Best Rooftop Bars in West Palm Beach

Here is what your Thursday evening looks like when you live downtown: you walk out of your building, you're at a rooftop bar with views across the Intracoastal to Palm Beach Island in ten minutes, and the light is doing something to the water that you never quite get used to no matter how long you've been here.

The WPB rooftop scene has been expanding steadily — new openings have added genuine competition to a category that used to have one obvious answer. Here's the current landscape.

Kyma Tarazza — 151 N Olive Ave

The newest entry and immediately the most elevated — in every sense. Kyma's Tarazza rooftop at 300 Banyan is the highest open-air dining terrace in downtown WPB, with 360-degree views that take in the Intracoastal, Palm Beach Island, and the city below. It's a full Greek seafood menu up here, not just cocktails — grilled fish, mezze, a wine program that matches the ambition of the setting.

This is the rooftop you bring people to when you want to make an impression. Book ahead.

The Ben Hotel Rooftop — 251 N Flagler Dr

Before Kyma, this was the answer to every "where should we go for drinks with a view" question in WPB — and it still earns that. The Intracoastal views from The Ben's rooftop are genuinely among the best in the city, the cocktail program is well-executed, and on a clear evening with the light going gold over the water, there's nowhere else you'd rather be.

The move: arrive at 6:30pm during season. You get the sunset. You get the view before the crowd fills it. You stay through dark and the city looks completely different from above. Regulars know this. Now you do too.

Elisabetta's Rooftop — 185 Banyan Blvd

Elisabetta's runs a rooftop that fits naturally into a dinner-and-drinks evening rather than a destination bar night. Italian food below, the rooftop for drinks before or after — the Rosemary Square location means you're already in the middle of downtown's most walkable dining stretch. Less about the views, more about the vibe. Good for groups, good for date nights, good for any evening where you want options within walking distance.

Roxy's Rooftop — 309 Clematis St

Roxy's has a rooftop pool. On Clematis Street. That alone makes it worth knowing about.

Beyond the pool: Roxy's is the rooftop for when you want a real bar night rather than a produced experience. Casual, fun, unpretentious — the kind of place locals actually go on a random Wednesday, not just for the curated season crowd. It's been part of the Clematis Street fabric long enough that it doesn't need to prove itself, and the combination of rooftop bar and pool makes it genuinely unique in the downtown WPB landscape.

The downtown rooftop scene keeps expanding. Buildings coming online through 2027 will add more — but the four above are what the landscape looks like right now, and between them you have options for every kind of evening.

This guide is provided by DO Homes Group, West Palm Beach's luxury condo specialists. For personalized recommendations, contact our team.