On October 17, 2023, The World’s 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, revealed its annual list in Singapore, celebrating global excellence in the cocktail industry. Barcelona's Sips, founded by Simone Caporale and Marc Álvarez, secured the prestigious titles of The Best Bar in Europe and The World’s Best Bar. Sips' innovative mixology approach offers high-end cocktails at affordable prices, presented in a futuristic, immersive setting. London dominated the list with five bars, including Connaught Bar and Tayēr + Elementary in the top 10, highlighting Europe's strong presence in the industry.

Sips awarded as The World’s Best Bar

Located in the heart of Barcelona’s L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample district, Sips combines elegant design with cutting-edge technique to create an unfussy and playful ‘drinkery house’ from two titans of the industry, Simone Caporale and Marc Álvarez. Drawing on the lessons of their already illustrious careers – Caporale was one half of the creative duo that led London’s Artesian to The World’s Best Bar title a record four times, whilst Álvarez spent almost a decade at Ferran and Albert Adrià’s revolutionary elBarri restaurant group – the duo’s disruptive approach to creative mixology shines through in innovative haute couture serves at pret-a-porter prices.

The bar’s atmospheric interior encompasses muted pastel and gold-accented seating orbiting a futuristic workstation in place of the traditional bar. This design removes any barrier between guest and bartender, with the aim of centring the human aspect of service to create a multi-sensory, immersive drinking experience.

The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023

The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023 features establishments from 28 cities, with Barcelona’s Sips crowned The Best Bar in Europe and The World’s Best Bar, sponsored by Perrier. This is the second time a bar from Barcelona has taken the top spot in as many years, following Paradiso’s triumph in 2022. The first 10 best bars in the world include Sips from Barcelona, Double Chicken Please from New York, Handshake Speakeasy from Mexico City, Paradiso from Barcelona, Connaught Bar from London, Little Red Door from Paris, Licorería Limantour from Mexico City, Tayēr + Elementary from London, Alquímico from Cartagena and Himkok from Oslo led by Maroš Dzurus (Slovakia).

Europe is again leading the industry with over 22 bars, which made it into the top 50 list.

London retains its place as one of the world’s cocktail capitals with five bars on the list, more than any other city, including two in the top 10: Connaught Bar, rising three places to No.5, and Tayēr + Elementary at No.8. They are joined by East London neighbors Satan’s Whiskers at No.28 and A Bar with Shapes for a Name at No.35, with Scarfes Bar led by Martin Siska (Slovakia) coming in at No.41. Edinburgh’s Panda & Sons also returns to the list at No.39.

The World’s 50 Best Bars Special Awards

Campari One To Watch - an honour bestowed on a bar outside of the 1-50 ranking that the 50 Best team believes has what it takes to make future editions of the list - Lady Bee, Lima

Bareksten Best Bar Design Award - Night Hawk, Singapore

Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu Award - The American Bar at Gleneagles, Auchrachter

Roku Industry Icon - Renato 'Tato' Giovannoni

Disaronno Highest New Entry - Zest, Seoul

London Essence Best New Opening - Line, Athens

Nikka Highest Climber Award - Himkok, Oslo

Rémy Martin Legend of the List - The Clumsies, Athens

Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award - Röda Guset, Stockholm

Other special award winners, announced in the run-up to the event on 17 October, include Tres Monos, Buenos Aires, named the winner of the Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award, and GN Chan, winner of the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award.

The 50 Best Bars The Blend Scholarship winner is Apoorva Kohli of New Delhi’s acclaimed Sidecar.

The Voting Process

The list is compiled by votes from The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy, which comprises 680 drinks experts with 50/50 gender parity, including renowned bartenders and consultants, drinks writers and cocktail specialists from around the world. The Academy of voters is spread across 28 global geographic regions, each headed by an Academy Chair who selects their region’s voters, with the distribution of voters designed to reflect the relative development and sophistication of the drinks sector, and the concentration of quality bars, in each region. Each voter casts seven votes based on their best bar experiences of the previous 18 months, although if they have been unable to travel, they are welcome to provide five votes from their home country or SAR. Voters are required to remain anonymous and voting is confidential, secure and independently adjudicated by Deloitte.

About The World’s 50 Best Bars

The World’s 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, provides a definitive list of the world’s best drinking venues, voted for by an Academy of 680 experts worldwide. The World’s 50 Best Bars list has been published annually since 2009 and has become the most anticipated ranking for drinks professionals and cocktail aficionados across the world, with the awards the highlight of the bar industry calendar.The list of Asia’s 50 Best Bars has been published since 2016, while the list of North America’s 50 Best Bars was launched in 2022. William Reed, which owns the 50 Best brand, is entirely responsible for the organisation of the awards, the voting system and the respective lists.

The annual list of The World’s 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, was unveiled as part of a live awards ceremony in Singapore on Tuesday, 17 October 2023. Held in Asia for the first time in its history, the ceremony once again celebrated the excellence of the international drinks sector, paying tribute to the visionary bartenders, enterprising bar owners, and trailblazing brands that lead the charge in shaping cocktail culture around the world.

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The World’s 50 Best Bars list 51-100
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