• The World’s 50 Best Bars

    From secretive speakeasies that require walking through phone booths, wardrobes and hidden, unmarked doors, editors and bar professionals around the world selected their picks for the best bars around the world.

    While New York and London dominate the top 10 list, watering holes from 16 countries are represented along the way, including bars from France, Spain, Denmark, Spain, Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.

    About 100 of the world’s top bar professionals contributed to the list, including the Playboy Club’s Salvatore Calabrese, King Cocktail Dale DeGroff, Esquire’s David Wondrich in the US and diamond ice-carver Hidetsugu Ueno.
    Source: AFPrelaxnews

    Here are the top 50 bars in the world, according to a panel of 100 bar professionals and Drinks International.
    1. PDT, New York
    2. Connaught, London
    3. Artesian, London
    4. Death & Co, New York
    5. Milk & Honey, London
    6. American Bar at the Savoy, London
    7. 69 Colebrooke Row, London
    8. Drink, Boston US
    9. Harry’s New York Bar, Paris
    10. Black Pearl, Melbourne, Australia
    11. Pegu Club, NY
    12. Dry Martini Bar, Barcelona
    13. Eau De Vie, Sydney
    14. Bramble, Edinburgh
    15. Employees Only, New York
    16. La Capilla Bar, Mexico
    17. Merchant Hotel, Belfast
    18. Nightjar, London
    19. Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco
    20. Buddha Bar, Paris
    21. Skyview Bar, Dubai
    22. The Varnish, Los Angeles
    23. Tippling Club, Singapore
    24. Milk & Honey, New York
    25. 878 Bar, Buenos Aires
    26. Der Raum, Melbourne
    27. Callooh Callay, London
    28. Clover Club, New York
    29. Door74, Amsterdam
    30. Tommy’s, San Francisco
    31. Floridita, Havana
    32. City Space, Moscow
    33. Matterhorn, Wellington, NZ
    34. High Five Bar, Tokyo
    35. Le Lion, Hamburg
    36. LAB, London
    37. Boadas, Barcelona
    38. Dutch Kills, New York
    39. Worship St Whistling Shop, London
    40. BarAgricole, San Francisco
    41. Papa Doble, Montpellier
    42. Quo Vadis, London
    43. Lounge Bohemia, London
    44. Mayahuel, New York
    45. Mutis, Barcelona
    46. Ruby, Copenhagen
    47. Rules, London
    48. Hemingway Bar, Paris
    49. Zuma, Dubai
    50. Star Bar, Tokyo

     

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