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The World's Top 50 Bars

The 50 rooms our editors rate highest worldwide, covering the current World's 50 Best winners we publish in depth plus the classics that built modern bartending. Ordered by verified Google guest rating, ties broken by review volume. Every venue confirmed operating in June 2026.

First published Dec 22, 2025 · Last updated June 11, 2026 · All 50 venues verified open, June 2026

  1. 01

    BKK Social Club

    Cocktail Bar · Bangkok

    ★ 4.8

    Pathum Wan · ★ 4.8 (996 ratings) · Buenos Aires glamour inside the Four Seasons

  2. 02

    Zest

    Cocktail Bar · Seoul

    ★ 4.8

    Cheongdam · ★ 4.8 (508 ratings) · Korean produce and a strict zero waste program

  3. 03

    Satan's Whiskers

    Cocktail Bar · London

    ★ 4.7

    Bethnal Green · $$ · ★ 4.7 (1,184 ratings) · Taxidermy, hip hop, and a menu that changes daily

  4. 04

    Bar Trench

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.7

    Ebisu · $$$ · ★ 4.7 (889 ratings) · Absinthe and herbal liqueurs from a tiny corner room

  5. 05

    Caretaker's Cottage

    Cocktail Bar · Melbourne

    ★ 4.7

    CBD · $$ · ★ 4.7 (851 ratings) · Guinness and martinis in a real Victorian cottage

  6. 06

    Bar Nouveau

    Cocktail Bar · Paris

    ★ 4.7

    Bastille · ★ 4.7 (636 ratings) · Art Nouveau room where the classics get rebuilt

  7. 07

    Lady Bee

    Cocktail Bar · Lima

    ★ 4.7

    ★ 4.7 (407 ratings) · Cocktails built on Peruvian produce and native botany

  8. 08

    Salmon Guru

    Cocktail Bar · Madrid

    ★ 4.6

    Las Letras · $$ · ★ 4.6 (4,833 ratings) · Comic book neon and the famous Chipotle Chillon

  9. 09

    Baba au Rum

    Cocktail Bar · Athens

    ★ 4.6

    Centre · $$ · ★ 4.6 (4,739 ratings) · Greece's defining rum bar since 2009

  10. 10

    Himkok

    Cocktail Bar · Oslo

    ★ 4.6

    Sentrum · $$$ · ★ 4.6 (3,207 ratings) · Distills its own aquavit, gin and vodka in house

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    Bellboy

    Cocktail Bar · Tel Aviv

    ★ 4.6

    City Center · $$$ · ★ 4.6 (3,122 ratings) · Theatrical serves inside the Hotel B Berdichevsky

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    Panda & Sons

    Hidden Gem · Edinburgh

    ★ 4.6

    New Town · $$ · ★ 4.6 (2,570 ratings) · Barbershop front, serious whisky drinks behind

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    Tlecan

    Cocktail Bar · Mexico City

    ★ 4.6

    Juarez · ★ 4.6 (2,116 ratings) · A serious mezcaleria with ceremonial calm

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    Jigger & Pony

    Cocktail Bar · Singapore

    ★ 4.6

    Tanjong Pagar · $$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,777 ratings) · Magazine style menu at the Amara Hotel

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    Scarfes Bar

    Cocktail Bar · London

    ★ 4.6

    Holborn · $$$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,525 ratings) · Live jazz nightly under Gerald Scarfe's artwork

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    The Connaught Bar

    Cocktail Bar · London

    ★ 4.6

    Mayfair · $$$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,260 ratings) · The martini trolley still arrives at your table

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    The Bamboo Bar

    Live Music · Bangkok

    ★ 4.6

    Bang Rak · $$$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,190 ratings) · Jazz at the Mandarin Oriental since 1953

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    Danico

    Cocktail Bar · Paris

    ★ 4.6

    Galerie Vivienne · $$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,149 ratings) · Nico de Soto's jewel box behind Daroco

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    American Bar at The Savoy

    Cocktail Bar · London

    ★ 4.6

    Strand · $$$$ · ★ 4.6 (1,083 ratings) · Britain's oldest surviving cocktail bar

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    Jewel of the South

    Cocktail Bar · New Orleans

    ★ 4.6

    French Quarter · $$$ · ★ 4.6 (836 ratings) · Creole cooking and classics in a 19th century cottage

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    Black Pearl

    Cocktail Bar · Melbourne

    ★ 4.6

    Fitzroy · $$ · ★ 4.6 (732 ratings) · More than two decades at the top of Fitzroy

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    COA

    Cocktail Bar · Hong Kong

    ★ 4.6

    Central · ★ 4.6 (711 ratings) · Agave obsessed, three times Asia's best bar

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    Nutmeg & Clove

    Cocktail Bar · Singapore

    ★ 4.6

    ★ 4.6 (614 ratings) · Singapore's history told through its drinks list

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    The Bellwood

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.6

    Shibuya · ★ 4.6 (589 ratings) · A Taisho era cafe reimagined as a modern bar

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    Atlas Bar

    Cocktail Bar · Singapore

    ★ 4.5

    Bugis · $$$ · ★ 4.5 (4,720 ratings) · An art deco gin tower of 1,300 plus bottles

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    Tan Tan

    Cocktail Bar · Sao Paulo

    ★ 4.5

    Pinheiros · $$ · ★ 4.5 (2,621 ratings) · Noodles up front, world class drinks alongside

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    Death & Co

    Cocktail Bar · New York

    ★ 4.5

    East Village · $$$ · ★ 4.5 (2,088 ratings) · The modern speakeasy movement's flagship room

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    Maybe Sammy

    Cocktail Bar · Sydney

    ★ 4.5

    The Rocks · ★ 4.5 (1,090 ratings) · Old Hollywood charm with Sydney polish

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    Mimi Kakushi

    Cocktail Bar · Dubai

    ★ 4.5

    Jumeirah · $$$$ · ★ 4.5 (1,042 ratings) · 1920s Osaka jazz age on the Dubai shoreline

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    Bar Hemingway at The Ritz

    Cocktail Bar · Paris

    ★ 4.5

    1er · $$$$ · ★ 4.5 (777 ratings) · Paper roses and the Serendipity at the Ritz

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    Sastreria Martinez

    Hidden Gem · Lima

    ★ 4.5

    $$$ · ★ 4.5 (443 ratings) · A bar hidden inside a working tailor's shop

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    Bar Gen Yamamoto

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.5

    Azabu Juban · $$$ · ★ 4.5 (358 ratings) · Seasonal omakase cocktails, eight seats, no menu

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    Paradiso

    Cocktail Bar · Barcelona

    ★ 4.3

    El Born · $$ · ★ 4.3 (7,362 ratings) · Enter through the pastrami shop's fridge door

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    Alquimico

    Cocktail Bar · Cartagena

    ★ 4.4

    Old City · $$ · ★ 4.4 (6,160 ratings) · Three floors fed by Colombian farm ingredients

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    Tres Monos

    Cocktail Bar · Buenos Aires

    ★ 4.4

    Palermo · $$ · ★ 4.4 (3,685 ratings) · Loud, generous and proudly porteno

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    Double Chicken Please

    Cocktail Bar · New York

    ★ 4.4

    Lower East Side · ★ 4.4 (2,341 ratings) · Cold Pizza and Japanese Cold Noodle, in a glass

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    Handshake Speakeasy

    Cocktail Bar · Mexico City

    ★ 4.4

    Juarez · $$$ · ★ 4.4 (2,019 ratings) · World's Best Bar 2024, exacting and clarified

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    Locale Firenze

    Cocktail Bar · Florence

    ★ 4.4

    Centro · $$$$ · ★ 4.4 (1,599 ratings) · A Renaissance palazzo with a lab in the cellar

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    Bar BenFiddich

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.4

    Shinjuku · $$$ · ★ 4.4 (930 ratings) · Hiroyasu Kayama grows his own botanicals

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    Tayer + Elementary

    Cocktail Bar · London

    ★ 4.4

    Old Street · ★ 4.4 (845 ratings) · Home of the One Sip Martini

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    Bar Leone

    Cocktail Bar · Hong Kong

    ★ 4.4

    SoHo · ★ 4.4 (728 ratings) · World's Best Bar 2025, cocktail popolari

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    CoChinChina

    Cocktail Bar · Buenos Aires

    ★ 4.3

    $$$ · ★ 4.3 (4,720 ratings) · Saigon meets Paris in Buenos Aires

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    Drink Kong

    Cocktail Bar · Rome

    ★ 4.3

    Monti · $$$ · ★ 4.3 (2,314 ratings) · Sci fi looks delivered with Italian precision

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    Star Bar Ginza

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.3

    Ginza · $$$ · ★ 4.3 (470 ratings) · Hisashi Kishi's exacting basement counter

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    Attaboy

    Cocktail Bar · New York

    ★ 4.2

    Lower East Side · $$$ · ★ 4.2 (1,970 ratings) · No menu, in Milk & Honey's old room

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    Bar High Five

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.2

    Ginza · ★ 4.2 (792 ratings) · Hidetsugu Ueno and his hand carved ice

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    Overstory

    Cocktail Bar · New York

    ★ 4.2

    Financial District · ★ 4.2 (752 ratings) · Cocktails 64 floors above the harbor

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    Tender Bar

    Cocktail Bar · Tokyo

    ★ 4.1

    Ginza · $$$ · ★ 4.1 (188 ratings) · Kazuo Uyeda, inventor of the hard shake

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    Sips

    Cocktail Bar · Barcelona

    ★ 4.0

    Eixample · $$$ · ★ 4.0 (1,737 ratings) · World's Best Bar 2023, the Drinkery House

  50. 50

    1930

    Hidden Gem · Milan

    Hidden

    Secret address · Milan's hidden room, ask at MAG Cafe

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