The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023 were announced on 17 October in Singapore with Sips, Barcelona crowned The World’s Best Bar. It is the second time in consecutive years that a bar from Barcelona has taken the top spot. Here is the full list.
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Within Australia, Sydney’s Maybe Sammy climbed 14 places (No. 15), being the fifth time it has been best in the continent and Melbourne’s cocktail pub Caretaker’s Cottage entered the list (No.23).
The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023 features establishments from 28 cities, with Barcelona’s Sips crowned The Best Bar in Europe and The World’s Best Bar. This is the second time a bar from Barcelona has taken the top spot in as many years, following Paradiso’s triumph in 2022.
Located in the heart of Barcelona’s L’Antiga Esquerra de l’Eixample district, Sips combines elegant design with cutting-edge technique to create an unfussy and playful ‘drinkery house’ from two titans of the industry, Simone Caporale and Marc Álvarez. Drawing on the lessons of their already illustrious careers – Caporale was one half of the creative duo that led London’s Artesian to The World’s Best Bar title a record four times, whilst Álvarez spent almost a decade at Ferran and Albert Adrià’s revolutionary elBarri restaurant group – the duo’s disruptive approach to creative mixology shines through in innovative haute couture serves at pret-a-porter prices.
The bar’s atmospheric interior encompasses muted pastel and gold-accented seating orbiting a futuristic workstation in place of the traditional bar. This design removes any barrier between guest and bartender, with the aim of centring the human aspect of service to create a multi-sensory, immersive drinking experience.
Highlights
- Sips, Barcelona, ranks No.1 in The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023, the second bar from Barcelona to take the top spot in as many years
- The 2023 list features bars from 28 cities with 11 new entries across Bangkok, Berlin, Dubai, London, Melbourne, New Orleans, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm
- Renato ‘Tato’ Giovannoni of Florería Atlántico in Buenos Aires has been voted Roku Industry Icon
- Lima’s Lady Bee is named Campari One To Watch
- Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu is awarded to The American Bar at Gleneagles in Auchterarder, Scotland
- The Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award is bestowed upon Röda Huset, Stockholm
- Seoul’s Zest takes the Disaronno Highest New Entry Award, joining the list for the first time at No.18
- Himkok in Oslo secures the Nikka Highest Climber Award, having moved up 33 places to No.10
- Athens’ The Clumsies claims the title of Rémy Martin Legend of The List
- Line, also in Athens, is named London Essence Best New Opening
- Apoorva Kohli of Sidecar in New Delhi is the recipient of the 50 Best Bars The Blend Scholarship
- The winner of the inaugural Bareksten Best Bar Design Award is Singapore’s Night Hawk
The World’s 50 Best Bars 2023
1 Sips Barcelona
2 Double Chicken Please New York
3 Handshake Speakeasy Mexico City
4 Paradiso Barcelona
5 Connaught Bar London
6 Little Red Door Paris
7 Licorería Limantour Mexico City
8 Tayēr + Elementary London
9 Alquímico Cartagena
10 Himkok Oslo
11 Tres Monos Buenos Aires
12 Line Athens
13 BKK Social Club Bangkok
14 Jigger & Pony Singapore
15 Maybe Sammy Sydney
16 Salmon Guru Madrid
17 Overstory New York
18 Zest Seoul
19 Mahaniyom Cocktail Bar Bangkok
20 Coa Hong Kong
21 Drink Kong Rome
22 Hanky Panky Mexico City
23 Caretaker’s Cottage Melbourne
24 Café La Trova Miami
25 Baba au Rum Athens
26 CoChinChina Buenos Aires
27 Katana Kitten New York
28 Satan’s Whiskers London
29 Wax On Berlin
30 Florería Atlántico Buenos Aires
31 Röda Huset Stockholm
32 Sago House Singapore
33 Freni e Frizioni Rome
34 Argo Hong Kong
35 A Bar with Shapes for a Name London
36 The SG Club Tokyo
37 Bar Benfiddich Tokyo
38 The Cambridge Public House Paris
39 Panda & Sons Edinburgh
40 Mimi Kakushi Dubai
41 Scarfes Bar London
42 1930 Milan
43 Carnaval Lima
44 L’Antiquario Naples
45 Baltra Bar Mexico City
46 Locale Firenze Florence
47 The Clumsies Athens
48 Atlas Singapore
49 Jewel of the South New Orleans
50 Galaxy Bar Dubai
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