The Grill Lounge has the deepest list in town and the steaks to justify opening something serious, with more than 600 reviews at a 4.8 average. If you want one bottle and one good evening, go there.
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Siem Reap is not a wine town and pretending otherwise does nobody any favours. Cambodia grows almost no wine, import duty is heavy, and the climate is hostile to anything stored badly, which is a real risk in a place where the ambient temperature sits above thirty degrees for most of the year. What the town does have is a small number of rooms that take wine seriously enough to store it properly and open bottles worth opening, and a much larger number of good bars that will happily pour you a glass of something ordinary. This list separates the two, because the difference decides your evening.
This ranking scores each venue on its Google rating weighted by review volume, then splits by what is actually in the cellar. The first group has real lists. The second pours honest glasses alongside food that suits them. The third is where the wine is beside the point but the room is good, and being straightforward about that is more useful than pretending every bar in town is a wine bar. Expect $6 to $12 a glass and $30 to $60 a bottle, and expect the by-the-glass options to be short, because a bar that opens ten bottles a night in this climate is throwing most of them away.
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Bars worth your evening where the wine is beside the point. Said plainly, because the alternative is pretending.
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Real wine lists
The five rooms where someone chose the bottles on purpose, stores them properly and can talk about them.
| # | Bar | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | The Grill Lounge | Wine bar & grill | $$ | (600+) |
| 🥈 | Somaha Meat & Chill | Steakhouse & wine bar | $$ | (300+) |
| 🥉 | Mr CIAO | Italian wine bar | $$ | (200+) |
| 4 | Temple Sky Lounge | Sky lounge | $$ | (500+) |
| 5 | BAR43 | Cocktail & wine bar | $$ | (200+) |
1The Grill LoungeEditor's pick
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: The deepest wine list in town, steaks to match
2Somaha Meat & ChillBest atmosphere
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Wine bought by the bottle, meat to go with it
3Mr CIAOBest atmosphere
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Italian list, highest rating on the page
4Temple Sky Lounge
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Wine above the noise of Pub Street
5BAR43
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Small list, serious pours
A good glass with something to eat
Honest by-the-glass pours alongside food that suits them. Where you go for one drink that turns into dinner.
| # | Bar | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | The Corner Zone | Bistro & bar | $$ | (400+) |
| 7 | The Street | Restaurant & bar | $$ | (150+) |
| 8 | Amun Bar & Restaurant | Bar & restaurant | $$ | (150+) |
| 9 | Soben Cafe Guesthouse & Restaurant | Café & bar | $$ | (150+) |
| 10 | Harry's Lounge | Lounge bar | $$ | (50+) |
6The Corner ZoneBest value
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: European wines at Khmer prices
7The Street
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: A perfect 5.0 across nearly 200 reviews
8Amun Bar & Restaurant
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Quiet room, glass pours, no music war
9Soben Cafe Guesthouse & RestaurantBest value
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Wine by the glass without the markup
10Harry's Lounge
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Tiny lounge off the lane, near-perfect rating
Good rooms, wine optional
Bars worth your evening where the wine is beside the point. Said plainly, because the alternative is pretending.
| # | Bar | Style | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Welsh Consulate Siem Reap | Bar | $$ | (150+) |
| 12 | Ambar Cocktails & Karaoke Bar | Cocktail bar | $$ | (100+) |
| 13 | Siem Reap Cocktails and Cafe | Cocktail café | $$ | (50+) |
| 14 | Cozy Bar | Neighbourhood bar | $ | (150+) |
11Welsh Consulate Siem Reap
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Not a consulate, and the wine is beside the point
12Ambar Cocktails & Karaoke Bar
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Cocktails first, wine if you ask
13Siem Reap Cocktails and Cafe
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Day café, evening bar
14Cozy Bar
blog.bestWineBars.col_bestFor: Cheap, unpretentious, open late
What to drink with Khmer food
Khmer cooking runs on lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime, fish sauce and fresh herbs, with far less chilli heat than Thai food and a lot more sour and aromatic weight. That combination is difficult for a heavy red and very easy for an off-dry white or a crisp rosé, which is why the best wine order in this town is usually the one that costs least. Amok, with coconut and steamed fish, takes a Riesling or a Chenin comfortably.
Grilled beef with Kampot pepper is the one dish that genuinely wants a red, and that is where the steakhouse lists earn their place. If none of this is on offer, order the beer, because a lukewarm Cabernet against a lemongrass broth is a worse outcome than an Angkor draught.
Heat, storage and why the bottle matters more than the label
The single biggest threat to a bottle of wine in Cambodia is not price, it is the twelve months it may have spent above thirty degrees before you ordered it. Wine cooked in storage tastes flat and stewed, and no amount of vintage on the label rescues it. This is why the rooms with proper cabinets rank where they do, and why ordering the most expensive bottle in an unremarkable bar is a worse bet than ordering the cheapest bottle in a good one.
Two practical rules. Prefer bars with visible temperature-controlled storage, and prefer whites and rosés in places you are unsure about, because heat damage shows up faster and more obviously in a red and you will drink the mistake before you notice it.
Which bars actually have a wine list
Three names carry this category. The Grill Lounge has the deepest selection in town, unsurprisingly, because a steakhouse has a reason to keep serious bottles and the turnover to justify it. Somaha Meat & Chill works on the same logic at a slightly lower price and is the better value of the two.
Mr CIAO holds the Italian corner, a shorter list chosen with more conviction, and its 4.9 average across more than 250 reviews is the highest on this page. Below those three the lists get thin fast, and that is the honest state of wine in Siem Reap: a handful of rooms doing it properly rather than a scene. If a bar offers you a choice of red or white, that is the entire list.
Wine by area
The serious lists sit in the centre, along Sivutha Boulevard and the streets running off it, close enough to the Old Market to walk and far enough from Pub Street that you can hear each other. Temple Sky Lounge is the exception, directly above the strip, which buys you a view and costs you the quiet. The Old Market lane holds the smallest rooms, Harry's Lounge among them, where the appeal is the room rather than the cellar.
The eastern side of the river, around Wat Bo, carries the quieter neighbourhood bars that pour a decent glass without ceremony. Nothing on this list is more than a ten-minute walk or a two-dollar tuk-tuk from the river.
Where residents drink
Residents drink wine at home, mostly, because the duty makes a bottle in a bar cost three times a bottle in a shop and everyone here knows it. When they go out for wine it tends to be Somaha or Mr CIAO on a weeknight, both because the pours are honest and because neither room fills with people who arrived that afternoon. The Welsh Consulate, Amun and Cozy Bar are where the long-stay crowd actually ends up, and none of them are wine bars in any meaningful sense, which is exactly why they are in the third group rather than left off the page.
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Ratings, addresses, opening hours and coordinates come from our own Siem Reap directory, refreshed from Google Places.
Weighted scoring
Each bar was scored on its Google rating weighted by the logarithm of its review count, so a perfect score on a small base does not displace a 4.8 across more than 600.
Local correction
The list was then split by what is actually in the cellar, because the score alone cannot tell a wine bar apart from a good bar that keeps two bottles behind the counter.
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Open the directoryFrequently asked questions
What is the best wine bar in Siem Reap?
The Grill Lounge, on the weighted score and on the depth of the list. Mr CIAO rates higher at 4.9 and has the better Italian selection on a shorter list.
How much is a glass of wine in Siem Reap?
$6 to $12 a glass, $30 to $60 a bottle. Import duty is the reason, not the markup, and a bottle costs about a third of that in a shop.
Is the wine stored properly here?
In the rooms with visible temperature-controlled cabinets, yes. Elsewhere assume the bottle has spent months above thirty degrees, and order white or rosé where heat damage is easier to spot.
Are there real wine lists or just red and white?
Three places have a list worth reading: The Grill Lounge, Somaha Meat & Chill and Mr CIAO. Below those, red-or-white is genuinely the whole list.
What wine goes with Khmer food?
An off-dry white or a crisp rosé. Khmer cooking is aromatic and sour rather than hot, which suits Riesling and Chenin and defeats a heavy red.
Where can I drink wine with a view?
Temple Sky Lounge, directly above Pub Street. You trade quiet for the view, which is a fair trade once.
Is there anywhere cheap to drink wine?
The Corner Zone and Soben Cafe pour European wine without the centre markup. Both are on this list for that reason.
Do wine bars in Siem Reap serve food?
Most of the serious ones are attached to a kitchen, usually a steakhouse or an Italian one, because food is what makes a wine list financially possible here.
Do I need to book?
Rarely. Between December and February a table at The Grill Lounge or Mr CIAO on a weekend is worth a phone call, otherwise walk in.
Why is wine so expensive in Cambodia?
Import duty and shipping, plus the cost of storing it properly in this climate. Nothing here is grown locally, so every bottle arrives with those costs attached.