The barsforKings Awards
An annual reckoning. The 2025 barsforKings Awards recognise the bars, bartenders, drinks and rooms that earned the editorial team's votes across 72 cities of regular reporting. Six categories. One winner each. Three finalists.
Winners
The single bar our editors voted as 2025's best room, anywhere.
View → 2025 · AnnualThe bartender behind 2025's most-discussed list of cocktails.
View → 2025 · AnnualThe single drink our editors keep coming back to in 2025.
View → 2025 · AnnualThe room everyone had written off — and the team who quietly fixed it.
View → 2025 · AnnualThe 2025 opening that mattered.
View → 2025 · AnnualThe bars in our index that have earned a permanent place in the canon.
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