The World's Top 50 Bars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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