PARCHED | WHO'S #1 IN THE WORLD'S 50 BEST BARS?

After two years as the runner-up, the number one bar in The World’s 50 Best Bars is:

the dead rabbit

#1 The Dead Rabbit, New York (above)

#2 American Bar, London

#3 Dandelyan, London

#4 Conaught Bar, London

#5 Attaboy, New York

#6 The Gibson, London

#7 Employees Only, New York. (Read about the Singapore one here)

#8 Nomad Bar, New York

#9 The Clumsies, Athens

#10 Happiness Forgets, London

manhattan bar regent hotel

#11 Manhattan, Singapore (above, Singapore’s, and Asia’s highest entry)

#12 The Baxter Inn, Sydney

#13 Licoreria Limantour, Mexico City

28 Hong kong street

#14 28 Hong Kong Street, Singapore (headed by Logan Demmy, above)

#15 Speak Low, Shanghai

See the rest of the World’s 50 Best Bars 2016

See Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2016

And how do they pick these bars? Hamish Smith, editor of The World’s 50 Best Bars, explains the voting process:

“Here at The World’s 50 Best Bars HQ, we like to think our list provides the most credible response to the question.

Each year we aim to capture the voice of the most knowledgeable and travelled industry experts in the world, in order to present a snapshot of the bars that are at the top of their game globally. We poll, we count the votes and then we present the results in a magazine, on a website and at a ceremony in London – and we call it The World’s 50 Best Bars.

Unlike many lists and articles out there, we do not assert our own views, or that of a small panel, but defer to the collective voice of the global industry. This year we selected 476 bar experts – what we consider to be the strongest, most diverse collection of industry authorities ever assembled to express their views on the best bars in the world. An untidy number, you might think, but we do not have a quota or target. Each year, new industry personalities emerge from all corners of the globe who fulfil our criteria of being influential, knowledgeable and, crucially, well travelled…” Read the rest here.

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