Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino partners with LINE Athens, ranked No. 8 on The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 list, for a new fine drinking experience at Three Admirals Lounge.
Fine drinking has become one of the most telling details of a contemporary luxury hotel. Not as an accessory to the stay, but as part of its atmosphere, its sense of place and the way a guest remembers it. At Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, that idea now takes a particularly interesting form through a new collaboration with LINE Athens.
The resort has partnered with one of the most influential names in the contemporary cocktail scene, currently ranked No. 8 on The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 list. The collaboration takes place at Three Admirals Lounge, introducing a new fine drinking concept titled “The Journey of Ambrosia x The Art of Drinking.”
It is not a classic bar takeover, nor simply a guest menu. It is a more composed idea: a cocktail experience built around precision, sustainability, local identity and a sense of ritual.
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At the heart of the collaboration is the meeting of two worlds. On one side, Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, a resort shaped by its Messinian landscape, its sea-facing calm and its quietly polished sense of hospitality. On the other, LINE Athens, the bar that helped confirm Athens as one of the world’s most exciting drinking capitals.
Known for its inventive approach to cocktails, fermentation and circular thinking, LINE Athens brings to Costa Navarino a philosophy that questions the obvious and strips away the unnecessary. Its so-called “method of anarchy” is not about disorder, but about freedom from convention: a way of rethinking flavour, ingredients and technique with discipline rather than excess.
At Three Admirals Lounge, this philosophy is translated into a menu that moves between eastern influences and the character of Messinia.
A cocktail menu inspired by ambrosia
The concept takes its cue from ambrosia, the mythical food of the gods, here interpreted as a symbol of transformation and elevation. The idea is that a cocktail can be more than an aperitif. It can become a small ceremony, shaped by ingredients, seasonality, technique and setting.
The menu is structured as a journey through two chapters. One looks east, bringing in ingredients such as yuzu, sake, plum wine and jasmine rice. The other turns toward Messinia, with olive oil, Kalamata olives, local white wine and retsina aged in amphora.
Among the signature creations is the Yuzu Margarita, where Japanese yuzu meets blanco tequila and sake. The Eastern Negroni offers a more layered interpretation of the classic, balancing bitterness with plum wine and jasmine rice.
From the Messinian side, the Admiral’s Wet Martini brings a distinctly maritime profile, combining gin with olive oil and amphora-aged retsina. The Kalamata Olive Spritz takes a lighter direction, pairing Messinian white wine with the unmistakable flavour of the Kalamata olive.
Fine drinking with a sense of place
What makes the collaboration interesting is not only the presence of a globally ranked bar inside a luxury resort. It is the way the menu responds to its location.
At Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, the experience is designed to shift throughout the day. Earlier drinks are lighter, more immediate and sunlit in character. As evening approaches, the cocktails become deeper, more complex and more contemplative. It is an elegant idea, because it allows the bar to follow the mood of the landscape rather than interrupt it.
Every cocktail is shaped by context: seasonal, local and expressive without becoming theatrical. Ingredients are selected with care, used with respect and reimagined through a creative process that places sustainability and balance at the centre of the experience.
A new reason to visit Three Admirals Lounge
For Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, the collaboration adds another layer to the resort’s growing identity as one of Greece’s most sophisticated addresses. For LINE Athens, it is a chance to bring its philosophy into a different landscape, one defined by sea, olive groves and the slower rhythm of the Peloponnese.
The result is a fine drinking experience that feels measured, atmospheric and deeply connected to its surroundings. A cocktail here is not simply mixed. It is placed within a setting, a time of day and a story.
And that may be the most modern luxury gesture of all.
For a closer look at the resort itself, read my full experience at Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, from the architecture and atmosphere to the details that make it one of Greece’s most talked-about luxury stays.
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