Tales Spirited Awards 2026: Best International Bar Team – APAC Top 10 Honorees

Ranked #12 globally and #7 in Asia by World's 50 Best Bars in 2024, BKK Social Club operates from inside the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok on the Chao Phraya River. Soaring arches, a mirrored back bar, and an al fresco terrace set the physical tone, while a Mexico-inspired menu built around mezcal, tepache, and horchata riffs delivers the substance behind the spectacle. Named to Tatler Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025 and Top 500 Bars at #67, this is Bangkok's most consistently decorated destination bar.

Origin Bar sits in the lobby of Singapore on Orange Grove Road, placing it among the city's most credentialed hotel bars. Named to the World's 50 Best Asia's Best Bars list in both 2024 and 2025, and included in Tatler's Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025, the program balances technically considered cocktails with the kind of warm, unhurried hospitality that distinguishes the better luxury-hotel bar tier from standalone venues chasing awards alone.

Alice Cheongdam has appeared on Asia's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2016, reaching #11 in 2016 and #13 in 2025, making it one of the most consistently recognised cocktail bars in the region. Located in the basement of a Cheongdam-dong address, the bar draws on an Alice in Wonderland concept that shapes both its spatial design and its drinks program. Open until 2am on weekdays and 3am on weekends, it runs deep into Seoul's night.

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, and what many consider Australia's definitive boilermaker pairing. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 4pm.

Bar Us occupies a discreet first-floor space on Sukhumvit Soi 26, operating as a 'drinking room' where the menu follows a tasting structure — starters, mains, and afters, all built around liquid versions of Thai cuisine. Named in Tatler's Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025 with the Best Innovation award, and ranked No. 4 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025, it is one of Bangkok's most recognised bars by international trade standards.

<strong>Bar Leone</strong> brings <strong>Roman neighbourhood</strong>-bar culture into Central with a low-intervention cocktail programme, <strong>classic bartending</strong> discipline, and an unusually relaxed social register for a highly awarded Hong Kong address. Its 2024 and 2025 Asia’s <strong>Best Bars</strong> No. 1 rankings, plus World’s <strong>50 Best</strong> Bars No. 2 in 2024, put it in a rare peer set, but the appeal is less trophy-room polish than aperitivo energy, humour, and sharply edited drinks.

<strong>Jigger & Pony</strong> sits <strong>in Singapore</strong>’s serious <strong>cocktail</strong> tier: a <strong>Tanjong Pagar bar</strong> with long-running Asia’s 50 <strong>Best Bars</strong> momentum, a 4.7 Google rating from 1,578 reviews, and an editorial-style drinks programme built around annual “menuzines.” The draw is not speakeasy concealment; it is polished hotel-lobby confidence, classic cocktail grammar, and a team comfortable turning technique into readable, social drinking.

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.

The Old Clare occupies a converted 1920s brewery and hotel building on Kensington Street, positioning it at the centre of Chippendale's transformation from industrial backstreet to one of Sydney's most considered hospitality precincts. Its bar programme sits within a broader Australian movement away from imported templates toward locally grounded technique and produce. A reference address for anyone mapping serious drinking in inner Sydney.