon), from U.S. (Anchor, Flying dog, Rogue, Great Divide) and other popular beers from around the world. The food menu is rather short and simple, with a few options in seafood and local specialties (homemade pastas and meat dishes).