McCool's Bar

About

The bar or nightlife venue McCool's Bar in Öland trades as a bar, the kind of spot built around drinks and evening socialising. It sits on Hamnvägen 15, 387 31 Borgholm, Sweden, in the island's main town.

Borgholm anchors the island, and Färjestaden, Mörbylånga, Köpingsvik, Byxelkrok, Löttorp and Södvik are the nearby places listed around Öland. Visitors rate the bar 4.3 out of 5 across 58 reviews, a steady score for a bar on the island. The venue's website at mccoolsbar.se is the reference point for the bar.

Scandinavian island food is built on fish — cod, herring and salmon — dried, salted or smoked, a tradition that shapes what a bar kitchen on Öland can draw on. White-tailed eagles, puffins, guillemots and otters live around Scandinavian islands and coastal waters.

Midsummer is marked with bonfires and maypoles on Scandinavian islands, and Lucia processions in December, so the bar's calendar sits inside a wider set of island celebrations. Viking Age trading sites and rune stones are found on Scandinavian islands, and Visby was a Hanseatic port, a reminder of how long these waters have carried trade.