The 15th edition of The World’s 10 Best Bars has been announced with Spain topping the list while the UK, Italy and Greece also making the list.
The 2023 edition highlights bars from various urban areas all over the world, with Barcelona’s Sips arising the best in Europe. Double Chicken Please in New York came in second, and Handshake Speakeasy from Mexico City is third on the list.
Over the years, London and New York have been ruling the list since 2009, yet Barcelona bars have climbed the rankings over the most recent two years. This is the second year straight that a Barcelona bar has guaranteed the crown, as Sips jumped to the top from No. 3 last year.
Last year’s top-ranking joint, Paradiso, is also located in the Catalan capital, came fourth place. North and South America accounted for 14 slots; Asia came up ten times, while Australia and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, had two spots each.
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The top ten bars were all located in Europe and North and South America as it were.
This year’s list compiled votes from 680 industry experts across the globe, including bartenders and bar owners, plus “drinks writers” and “well-travelled cocktail experts,” according to the 50 Best website.
Here are the Top 10 Bars 2023:
- Sips, Barcelona
“When two of the industry’s most creative minds come together, expect what we call Amazing. That’s exactly what has happened after Simone Caporale and Marc Alvarez established Sips in 2021.
In Just two years of its existence, Sips has been named as The World’s Best Bar as well as the Best in Europe for 2023, which is sponsored by Perrier. Within the drinkery, it’s all about fine cocktails, such as the Primordial – a blend of 12-year-old Scotch, Ruby Port and peranashi – which is served to visitors in a metal cast of two hands.
- Double Chicken Please, New York
- Handshake Speakeasy, Mexico City
- Paradiso, Barcelona
- Connaught Bar, London
- Little Red Door, Paris
- Licorería Limantour, Mexico City
- Tayēr + Elementary, London
- Alquímico, Cartagena
- Himkok, Oslo