Taken from http://worlds50bestbars.com - Judged by nearly 500 industry insiders with a global outlook, by far my favourite ranking table. This list includes the 50 runners up. Happy imbibing!
Ross WS: A paragon of bartending skill, Star Bar is to many the best bar in Tokyo. Come here for the figure-of-eight Infinity Shake and ice cut like sculptures.
210 Smith St (btwn Baltic & Butler St), Brooklyn, NY
Kokteyl Barı · Boerum Hill · 369 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Brooklyn’s neo-classic has made the top 50 bars five times – alas a casualty of 2015. Cocktails have historical leanings and hospitality led by Julie Reiner is traditional and warm.
3174 16th St (btwn Guerrero & Albion St), San Francisco, CA
Kokteyl Barı · Mission Dolores · 148 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: A laid-back, hair-down, neighbourhood bar that gives equal billing to its food and drinks. The cocktail menu is scaled back, pushing spirits to the fore.
Arroyo 872 (esq. Suipacha), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Speakeasy · Retiro · 322 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Themed on the immigrant drinking dens that sprung up in Buenos Aires during the 19th-century, Floreria is consistently the top-ranked bar from Buenos Aries.
Kokteyl Barı · Staré Město · 523 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: A traditional leather-and-wood cocktail den, befitting of the great man. Attention is spared for absinthe, champagne and, of course, Hemingway’s favourite tipple, rum.
Ross WS: The shock of the 2015 Top 50 list is that previously ever-present Bramble is not on it. It remains a pillar of the bar community and nursery to so many of the world’s great bartenders.
Ross WS: A basement cocktail bar in Singapore’s Chinatown, Operation Dagger serves a stripped back menu in a scantly clad Scandi-esque space, lit by a nebula of bulbs.
Kokteyl Barı · Financial District · 77 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: This modern speakeasy is named in reference to old recipes that called for jiggers and ponies. True to its name it delivers immaculate renditions of 19th-century favourites.
Ross WS: Speak Low is run by Japanese bartender Shingo Gokan and is one of a tsunami of new Shanghai bars. Prohibition-era bar culture has touched down in China, but this speakeasy does it best.
Speakeasy · La Dreta de l'Eixample · 28 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Not only a residential bar but seemingly a resident’s living room bar. This homey lounge has a speakeasy base but is modified with some distinctly European flavour.
Speakeasy · East Village · 394 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: At the vanguard of the classic cocktail revival, David Kaplan and Ravi DeRossi created Death & Co in 2007. Ranked fourth in the 2011 World's Best 50 bars list, this is an industry classic.
1-я Тверская-Ямская ул., 29, стр. 1, Moskova, Moskova
Kokteyl Barı · Пресненский · 109 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Roman Milostivy’s tea shop come speakeasy tucked into a cranny of Moscow’s Chinatown was a World's 50 Best Bars member from 2012-2014. It remains one of Moscow’s best craft bars.
Ross WS: The swill-house sister of top 50 bar Baxter Inn, Shady Pines is a sort of Australian Wild West saloon affair, with monkey nuts, beer, taxidermy and raucousness never in short supply.
Ross WS: This bar-lounge has the kind of warmth that makes you feel at home. Drinks are less domesticated with creations presented with an eye to the extraordinary.
Ross WS: This flotsam-strewn wooden hut-bar is a nod to Don the Beachcomber and an oasis of Chicago. It comes from none other than the mind of tiki demigod Paul McGee.
Kokteyl Barı · Hôtel-de-Ville · 75 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: First up, Sherry Butt is a homage to whisky, not sherry. With cocktails created by ECC alumni and more than 100 whisky choices, this is one of Paris’s best bars.
Kokteyl Barı · Saint-Georges · 35 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: A tiki joint in a former girlie bar, Dirty Dick has tropical décor and a bounty of rum that makes ordering anything else virtual heresy. This is Polynesia in Paris.
51 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, Paris, Île-de-France
Kokteyl Barı · Porte Saint-Denis · 63 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Sullivan Doh and Romain Le Mouellic take French spirits lost to time, dust them down, funk them up and serve in an ultra-modern speakeasy setting.
Ross WS: Named after a tram line, Linje Tio at Tjoget is a restaurant bar (as is the way in Sweden) that balances rustic and urban in a southern European setting. They’re into their ice.
Ross WS: A Mayfair museum of the great fictional Jules Verne explorer Phileas Fogg, it would take 80 days to circumnavigate this bar’s world of paraphernalia, let alone the menu.
Ross WS: Enter through the sliding bookshelf to find Sean Kenyon and Todd Colehour’s classic speakeasy – a 20th-century grotto thrumming with Mississippi blues.
Kokteyl Barı · Bethnal Green North · 70 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: A London bar that sells drinks as banging as its hip-hop soundtrack, Satan’s Whiskers is a neighbourhood favourite of the sprawling hipster-ville that now includes Bethnal Green.
Ross WS: Perched above Michelin-starred chef Jason Atherton’s Social Eating House in London, this dark and brooding neo-classic speakeasy whirrs with Soho atmosphere.
Kokteyl Barı · Μοναστηράκι · 442 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Athens legend Thanos Prounarous’s ode to rum exudes fun and tropical frolics. Friendly and unpretentious, it is a must-see of the Athens bar scene.
Ross WS: An orange-clad cocktail den that flirts with 60s style and has more than a penchant for rum. Joseph Akhavan’s Mabel is another sugarcane apostle’s promised land in Paris.
Ross WS: Its city’s first bar devoted to classic cocktails, Anvil boasts a 100-strong menu. In-house creations and beer taps are also available in this modern-industrial Houston haunt.
27-24 Jackson Ave (btwn Queens & Dutch Kills St), Long Island City, NY
Kokteyl Barı · 259 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Dark, wooden rectangular panels enclose one of NYC’s favourite spots for serious drinking. With a tilt to brown spirits and classics, this bar has twice been among the top 50.
Ross WS: Three and four-piece cocktails made without pomp or pretention in an easy-drinking environment – California’s Prizefighter is about doing things simply and well.
135 Keefer St (btwn Columbia & Main), Vancouver, BC
Kokteyl Barı · Downtown Vancouver · 60 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: An apothecary theme takes in tinctures, bitters, syrups and teas within this dark, long, narrow, bar. Cocktails and dim sum in China Town. This bar, to say the least, is eclectic.
Peru Restoranı · San Isidro · 201 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Astrid & Gaston was placed 14th in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Its bar – all black boards, marble and smiling faces – is what greets you. Our voters are fans.
Ross WS: Like the cluttered retiring quarters of an eccentric British lord, Zetter Townhouse matches Tony Conigliaro’s cocktails with supper bowls in London’s old distilling centre.
177 Portobello Rd (Basement), Londra, Greater London
Kokteyl Barı · Kensington and Chelsea · 48 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Sitting in London’s Portobello Road, this kitsch haven of tiki is the best place to wear flowery shirts and drink fruity cocktails in London. If rum is your thing, likely you’ve already been.
Ross WS: With more than a frisson of hipster in the air, Bar Agricole explores this lesser-known rum style with a swagger. Other delectable cocktails are served, as is small-plate, big-ticket food.
Ross WS: A cosy speakeasy in Ghent got our Academy’s vote as the best bar in Belgium. Cocktails have an eye for localism, with syrups homemade and ingredients seasonal.
Speakeasy · Sydney City Center · 57 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: An Aussie expedition across Latin America, Lobo Plantation leaves few rum destinations unchartered. Rum flights and cocktails make for all but a rum do.
Kokteyl Barı · Union Square · 245 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: New to NYC is Dear Irving, a cocktail parlour cut into quarters inspired by eras and people. Caps and drinks are doffed to Marie Antoinette, Abraham Lincoln, The Great Gatsby and JFK.
Kokteyl Barı · Shibuya, Tokyo, Tōkyō · 49 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: With a penchant for all things herbal, Trench has been providing a medicinal, if boozy, retreat for Tokyo’s drinking upper classes since 2010.
Ross WS: A bamboo shack in the high-rise of Hong Kong, Max Traverse’s homage to tiki has about the largest rum stash in Asia. Go here for fun cocktails but serious drinks.
Tapas Restoranı · Little Italy · 71 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: A chorizo slice of warm, welcoming Spain in Canada, this curvaceous, Gaudi-styled tapas bar feeds the eye and the stomach. Sherry is abundant.
Kokteyl Barı · Saint-Georges · 56 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: Sister to Candelaria and Le Mary Celeste, the yellow glow of Glass is honey to Paris’s bartending fraternity. No wonder, here there are boilermakers, hotdogs and mezcal.
1 rue Commines (Rue Froissart), Paris, Île-de-France
Kokteyl Barı · Enfants-Rouges · 169 tavsiye ve inceleme
Ross WS: One of three in the World's Top 100 Bars from Josh Fontaine, Adam Tsuou and Carina Soto Velasquez. This bright and cheerful bar offers daily-changing food and signature cocktails.