Barcelona’s Sips takes high spot as The World’s 50 Finest Bars are named – Drinks Worldwide

Opened two years in the past, bringing modernist, technique-driven cocktails to Barcelona, Sips is owned by Ex-El Bulli man Marc Alvarez and Simone Caporale, who’s now the one bartender to have received The World’s 50 Finest Bars 5 instances, following wins at Artesian from 2012-2015.

It’s now the second 12 months working that The World’s 50 Finest Bars Academy – a pool of 680 worldwide bar consultants – has voted for a Barcelona bar as its primary, following Paradiso’s breakthrough triumph final 12 months.

The outcomes had been unveiled this night (October 17 2023) on the landmark Pasir Panjang Energy Station in Singapore earlier than a throng of 1,000 international bar business onlookers.

Double Rooster Please – an ingredients-led cocktail bar in New York Metropolis’s Decrease East Aspect opened by Taiwanese duo Faye Chen and GN Chan – jumped from sixth spot to second, cementing its popularity as The Finest Bar in North America.

Handshake, the Mexican speakeasy fronted by Dutchman Eric van Beek, jumped eight locations, main a quartet of bars from Mexico Metropolis on this 12 months’s checklist. It achieved the joint-best end of any bar outdoors of London, New York and Barcelona.

Giacomo Gianniotti and Margarita Sader from Paradiso, a fantastical Dali-esque speakeasy entered by a pastrami store in Barcelona, adopted up final 12 months’s win with one other sturdy exhibiting, ending fourth.

Whereas in fifth, and climbing three locations, got here the 2020-2021 champion Connaught Bar. The Mayfair resort bar, helmed by In the past Perrone, Maura Milia and Giorgio Bargiani, is the best positioned of the 5 London bars on the checklist.

Sustaining their positions within the high ten are Paris’ Little Pink Door in sixth, Mexico Metropolis’s Licorería Limantour in seventh, London’s Tayēr + Elementary in eighth and Cartagena’s Alquímico in ninth. Himkok from Oslo is the best climber, transferring 33 locations to tenth.

This 12 months’s checklist noticed 11 new entries – Melbourne’s Caretaker’s Cottage, Rome’s Freni e Frizioni, New Orleans’ Jewel of the South, Bangkok’s Mahaniyom, Dubai’s Mimi Kakushi, Stockholm’s Röda Huset, Singapore’s Sago Home, London’s Scarfes Bar, Paris’ The Cambridge, Berlin’s Wax On and Seoul’s Zest.

Singapore’s Atlas, Panda & Sons in Edinburgh and The SG Membership from Tokyo re-entered the 50 having appeared in earlier editions.

Among the many 14 bars to have left the checklist are Attaboy, Dante and Staff Solely from New York, Manhattan in Singapore and Two Schmucks in Barcelona.

The World’s 50 Finest Bars 2023