Ranked shortlist · 10 of 17 bars
Best bars in Lucknow
The 10 most notable bars in Lucknow, 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.
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1
Aabshaar Rooftop Bar
5th floor, Hotel Ranbirs, CP-125
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.508, percentile 100 of 17
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2
Saraca
Lebua Lucknow, Saraca Estate, 19, Mall Avenue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.505, percentile 93.75 of 17
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3
EOS Bar & Bistro
Hotel Levana, 72 M G Marg, Adjacent to Tej Kr Plaza, Hazratganj
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.369, percentile 87.5 of 17
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4
Lord of the drinks
6th floor, The Regnant, A-35, Aliganj Main Rd, near Ram Krishna Math
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.303, percentile 81.25 of 17
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5
Molecule Air Bar
RiverSide Mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.146, percentile 75 of 17
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6
The Spot Hookah Bar and Lounge
545-KA/3/039 Purvideen Khera, Near Suryodaya Public Inter College, Opposite Ring Road, Para Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.137, percentile 68.75 of 17
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7
Boombox Lucknow
1st Floor, The Summit, Vibhuti Khand, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.894, percentile 62.5 of 17
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8
Blue Fox Bar
150, Faizabad Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.886, percentile 56.25 of 17
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9
Distillery Lucknow
Shop No. A-1501 to A- 1504, 15th floor, Rohtas Summit building, TCG 3, 3
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.819, percentile 50 of 17
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10
Maya Lounge & Cafe
K.S Tower near SKD Hospital ,Kanpur Road , Alambagh Lucknow
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.697, percentile 43.75 of 17
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.
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).