2025 World's 50 Best Bars: Complete List and Rankings

Handshake Speakeasy places Mexico City's cocktail scene in the global conversation through technical drinks, theatrical rooms, major awards momentum. Its 2024 World's 50 Best Bars No. 1 ranking, North America's 50 Best Bars No. 1 placements in 2024 and 2025, Tales Spirited Awards 2026 Top 10 Nominee status make it a serious reference point for modern agave-led barcraft.

The Connaught Bar has appeared in the World's 50 Best Bars rankings every year since 2010, reaching number one twice. Its David Collins-designed interior and technically precise cocktail programme, anchored by a signature tableside Dry Martini, set the standard by which other hotel bars in London and beyond are measured. Open Tuesday through Sunday in the heart of Mayfair.

A former textile warehouse in central Milan reimagined as a cocktail bar, bistro, fine-dining space, Moebius Milano ranked 38th at the World's 50 Best Bars in 2024 and 9th in the Top 500 Bars list in 2025. The drinks programme draws on culinary technique, the ground floor runs globally influenced small plates, the first-floor Moebius Sperimentale operates as a glass-enclosed Michelin-starred restaurant. It resists easy categorisation, which is precisely the point.

Line occupies a former art gallery in Athens' Kerameikos neighbourhood, where the team behind The Clumsies has built one of the world's most recognised bars around a circular economy model. In-house fruit wines, fermented beers, sourdough breads form the production backbone, with waste folded back into a cocktail list that ranked #6 in the World's 50 Best Bars in 2024.

Jigger & Pony sits in Singapore’s serious cocktail tier: a Tanjong Pagar bar with long-running Asia’s 50 Best Bars momentum, an editorial-style drinks programme built around annual “menuzines.” The draw is not speakeasy concealment; it is polished hotel-lobby confidence, classic cocktail grammar, a team comfortable turning technique into readable, social drinking.

Tres Monos sits at #7 on the World's 50 Best Bars list (2024), yet its Palermo address, graffiti-covered walls, neon-lit interior read closer to a neighbourhood dive than a global cocktail destination. The bar's depth comes from serious local sourcing, including own-label spirits produced with Argentine grains and herbs, a social training programme that puts community at the centre of its operation.

Ranked #8 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024, Alquímico occupies a 19th-century mansion in Cartagena's historic El Centro, operating across three floors with distinct atmospheres: a courtyard bar at street level, a more measured mid-floor, a full Reggaetón rooftop. Capacity reaches 1,200 people at peak, but the deeper story is the community infrastructure funded through every drink sold.

Superbueno on First Avenue in the East Village holds North America's #2 bar ranking from World's 50 Best (2025) and a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. The bar runs a technically driven Mexican-American drinks program alongside a food menu built around refined cantina classics, all delivered through a hospitality approach that has made it one of New York's most-visited bars.

Ranked No.16 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2024 and winner of the Michter's Art of Hospitality Award 2025, Lady Bee in Barranco, Lima, is a product-driven bar programme built around Peruvian biodiversity, from Amazonian fruits to high-altitude Andean distillates. The husband-and-wife team of Alonso Palomino and Gabriela León has doubled capacity at a new venue while keeping the focus on provenance, seasonality, the farming communities behind every ingredient.

Behind an unassuming wooden door on Storgata, Himkok operates across several floors and formats: a draft cocktail bar, a terrace pouring local ciders, a barbershop, a ground-floor distillery bar where house-made aquavit, gin, vodka go directly from still to glass. Ranked #6 in Top 500 Bars (2025) and #11 in World's 50 Best Bars (2024), it is one of Scandinavia's most consistently recognised cocktail programmes.

Bar Us Bangkok belongs to the city’s newer technical cocktail tier, where menu structure, back-bar intent, Thai flavour references matter more than speakeasy theatre. Recognition includes Asia’s 50 Best Bars No.4 in 2025, World’s 50 Best Bars No.41 in 2024, Top 500 Bars rank 30, multiple Tales Spirited Awards 2026 nominations.

Ranked #18 on Top 500 Bars and #39 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2024, Bar Nouveau brings the Art Nouveau movement to life across two floors at 5 Rue des Haudriettes in the Marais. A six-cocktail menu split between pre-industrial and modern techniques mirrors the bar's two-level design philosophy. No reservations are taken, so arriving at the 3pm opening is the practical strategy for securing a seat.

Bar Benfiddich belongs to Tokyo’s serious cocktail tier: a 17-seat Nishishinjuku room where farm botanicals, old bottles and historical technique shape the programme. Its repeated Asia’s Best Bars and World’s 50 Best Bars placements make it a reference point for drinkers comparing Tokyo’s precision-led bars with more improvisational, ingredient-driven counters.

Ranked #21 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024 and #47 in Top 500 Bars for 2025, Caretaker's Cottage occupies a converted 19th-century caretaker's residence on Little Lonsdale Street. The bar's reputation rests on two anchors: a freezer-cold signature martini made with custom-commissioned gin, what many consider Australia's definitive boilermaker pairing. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 4pm.

Founded in 2019, The Cambridge Public House in Paris's 3rd arrondissement sits at #14 in Top 500 Bars (2025) and #19 in World's 50 Best Bars (2024). It holds the world's first B Corp certification for a bar, runs a hybrid model: Guinness on tap, natural wines, precisely crafted cocktails, all within a deliberate Anglo-French framework on Rue de Poitou.

Twelve years into its run on Cambridge Heath Road, Satan's Whiskers has settled into something East London rarely produces: a cocktail bar with no concept beyond the cocktails themselves. Ranked #22 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #29 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2024), it draws on a 900-strong list of classics and a live-to-order approach that keeps the drinks sharp and personal.

Inside a 13th-century palace once home to a Medici-era diplomat, Locale Firenze operates at the serious end of Italian bar culture. Ranked #15 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #36 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2024), the programme pairs modernist technique with low-waste discipline and a kitchen-bar dialogue that sets it apart from Florence's broader cocktail scene.

Ranked #3 among North America's Best Bars in 2025 and #20 globally the year prior, Tlecān on Avenida Álvaro Obregón is Roma Norte's most serious agave bar. Head bartender and co-owner Eli Martínez Bello sources bacanora, sotol, pox, raicilla, mezcal directly from craft producers across Mexico, building a programme that functions as both a bar menu and an education in indigenous distillation traditions.

Inside Bratislava's Radisson Blu Carlton Hotel, Mirror Bar has climbed from local curiosity to a fixture on the global bar circuit, ranking 46th in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and 62nd in the World's 50 Best Bars (2024). The programme, led by bar ambassadors Stanislav Harcinik and Peter Marcina, fuses classical cocktail structure with theatrical presentation and locally-made glassware, set inside a room designed around forest greens, botanical installations, a full-size handcrafted tree.

Ranked #22 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024, CoChinChina occupies a converted Palermo space where Franco-Vietnamese aesthetics meet Argentine cocktail craft. The menu moves between inventive mixed drinks and kitchen dishes rooted in the same dual cultural logic, across several distinct room formats — from pavement deckchairs to an upstairs dining room. confirms the consistency.

Ranked #39 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #86 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2023), Nouvelle Vague has placed Tirana on the global cocktail map through a programme built around native Albanian ingredients and local spirits, particularly raki. The current menu, Origin'al, draws on forgotten culinary traditions and collaborations with small producers across Albania, translating heritage into technically precise, story-driven serves.

Ranked #7 in Asia's Best Bars 2025 and making its World's 50 Best Bars debut that same year, Hope & Sesame has operated from Guangzhou's Dongshankou district since 2016. Entry is through a concealed refrigerator door; the programme inside runs on ultrasonic infusion, rotary distillation, seasonal menus built around regional flavour and cultural narrative.

Inside Galerie Vivienne, one of Paris's 19th-century glass-roofed arcades, Danico operates as a bar that has earned a #49 ranking on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024. Accessed through the Italian restaurant Daroco, it runs a rotating cocktail programme drawing on global ingredients and advanced technique. The Xplorer series, now complete after five country-themed menus, has been replaced by a France-focused special edition.

Behind a working tailor shop on a Miraflores side street, Sastrería Martinez delivers Lima's most theatrically committed speakeasy entrance before revealing a full-service cocktail bar stocked with ingredients from Peru's highlands and Amazon basin. Ranked 460th on the 2025 Top 500 Bars list, it represents the city's growing confidence in bartending as a serious craft, with a drinks program that pulls from biomes most bars never consider.

At the Four Seasons Dubai Jumeirah Beach, Mimi Kakushi draws its references from 1920s Osaka, pairing an era of Japanese cultural flourishing with a contemporary kitchen that applies global technique to quality-sourced ingredients. Ranked 37th at the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024, it sits at the sharper end of Dubai's Japanese dining tier, where atmosphere and culinary craft are expected to operate at the same level.

Ranked #17 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 and a three-time holder of the #1 Asia title, Coa occupies a lower-ground space on Shin Hing Street in Central with a forty-page agave spirits list and a cocktail programme that rotates a new drink every week. The food menu, developed with award-winning Mexican restaurant Chicano, grounds the experience in the culinary culture that produced the spirits on the shelf.

Sip & Guzzle puts New York City's cocktail conversation into a two-speed format: brighter, louder drinking upstairs and a slower Japanese-accented program below. Its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist nod for Best New Bar, No. 5 placement on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025, three 2026 Tales Spirited Awards Top 10 nominations make it one of the city's more closely watched bar openings.

Drink Kong has held a position on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2020, placing it in the top tier of Rome's bar scene and among Italy's most globally recognized cocktail programs. Set across multiple rooms in Celio, the bar runs nightly from 18:30 with a menu format that guides guests by sensation rather than category. A serious destination for those who treat cocktails as a discipline.

Maybe Sammy gives Sydney's cocktail scene a rare thing: grand-hotel polish without grand-hotel stiffness. Its theatre-led drinks programme, pink-jacketed service style, repeated World's 50 Best Bars recognition place it in the city's international cocktail bracket rather than the casual bar lane.

Bollani Milano 1930 is a Milan cocktail bar at Via Giuseppe Ripamonti 150, known for a hidden, speakeasy-style format and a food-leaning cocktail identity.

Perched on the upper floors of the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi, Virtù has accumulated a consistent run of World's 50 Best recognition, including Asia's Best Bars positions in 2023, 2024, 2025, alongside the 2024 Michter's Art of Hospitality Award. The bar pairs skyline views across eastern Tokyo with a drinks program that maps Japanese produce onto a French spirits framework, served by a multilingual team with evident warmth.

Overstory brings New York’s high-altitude bar format into serious cocktail territory, pairing a 64th-floor perch with a spirits-led program recognized by World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars, the Tales Spirited Awards. The draw is not only the skyline; it is the way agave, whiskey, clarified builds, local ingredients, a deep back-bar sensibility turn a view bar into a technical drinking room.

The Bar in Front of the Bar revolutionizes Athens' cocktail scene through its zero-waste philosophy and daily-changing menu, where award-winning mixologists craft innovative drinks using housemade ingredients like palo santo smoke and black garlic. This street-side luxury destination combines theatrical outdoor seating with a hidden jungle-themed speakeasy, creating an unforgettable dual experience.

Nutmeg & Clove has spent eleven years building one of Asia-Pacific's most recognised bar programs from an eight-table saloon on Purvis Street. Named in Asia's Best Bars Top 10 multiple times and ranked #24 in the 2025 edition, it turns Singapore's neighbourhood memory, kopitiam counters, mama shop shelves, itinerant ice cream carts, into formally structured cocktails that read as cultural argument as much as drink.

Angelita operates on two levels in every sense: a street-level wine bar off Gran Vía and a basement cocktail lounge that ranked #51 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2025. The combination of serious wine programming upstairs and technically precise cocktails below has made it one of Madrid's most referenced drinking addresses, drawing.

Licorería Limantour helped define Mexico City’s modern cocktail culture from its Roma Norte address, with recognition across World’s 50 Best Bars, North America’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars, Pearl Recommended Bar in 2025. Expect a high-volume room with serious technical control, Mexican-rooted drinks, a playful approach to back-bar nostalgia.

Bar Cham has climbed from #50 in Asia's Best Bars in 2020 to #6 in 2025, placing it among the most consistently recognised cocktail bars on the continent. Situated in the Jongno District neighbourhood of Bukchon, the bar frames Korean aesthetics through classically grounded technique. It opens Wednesday through Monday from 18:00 to 01:00.

Bar Mauro at Tabasco 149 in Roma Norte is one of Mexico City's most decorated cocktail bars, ranked #14 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 and #54 globally., it sits in a comparable set that has reshaped what serious drinking looks like in CDMX, combining precise technique with the neighbourhood's low-key, walkable character.

Bar Pompette gives Toronto's Little Italy a French-accented cocktail room with serious technical range beneath the café ease. Recognition from World's 50 Best Bars, North America's 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars and the 2026 Tales Spirited Awards places it in the city's higher cocktail tier, but the appeal is less trophy-case polish than sharp drinks, local-seasonal thinking and a room built for lingering.

Located on the ground floor of the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong in Central, Argo has placed on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2022, reaching as high as #34 globally and #3 in Asia. Named to Tatler's Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025 list, it operates at the upper tier of Hong Kong's hotel bar circuit, where programme depth and regional recognition matter as much as the address.

Wax On sits on Weserstrasse in Neukölln, one of Berlin's most competitive bar corridors, has climbed to #57 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2025 after reaching #29 in 2023. The bar pairs a technical cocktail programme with a food offer calibrated to extend the session rather than just fill the gap between drinks.

Ranked #37 in Top 500 Bars and #58 in the World's 50 Best Bars for 2025, Freni e Frizioni has become one of Rome's most consistently recognised drinking destinations. Set in Trastevere, it draws a loyal nightly crowd from aperitivo hour through to the early morning. Its trajectory across three consecutive years in the 50 Best rankings signals a bar that has moved well past cult-local status.

Occupying Level 51 of the St. Regis on The Palm Jumeirah, SUSHISAMBA Dubai merges Japanese, Brazilian, Peruvian culinary traditions at height, with sweeping views across the Arabian Gulf. Recognised by Star Wine List as a White Star venue in 2025, it sits within Dubai's high-altitude dining tier alongside a handful of restaurants that treat the view as context rather than the main event.

Ranked #61 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2025 and #43 in the Top 500 Bars, Exímia has placed Itaim Bibi firmly on the global cocktail map. The bar operates at a tier where ingredient sourcing and technical precision define the programme, positioning it alongside São Paulo's most credentialed drinking addresses. Book well ahead.

L'Antiquario operates from the Chiaia district of Naples, serving as one of Italy's most decorated cocktail bars with a World's 50 Best Bars ranking of #63 in 2025 and. Open daily from 18:00 to 03:00, the bar occupies a space that blurs antique-cabinet atmosphere with serious drink-making credentials, positioning it at the upper tier of Southern Italy's bar scene.

Ranked #65 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2025 and a fixture on the Asia's Best Bars list since 2019, The SG Club in Shibuya operates across two distinct floors with a program rooted in Japanese ingredient logic and international technique. Located in Jinnan, a quieter pocket above the Shibuya crossing noise, it draws a consistent crowd of serious drinkers and has held a place in the global top 25 as recently as 2021.

Bird sits on Frederiksberg's Gl. It occupies a tier of Copenhagen bars that competes internationally rather than locally, placing it alongside the city's most credentialed drinking rooms. For visitors tracking the Danish cocktail scene's rise on the global stage, it is a reference point.

Ranked #14 in Asia's Best Bars 2025 and #67 globally by World's 50 Best, Smoke & Bitters operates from an unlikely address on Sri Lanka's south coast, turning Hiriketiya's surf-village setting into one of the region's most credentialed cocktail programs. confirms the bar's hold on visitors who rarely expect to find this level of craft this far from a major city.

Hero Bar sits on the ninth floor of Trademark Hotel in Nairobi's Village Market district, holding a position inside the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2023, 2024, 2025. It represents the sharpest edge of East Africa's evolving cocktail scene, placing African-sourced ingredients and technical bartending within a rooftop setting that looks out over the Kenyan capital.

Gokan brings Japanese mixology to Central's Ice House Street with a program serious enough to earn placement at #33 in Asia's Best Bars 2025 and #70 globally in the World's 50 Best Bars rankings. Named Tatler's Best New Bar Hong Kong 2025, it occupies a specific niche in Hong Kong's bar scene where Japanese sensory philosophy and technical precision meet one of Asia's most competitive cocktail markets.

El Gallo Altanero has ranked on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2022, reaching #48 globally in 2024 and placing eighth in North America in 2025. Located in Guadalajara's Colonia Americana, it represents the leading edge of Mexico's agave-driven cocktail movement and draws serious bar travellers well beyond the city's own circuit.

Attaboy NYC is a New York City cocktail bar with no printed menu, a bespoke drinking format, a long awards trail that runs through World's 50 Best Bars and Top 500 Bars. Its lineage from the former Milk & Honey space gives it rare historical weight, while the 2025 expansion changed access without abandoning the bar's tightly controlled style.

Ranked #73 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2025 and sitting on Kingsland Road in the heart of east London's Dalston-to-Haggerston corridor, A Bar with Shapes For a Name has carved a distinct position in the city's cocktail conversation. Its trajectory through the global rankings since 2023 points to a program that rewards repeat attention. Bookings fill quickly; plan several weeks ahead.

Ranked #20 in Asia and #74 globally by World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Vender has become the reference point for serious cocktail craft in Taichung. Located in the West District, it has climbed steadily through Asia's rankings over three consecutive years, placing Taiwan's second city firmly on the international bar circuit. For anyone tracing the arc of Taiwan's cocktail scene beyond Taipei, this is a necessary stop.

Ranked #15 in North America and #75 globally by the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Martiny's on East 17th Street has established itself as one of New York City's most consistently decorated bar programs. Its trajectory, from #68 globally in 2023 to #24 in 2024, signals a bar operating with real upward momentum in a competitive Manhattan field.

Ranked #20 in North America and #78 globally by World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, Baltra Bar in Condesa has built a consistent presence at the top of Mexico City's cocktail scene over five consecutive years of recognition. Positioned on a quiet residential street in one of the city's most walkable neighbourhoods, it draws a crowd that takes its drinking seriously without the theatrics that define some of its peers.

Kwant occupies a Mayfair address dressed in hand-painted Polynesian tapa art and retro furnishings, built around a serious collection of vintage spirits and seasonal cocktails. It has held a place in the World's 50 Best Bars since 2019, peaking at number six globally in 2020. For London's vintage spirits tier, it remains one of the most credentialed addresses in the city.

Three Sheets on Kingsland Road has appeared in the World's 50 Best Bars list six consecutive times, peaking at #16 in 2019. Located in Dalston, east London, the bar operates in the focused, technically precise tier of London cocktail culture. Booking ahead is advisable, particularly on weekends.

Ranked #81 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2025, Mamba Negra occupies El Poblado's after-dark circuit as one of Colombia's most-awarded drinking destinations. Its back bar draws serious spirits enthusiasts, its placement in the global top 100 puts it in a comparable set that reaches well beyond Medellín. Located on Calle 2 in El Poblado, it operates at the intersection of Latin American cocktail ambition and curatorial depth.

Café La Trova puts Miami’s Cuban cocktail tradition at the center of the room, with cantinero technique, live Son Cubano, a bar program tied to Julio Cabrera’s long public role in rum culture. Its awards record, including a 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist nod for Outstanding Bar and repeated World’s 50 Best Bars recognition, places it in Miami’s serious cocktail conversation rather than the city’s generic nightlife lane.

Native sits in Singapore’s serious cocktail tier, with repeat appearances on World’s 50 Best Bars, Asia’s 50 Best Bars, Top 500 Bars. Its value is not spectacle; it is a drink programme that helped make regional ingredients, technical prep, local reference points part of the city’s premium bar conversation.

One of Barcelona's most enduring cocktail addresses, Boadas occupies a triangular corner at the foot of Carrer dels Tallers with the quiet confidence of a bar that has never needed to announce itself. Ranked #85 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2025 and holding, it draws a mixed crowd of locals and informed visitors who understand that brevity and precision are the house style.

On Staunton Street in Soho, The Savory Project has built one of Hong Kong's most award-laden bar programs around umami-forward cocktails that treat savoury flavour as a serious architectural principle. Named to the World's 50 Best Bars at #86 globally and #32 across Asia in 2025, a Tatler Best 20 Bars Hong Kong selection, it holds a service award that signals floor discipline matching its technical ambition.

Ranked #87 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2025, Victor Audio Bar in Buenos Aires operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and a genuine neighbourhood sensibility. Located on Soler 5130 in Palermo, it draws a loyal crowd that returns not for spectacle but for the quality of what's in the glass and the consistency of the room. Among Buenos Aires bars with international recognition, it occupies a distinct position.

Named Tatler Asia's Best New Bar for 2025 and ranked fifth in Asia's 50 Best Bars the same year, Dry Wave Cocktail Studio operates from the second floor of SODALITY on Thonglor Soi 13, positioning nature as its primary creative framework. Under bar lead Palm Suphawit Muttaratan, the studio has moved quickly from newcomer to one of Bangkok's most closely watched bar programs, drawing attention across the Asia-Pacific circuit within its first year of recognition.

Florería Atlantico is Buenos Aires drinking culture at its internationally recognised end: a cocktail bar whose programme draws on migration, Indigenous influence, Argentina’s Atlantic-facing history. Its long run on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, including #46 in 2024 and #90 in 2025, makes it a reference point for visitors comparing the city’s serious cocktail rooms.

Byrdi occupies a ground-floor tenancy on La Trobe Street with a drinks programme built around Australian native ingredients and a track record that puts it among the world's most recognised bars. Ranked #35 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024, For Melbourne's bar scene, it represents the cleaner, more produce-led end of the spectrum.

Opium occupies a century-old shophouse in Samphanthawong, Bangkok's former opium-smoking district, has built one of the city's most critically recognised bar programs from that charged address. Named to Asia's 50 Best Bars at number 43 and the World's 50 Best Bars at number 92 in 2025, it draws serious cocktail drinkers who value historical weight alongside what's in the glass.

Mírate puts Los Angeles agave culture in a sharper, more ambitious frame: pre-Hispanic ferments, producer-led spirits, technique-heavy cocktails rather than generic tequila-bar shorthand. Its 2026 Tales Spirited Awards Top 10 nominations, World’s 50 Best Bars placements, Top 500 Bars ranking make the case for a bar program operating inside the city’s serious cocktail conversation.

Bar Trench in Ebisu has held a place on Asia's 50 Best Bars list continuously since 2016, reaching as high as #16 in 2018 and appearing on the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025. The bar draws a devoted following for its spirits-forward approach and the depth of its back bar. reflects consistent execution over a long run.

<strong>Employees Only NYC</strong> remains a defining West <strong>Village cocktail</strong> room because it treats classic drinking as theatre without letting the room swallow the drinks. Its long run on the World's <strong>50 Best Bars</strong> list, including #95 globally and #18 in <strong>North America</strong> for 2025, places it in a rare category: a 2004-era <strong>New York</strong> bar that continues to compete with younger technical programs.

Lair has become one of the most closely watched bars in Asia, ranking #8 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 and #96 globally. Operating from Vasant Vihar's Basant Lok market, it represents New Delhi's shift toward technically precise, narrative-driven cocktail culture. across more than a thousand reviews signals consistent execution rather than a single viral moment.

One of Rome's most awarded cocktail bars, Jerry Thomas Speakeasy has held a place in the World's 50 Best Bars since 2013, peaking at number 19 before settling into a consistent presence in global rankings. Its speakeasy format, tucked into a narrow alley off Campo de' Fiori, represents the pre-theatrical era of the genre before the city's bar scene moved toward more transparent technical programs. confirms enduring local and visitor appeal.

Positioned on Piazza della Signoria, Gucci Giardino sits at the intersection of Florentine heritage and contemporary cocktail craft. Ranked #31 in the Top 500 Bars (2025) and #99 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2025), the bar operates at the upper tier of Italy's competitive cocktail scene, where sourcing discipline and formal technique carry as much weight as the address.

Bar Carmen holds a confirmed place on the World's 50 Best Bars list for 2025, positioning it among a small tier of Colombian bars with sustained international recognition. Located on Carrera 36 in El Poblado, it operates in Medellín's most concentrated nightlife corridor and draws a crowd that ranges from local regulars to visiting bar professionals. For anyone tracking Latin America's cocktail scene, it is a reference point worth understanding.