The World's 50 Best Bars list is out - and Wall Street's favorite pub nabbed the No. 2 spot
For the fourth year running, London's Artesian maintained its No. 1 status on The World's 50 Best Bars list.
Organized by Drinks International magazine, the global bar awards ceremony is now in its fifth year. Apart from Artesian, New York's PDT is the only bar to ever claim the top spot; it was named the world's best bar in 2011.
This year's top 50 spanned 27 cities in 19 countries, with 23 of the chosen bars hailing from Europe and 14 making a strong showing for the US.
Sitting at No. 2 and earning the title of North America's best bar is New York's venerable The Dead Rabbit, an Irish pub located in the Financial District and owned by two Belfast natives. The Wall Street favorite was also voted second best in the world (and best in North America) on the 2014 list.
As for the rest of the top five, it's a London vs. New York throwdown, with London's Nightjar, New York's Employees Only, and London's American Bar nabbing the third, fourth, and fifth spots, respectively.
Miami's treasured The Broken Shaker (a James Beard Award semi-finalist) shot up from No. 22 to No. 14, while Chicago's forward-thinking The Aviary Bar fell from 13th place to 29th.
The awards are based on a poll of over 400 industry professionals. Each voter names five exemplary bars in order of preference (two must be international) and a single pollster spends months weighting and narrowing the list of bars - which this year amounted to 542 - down to the top 50.
Here's a full list of The World's 50 Best Bars:
- The Artesian, London
- Dead Rabbit, New York
- Nightjar, London
- Employees Only, New York
- American Bar, London
- The Baxter Inn, Sydney
- 28 Hongkong Street, Singapore
- Happiness Forgets, London
- Connaught Bar, London
- Black Pearl, Melbourne
- Attaboy, New York
- Candelaria, Paris
- High Five, Tokyo
- Broken Shaker, Miami
- Canon, Seattle
- Buck & Breck, Berlin
- Imperial Craft, Tel Aviv
- Lobster Bar, Hong Kong
- Le Lion Bar de Paris, Hamburg, Germany
- Licoreria Limantour, Mexico City
- The Jerry Thomas Project, Rome
- The Clumsies, Athens
- Maison Premiere, New York
- Elephant Bar, 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, 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, Italy
- Tommy's, San Francisco
- Lost & Found, Cyprus
- Little Red Door, Paris
- Dandelyan, London