Basecamp Bar: twenty craft beers and a south-facing beer garden
On avenue Ravanel-le-Rouge, the Big Mountain Brewing Company's bar pours 20 beers on tap, with a south-facing terrace and a big beer garden near the Aiguille du Midi cable car.
Photo: the venue's Google Maps listing
The verdict
The Basecamp is Chamonix's go-to craft beer bar, with 20 beers on tap, house brews and guest beers. Its Google rating of 4.6 from nearly 800 reviews is the best of our bars.
The beer comes from the Big Mountain Brewing Company, whose production brewery is in Cluses, in the Arve valley.
On site
A south-facing terrace, a big beer garden, an on-site microbrewery and a shop selling beer to take away. The kitchen serves pizzas, burgers, salads and sharing plates.
The bar says it opens every day from noon to 11pm, with a happy hour from 4pm to 5:30pm.
Our advice
Arrive before the lifts close to get a seat in the sun: returning skiers fill the terrace within half an hour. The Aiguille du Midi cable car is a few minutes away, ideal after the descent.
Read on: Après-ski and bars in Chamonix and Where to eat in Chamonix.
Sources: the property's website, Chamonix Tourist Office, Google Maps (address, rating, reviews and photo, checked on 27 October 2026), gallery: photos posted by visitors in their Google reviews (barichello sylvain, Sofia Clavel, Alexandre Sutter, Albert Bastien, Y N, Elina Giovane). Walking times are estimates.
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Nathalie Perroud
Nathalie spent six years on the front desk of a hotel near Chamonix station, answering the same questions every day about shuttles, the Montenvers train and parking. She writes the pages she would have liked to hand to her guests. She checks every price with the operator, never in a guidebook.
