Tales Spirited Awards 2026: Best International Restaurant Bar Top 10 Nominees

Named in the Tatler Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025 list, Hiboru occupies a quiet lane off Jianguo North Road in Zhongshan District, where Taipei's bar scene plays between nostalgia and craft. The venue positions itself somewhere between bar and restaurant, drawing a crowd that values atmosphere as much as the glass in front of them. It is a useful address for anyone mapping the city's more considered drinking options.

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, and the farming communities behind every ingredient.

Operating from a conservation shophouse on Amoy Street, Fura has carved a specific position in Singapore's bar scene: progressive cocktails built around sustainability principles, without treating ecological constraint as an excuse for lesser drinking. Named in Tatler's Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025 with the Best Innovation award, and ranked #42 in Asia's 50 Best Bars 2024, it addresses the growing overlap between environmental thinking and serious craft.

Arca has held a position inside the World's 50 Best Bars global list every year since 2022, reaching #55 in 2024 and #77 in 2025, making it the most consistently decorated bar in the Yucatán Peninsula. Set on the Tulum beach road at Km 7.6, it operates where the jungle presses against the Caribbean coast and where fermented, foraged, and fire-driven drinks have become the dominant local idiom.

Ranked #116 in the Top 500 Bars (2025), Le Mary Celeste is a Marais institution where maritime-inspired interiors meet a menu built around natural wines, inventive cocktails, and seafood-driven small plates. Operated by Quixotic Projects, the bar sits at the intersection of neighbourhood casual and serious drinks programming — a combination that has made it one of the most consistent addresses on Rue Commines since it opened.

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 a 4.7 Google rating from over 3,000 reviews.

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.

Bar Raval on College Street has held a place in the upper tier of North American bar recognition since 2022, when it placed 41st on the World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars list, and reached 84th globally in 2025. The sinuous mahogany bar and communal oak-barrel tables frame a program built on vermouth, sherry, amaro, and a sustainability-led cocktail list. Pintxos run from midday; the room runs later.