World’s 50 Best Bars 2022 Unveiled and Sees Spanish Bar Paradiso Take No. 1!
This year's World’s 50 Best Bars 2022 list, sponsored by Perrier, was unveiled at a live awards ceremony in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on Tuesday 4th October.
Marking the 14th year of the illustrious list, and the first time unveiled outside of London, the awards unite the global bar community in recognition of the bartenders, bar owners and brands at the forefront of the international cocktail scene.
Barcelona’s
Paradiso take the No.1 spot to be named
The Best Bar in Europe and
The World’s Best Bar, sponsored by Perrier. This is the first time this honour has been bestowed on a bar outside of the historic cocktail capitals of New York and London.
“The fact that this is the first time we have crowned a bar outside New York or London as The World’s Best Bar is a testament to the huge achievements of Giacomo, Margarita and their team," Mark Sansom, Content Director of The World’s 50 Best Bars, says. "Since being named One To Watch in 2017 a year after opening, Paradiso has been a firm fixture of the 50 Best list, enhancing its ranking year after year. It is an honour to name it as The World’s Best Bar and the win is credit to Paradiso’s outlandishly inventive cocktail programme, sustainable ethos, work in the global bar community and brilliant sense of fun. Our heartfelt congratulations go out to each and every bar on the list and we are delighted to once again be able to showcase the incredible diversity of the global bar sector, from grand hotel bars and dive bars to neighbourhood speakeasies and stunning rooftop spaces. The consumer appetite for quality cocktail bars just keeps on growing and to be able to introduce 14 new entries to help sate this and encourage travel plans couldn’t make us happier.”
Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong each have two bars in the list, with Singapore’s
Jigger & Pony (No.12) named
The Best Bar in Asia. It is joined by
Manhattan at No.33. Bangkok boasts new entries
BKK Social Club, winner of
London Essence Best New Opening at No.14, as well as new entry
Tropic City at No.24. Hong Kong’s
Coa comes in at No.17 alongside new entry
Argo at No.28.
Elsewhere, New Delhi’s
Sidecar, which last year was the first Indian entry since 2010, has risen an impressive 21 places to No.26.
Bar Benfiddich in Tokyo is No.48.
For the full list, click here!
