Situated in the Best Western Premier
hotel Victoria on
Eisenbahn strasse 54, the coctail bar Hemingway is something of a
classy bar / lounge.
One of the city's most animated and amusingly theme-ish nightspots is open daily from 18:00 until 02:00 and can sit around 70 people, or course there is also standing room around the edges of the bar.
Here, within a replica of the kind of palm-studded, big-veranda Caribbean world that the famous author himself might have inhabited, you'll discover a cross-section of the city's eligible singles, a long roster of party-colored drinks, and a friendly, fun environment. Caipirinhas cost 7.80€ ($8.95) each.
Every monday is cigar night.
This bar is a well-known cocktail bar in Freiburg and boasts over 100 different fruity, creamy and bitter-fresh cocktails to tickle your fancy, there's even beer if you don't fancy the fancy drinks and a selection of local wines for the wine drinkers.
Keep an eye out for the varying art exhibitions.
In November 2000 in London, the Hotel Victoria and it's bar received the Environmental Award for the most environment friendly private hotel in the world.
Their Website Quotes "The architecture of the "Café Colonial Hemingway" is based on our love of Ernest Hemingway's literary works and lifestyle. In recent years, our cafe has become a fashionable meeting place. Over 100 cocktails are listed at the head of our unusual, typewriter-shaped menu. First of all, we engaged Mary, our barperson from the USA. The music, like our "new" guests, is now international and peppy. The new concept excited our guests from the very beginning. Now our female guests, too, are visibly more at ease in the "Hem". Astrid and Bertram Späth are agreed that more changes must be made: More light and space would do the "Hemingway" good. So, in 1990, we renovated. The dark wood panelling and sewn leather upholstery were removed. A colonial-style annex, with palms and fans, was installed. Now it's almost like being on Key West, Ernest Hemingway's adopted home. Feel the zeitgeist with us: Relax and enjoy the Caribbean feeling in a southern atmosphere with fruit-filled, sometimes fiery mixed cocktails. "
