Barbarossa cocktail bar — Restaurant in Paros Municipality

I’ve Never Felt So Unsafe in a Bar — Paros, You Deserve Better What happened to us that night still shocks me.

We walked into this bar just looking for a good time. We found a spot to stand—nothing special, just space to breathe and enjoy ourselves. Then two women, clearly regulars or connected to the staff, showed up and demanded the spot. We explained there wasn’t enough space for everyone. That’s when things got ugly.

They left… but came back minutes later, and that’s when one of them violently shoved me. Out of instinct, I pushed back. And suddenly I was the villain. She started screaming, the doorman came and pushed ME, and then the woman threw a glass at our feet—we were wearing sandals. Glass. At our bare feet.

We were stunned. We left immediately. Shaken. Furious. Done.

I’ve been to bars all over the world and never—never—have I felt so disrespected, so unsafe, so completely unsupported by staff.

This place doesn’t deserve your time, your energy, or your money. Paros is beautiful—don’t let places like this ruin it for you.

⚠️ PS: The next day, we saw those same women working as hostesses at Barbarossa restaurant. Make of that...

I ordered a glass of Moët for myself and another beverage for my partner. I was seated close to the bar and could clearly see the waiter pour the Moët—but the bottle ran out halfway through the pour, leaving the glass only half full.

However, the drinks sat unattended for quite a while. I kept an eye on them, as the situation seemed a bit off.

Later, when the front of the bar got busier and more staff came to pick up orders, I saw the same waiter quietly flip the two glasses and top up what was supposed to be Moët with the cheaper drink I had ordered for my partner.

Essentially, he mixed the two.

I approached him immediately and told him I had seen what he did. He denied it and claimed it was someone else's order despite me watching the entire process from start to finish. So he was swapping someone else’s order then? No sense.

This is completely unacceptable, especially when paying a premium price for a well-known brand. Not only was it dishonest, but it also left a really bad impression of the service standards...

Barbarossa was recommended to us by many. However, when we came as a group of five women, the staff were extremely unwelcoming and rude. To enter the upstairs dance floor, you have to first wait in line for the dance floor only to be told you have to go to the bar across to purchase a drink for each person and then you could go back to the line to enter the dance floor area, without knowing if it was actually nice. To make matters worse, when we found a table at the downstairs area, we asked if there was a minimum charge and were told no. However, once we tried to order drinks, we were told we could only stay if everyone ordered an alcoholic beverage, even though people in our party could not drink alcohol for religious reasons. At that point, the hostess gave us a look as though she could not wait until we left. Don’t bother going to Barbarossa, there is no need to beg people to take your money and be treated like the dirt under...