London has the best bar in the world – Artesian at The Langham hotel.
The cocktail bar, above, in Portland Place, which has the city’s largest collection of rums, tops the World’s 50 Best Bars Awards 2015.
Other London bars that make the list are Nightjar, above, in City Road at No3, American Bar at The Savoy on The Strand at No5, Happiness Forgets in Hoxton Square at No8, Connaught Bar at The Connaught in Carlos Place at No9, White Lyan on Hoxton Street at No26, Beaufort Bar in The Savoy at No 27 and Dandelyan in Upper Ground at No 50.
Here’s the full list – how many have you been to?
- ARTESIAN, LONDON
- THE DEAD RABBIT GROCERY AND GROG, NEW YORK
- NIGHTJAR, LONDON
- EMPLOYEES ONLY, NEW YORK
- AMERICAN BAR AT THE SAVOY, LONDON
- THE BAXTER INN, SYDNEY
- 28 HONG KONG STREET, SINGAPORE
- HAPPINESS FORGETS, LONDON
- CONNAUGHT BAR AT THE CONNAUGHT, LONDON
- BLACK PEARL, MELBOURNE
- ATTABOY, NEW YORK
- CANDELARIA, PARIS
- HIGH FIVE, TOKYO
- THE BROKEN SHAKER, MIAMI
- CANON, SEATTLE
- BUCK AND BRECK, BERLIN
- IMPERIAL CRAFT, TEL AVIV
- LOBSTER BAR, HONG KONG
- LE LION BAR DE PARIS, HAMBURG
- LICORERIA LIMANTOUR, MEXICO CITY
- THE JERRY THOMAS PROJECT, ROME
- THE CLUMSIES, ATHENS
- MAISON PREMIERE, NEW YORK
- ELEPHANT BAR AT THE NOMAD HOTEL, NEW YORK
- THE EVERLEIGH, MELBOURNE
- WHITE LYAN, LONDON
- BEAUFORT BAR, LONDON
- BULLETIN PLACE, SYDNEY
- AVIARY, CHICAGO
- TALES & SPIRITS, AMSTERDAM
- SMUGGLER’S COVE, SAN FRANCISCO
- DELICATESSEN, MOSCOW
- DOOR 74, AMSTERDAM
- RUBY, COPENHAGEN
- MANHATTAN, SINGAPORE
- NOMAD BAR AT THE NOMAD HOTEL, NEW YORK
- PDT, NEW YORK
- MACE, NEW YORK
- QUINARY, HONG KONG
- TRICK DOG, SAN FRANCISCO
- 69 COLEBROOKE ROW, LONDON
- DRY MARTINI, BARCELONA
- SCHUMANN’S, MUNICH
- ZUMA DUBAI, DUBAI
- LA FACTORIA, OLD SAN JUAN
- NOTTINGHAM FOREST, MILAN
- TOMMY’S, SAN FRANCISCO
- LOST & FOUND, CYPRUS
- LITTLE RED DOOR, PARIS
- DANDELYAN, LONDON
How are they chosen? The World’s 50 Best Bars is the most influential and respected global survey of its kind. The awards – Christ Church Spitalfields in London – are the result of an international industry survey produced by Drinks International, the leading magazine for the global drinks industry.
