Casanova Beach Bar Vrsar, stylish food and cocktails in Istria

The Casanova Beach Bar offers little lights, lounge corners and terraces by the Adriatic Sea. For a ‘beach bar’ the food is decidedly good. And they go all out with a remarkable range of cocktails.

The first thing you notice is the great setting. The ‘loose’ decor, with reeds and fishing nets, gives it a beachy feel.

The bar is set up around a walking route along the coastline. So you get a direct view of the sea and some good people-watching now and then. They all walk straight through the ‘club’.

On that walk they see inviting bar stools, little tables and chill-out benches to left and right. There is plenty of eating and drinking going on.

Casanova Beach Bar: part restaurant, and fantastic cocktails

• We had already eaten on the promenade, but the burgers here are said to be very good. The bar could easily pass for a restaurant anyway, going by all the meals we saw go past.
• The cocktails we did try for ourselves, and oh, oh, oh: they have turned out dangerously well. With a surprising amount of variety on top of that, some rather eccentric outliers and, all right, a few usual suspects.

As the stories have it, Casanova has a seductive effect. You come for one drink, say, and accidentally linger far longer than planned. We hereby confirm it.

Perhaps consider a mocktail in between. Happily they have those too… As dusk comes on, it all becomes more atmospheric still.

From Casanova to Casanova

Anyone visiting Vrsar can hardly avoid Casanova. The fishing village honours the famous writer and adventurer, because he visited and wrote about Vrsar several times.

Which is why his name turns up in various places. From Viewpoint Casanova to the Casanova Beach Bar. Which also makes a fine route to follow during your visit to Vrsar.

Dinner by the sea: beach bar versus promenade

From the viewpoint you look out over the promenade, among other things. Dinner by the sea beckons there. But on the spot it is sometimes swarming with tourists, and the ‘food huts’ look mainstream.

The mood at the stylish beach bar, by contrast, is often more relaxed. Of course it can get busy here as well, it simply feels a little different.

Whichever you go for: at both places you can sit front row for a magnificent sunset. That Casanova certainly knew how to pick them.

Update: see the moving images on Instagram.