Here you sip a Stadt’s Martini to the buzz of happy people

BAR MUNKEN – COCKTAIL BAR in Varberg

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.

Bar Munken is open Fridays and Saturdays from 4 pm. 16.00.

Munken illustration

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.

Sign outside Munken at Varbergs Stadshotell 1954
Gammal ölflaska från Källaren 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 BAR MUNKEN – AGAIN

A monastery may have its choir, chapter house and sacristy – but the monk on Sweden’s west coast felt something was missing: a really good bar. And so, in 1925, Munken opened its doors for drinks at Varbergs Town Hall.

There probably never was a real monk behind it all, but we like to think the idea was divinely inspired. And while there may not have been a monk, there were certainly plenty of busy people in the building. Back in 1925, Stadshotellet was much more than a hotel. The building was also home to the town hall, a state-run liquor store, a bookshop, the fire brigade and more. Many people worked, lived and enjoyed themselves under the very same roof.

Interiör i Bar Munken, vår cocktailbar på Varbergs Stadshotell