Tales Spirited Awards 2026: Best International Bar Team – Europe (Top 10 Honorees)

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, and runs a hybrid model: Guinness on tap, natural wines, and precisely crafted cocktails, all within a deliberate Anglo-French framework on Rue de Poitou.

Foco sits in Gràcia's quieter residential streets yet ranks among the world's most-recognised bars, appearing at #89 in the World's 50 Best Bars list for 2025. The bar operates at the craft-focused end of Barcelona's cocktail scene, removed from the tourist circuits of the Gothic Quarter and El Born. For visitors tracking serious bar culture across Spain, it belongs in the same conversation as the city's other internationally awarded addresses.

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, and a full-size handcrafted tree.

Ranked #4 in the World's 50 Best Bars 2024 and a consistent presence in the global top ten since 2020, Tayēr + Elementary operates as two distinct drinking experiences under one roof on Old Street. The Elementary front bar runs draught cocktails and weekly-changing menus; Tayēr behind it shifts to a daily produce-driven format built around hyper-seasonal ingredients. Six years in, it remains the bar others are measured against.

Ranked #90 in the World's 50 Best Bars (2024) and #259 in the Top 500 Bars list (2025), Amaro occupies a serious position among London's recognised cocktail programmes. Located on Kensington High Street, it holds a 4.9 Google rating from 269 reviews — figures that place it alongside the most consistently praised bars in the city. A destination for those who take their drinking seriously.

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.

A former textile warehouse in central Milan reimagined as a cocktail bar, bistro, and 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, and the first-floor Moebius Sperimentale operates as a glass-enclosed Michelin-starred restaurant. It resists easy categorisation, which is precisely the point.

Paradiso entered Barcelona's cocktail scene through a refrigerator door in a pastrami shop and never stopped surprising. Named the World's Best Bar in 2022 and ranked in the World's 50 Best Bars every year since 2018, it operates in a carved-wood interior designed to disorient, then delight. The drinks programme, currently themed around 'The Mysteries of the Universe', treats each cocktail as a scientific proposition.

Eleven consecutive appearances on the World's 50 Best Bars list — most recently ranked #17 in 2024 — position Baba au Rum as one of the most consistently recognised bars in Europe. Located at Klitiou 6 in central Athens, the bar's back bar holds more than 400 rums, and its rum-and-cocktail-society format has drawn a devoted local and international following for over 15 years.