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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 580 bars

Best bars in Hamburg

The 10 most notable bars in Hamburg, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    The Boilerman Bar Hafenamt

    25hours Hotel Altes Hafenamt, Osakaallee 12

    193 m from Überseequartier, metro

    Website·4940555575440

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 100 of 580

  2. 2

    Haifisch Bar

    Große Elbstraße 128

    351 m from Altes Fährterminal Altona, ferry

    Website·+49403809342

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 99.83 of 580

  3. 3

    Irish Pub In The Fleetenkieker

    Börsenbrücke 10

    202 m from Rathaus, metro

    Website·494036093599

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 99.65 of 580

  4. 4

    Crazy Horst

    Hein-Hoyer-Straße 62

    545 m from St. Pauli, metro

    Website·4915156503929

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 99.48 of 580

  5. 5

    Barbarabar

    Hamburger Berg 11

    375 m from Reeperbahn station, rail

    Website·4916090361519

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 99.31 of 580

  6. 6

    Black Forest Bar - by henn

    Curschmannstraße 9

    359 m from Eppendorfer Baum metro station, metro

    Website·+494030031400

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 99.14 of 580

  7. 7

    Pulverfass Cabaret

    Reeperbahn 147

    188 m from Reeperbahn station, rail

    Website·+4940247878

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 98.96 of 580

  8. 8

    Berglund

    Gertigstraße 14

    Website·+494078052908

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 98.79 of 580

  9. 9

    Caipi-Colada

    Kanalstraße 2

    773 m from Mundsburg, metro

    Website·+49402296329

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 98.62 of 580

  10. 10

    Hafenbahnhof

    Große Elbstraße 276

    Website·+491705089554

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 98.45 of 580

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).