Day & Nightlife: Basel restaurant, café and bar tips
This page is as varied as Basel’s day and nightlife scene. We make it our mission to constantly unearth new tips for you and add them to this page. We'll also be pleased to take your suggestions on board.
Basel nightlife is generally not particularly excessive and on a weekend usually most people have made their way home by 2 am at the latest. Nevertheless, a trip to Basel's restaurants, cafés and bars is well worthwhile.
Restaurants
There are over 700 restaurants in Basel. The cuisine is based on Swiss, Alsatian and Badenese traditions refined by international influences. Reservations are recommended.
- Acqua (see picture): Tuscan taverna, bar, sun terrace and lounge
- Das Schiff: surreal, kitsch 60's and 70’s atmosphere
- Restaurant Kunsthalle Basel
- Restaurant Café Papiermühle
Cafés
- Confiserie Schiesser on Marktplatz (souvenir: a box of the café’s home made pralines (“pralinés maison”))
- FumareNonFumare
- Cou Mou (close to Basel Museum of Art)
Bars
- Rio Bar (see picture)
- Campari Bar (like the Rio Bar, situated on Barfuesserplatz)
- Grenzwert (Kleinbasel)
- Bar Rouge (in the Messeturm tower)
- Eoipso
In addition, in summer there are several seasonal bars along the banks of the Rhine or on the site of the former NT-Areal industrial estate.
Clubs & discos
- Annex - electronic sound
- Route 66 - rock
- Plaza Club - exclusive
- Nordstern – alternating party nights
- Musikpark A2 - youth
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Tips & highlights
Day Room - Hotel Room for a day
Travel to or through Basel and need to freshen up or to take a rest? Our day room offer: Check-in from 9 am, check-out till 3 pm, from EUR 69,- per room.
Park, Sleep & Fly
Start your holiday in an even more relaxed frame of mind! Get yourself in the mood for a refreshing break and forget the high parking charges at the airport.
For travel agencies
Our GDS Codes for your reservation:
- SABRE: WV 37869
- APOLLO/GALILEO: WV 42383
- WORLDSPAN: WV BSLHA
- AMADEUS: WV BSLSHA
- PEGASUS: WV 37869