The World’s 50 Best Bars for 2015 were announced in London with Artesian in London taking out first place. New York’s The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog came in second place and at number 3, London’s NightJar. The top 3 have held the same ranking as the previous year.
On the home front, The Baxter Inn in Sydney came in 6th place and Melbourne’s Black Pearl jumped 27 spots to the 10th place. The Everleigh in Melbourne was ranked at 25 and Sydney’s Bulletin Place at 28.
Voting was done by The Academy with over 400 members from around the world which I was invited to be part of for the third year running.
The full list of the World’s 50 Best Bars 2015:
1. Artesian, London
2. The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog, New York
3. Nightjar, London
4. Employees Only, New York
5. American Bar, London
6. The Baxter Inn, Sydney
7. 28 Hongkong Street, Singapore
8. Happiness Forgets, London
9. Connaught Bar, London
10. Black Pearl, Melbourne
11. Attaboy, New York
12. Candelaria, Paris
13. High Five, Tokyo
14. The Broken Shaker, Miami
15. Canon, Seattle
16. Buck & Breck, Berlin
17. Imperial Craft, Tel Aviv
18. Lobster Bar, Hong Kong
19. Le Lion Bar de Paris, Hamburg
20. Licoreria Limantour, Mexico City
21. The Jerry Thomas Project, Rome
22. The Clumsies, Athens
23. Maison Premiere, New York
24. Elephant Bar, New York
25. The Everleigh, Melbourne
26. White Lyan, London
27. Beaufort Bar, London
28. Bulletin Place, Sydney
29. Aviary, Chicago
30. Tales & Spirits, Amsterdam
31. Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco
32. Delicatessen, Moscow
33. Door 74, Amsterdam
34. Ruby, Copenhagen
35. Manhattan, Singapore
36. Nomad Bar, New York
37. PDT, New York
38. Mace, New York
39. Quinary, Hong Kong
40. Trick Dog, San Francisco
41. 69 Colebrooke Row, London
42. Dry Martini, Barcelona
43. Schumann’s, Munich
44. Zuma Dubai, Dubai
45. La Factoria Old, San Juan
46. Nottingham Forest, Milan
47. Tommy’s, San Francisco
48. Lost & Found, Cyprus
49. Little Red Door, Paris
50. Dandelyan, London
