Bar Munken
Here you sip a Stadt’s Martini to the buzz of happy people
BAR MUNKEN – COCKTAIL BAR
Two flights of stairs up in our beautiful stairwell you will find the cocktail bar Munken. Here you can sit down in a unique environment and order a cocktail, a classic drink or a good coffee drink after dinner. If you’d rather have a glass of wine or beer, we have that on the menu too.
Open Fridays and Saturdays from 4 pm. Welcome!
basement Munken
Almost 100 years ago, Varbergs Stadshotell had a so-called back pocket. The name was Källaren Munken and within its walls, many Varberg residents both ate and drank well during the years 1925-1977. Now we have recreated a small part of 1925 and this time under the name Bar Munken.
construction of the new Munken bar
When we were preparing for the new bar, we found a memory from the Stadshotellet’s construction period hidden behind the panel and you can see it at the back of the bar shelf. A bottled beer brewed in 1900 at the Helsingborg brewery. We’re guessing that a carpenter had a hard day’s work building our beloved house and hid the remains after a restorative break between the beams. In retrospect, we can still say that he was worth it, 120 years later you sit just as well here, maybe also with a beer, but now from Varberg’s local brewery Subbe.
The favorite in the last century was cognac with sugar drink, if you want sugar for your cognac today, we think you should rather hit Ahlgrens bilar. Likewise, it was compulsory to order food and Munken’s famous sandwich went in and out of the kitchen. Now we don’t force anyone but strongly recommend salty cats or home roasted nuts.
WELCOME TO THE MUNKEN – AGAIN
A monastery should have a choir for lay brothers, a chapter house and a sacristy – but the Munken on the west coast felt that it lacked a really good bar and so opened for drinks in Varberg Town Hall in 1925.
There was probably never a real Munken behind it all, but we believe it was all founded on a heavenly idea. When there wasn’t a Munken, there were all the more industrious people in the house. In 1925, the Stadshotellet was not only a hotel, but also a liquor store, town hall, bookstore, fire department and more. Most people worked, lived and played in the same building.
