Bars

Bar Leone ★ 4.9

Bar Leone on Bridges Street in Central is Lorenzo Antinori's Roman aperitivo bar, ranked No. 1 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, with cocktails poured.

Handshake Speakeasy ★ 4.9

Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City is the Juarez Amberes Street cocktail temple ranked No. 1 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2024 and No. 2 in 2025.

Jigger and Pony ★ 4.9

Zest ★ 4.9

Zest ranked No. 2 Asia's 50 Best Bars and No. 16 World's 50 Best Bars 2025, serving Korean seasonal cocktails sourced from contract farms in Gangnam.

Bar Leather Apron ★ 4.9

Bar Leather Apron in Downtown Honolulu is Justin and Tom Park's intimate cocktail bar on the TOPA Financial Center mezzanine, the 2023 James Beard winner.

Tres Monos ★ 4.8

Sebastian Atienza, Charly Aguinsky and Gus Vocke's Palermo Soho corner; #10 on World's 50 Best Bars 2025. Own-label spirits with Argentine producers.

Black Pearl ★ 4.8

Black Pearl on Brunswick Street has been named among the world's best bars: serious craft cocktails in a Fitzroy corner pub built around technique above.

Maybe Sammy ★ 4.8

Maybe Sammy on Harrington Street, The Rocks, Sydney. Italian-American mid-century cocktail bar, longstanding presence on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Cantina OK! ★ 4.8

Twenty-seat mezcaleria on Council Place, Sydney CBD. On the World's 50 Best Bars extended list; rare agave-distilled spirits. Daily 4pm-2am, walk-ins only.

Truth & Dare ★ 4.8

Truth & Dare on Schoenlaterngasse off Wollzeile won Mixology's Best Bar Austria for 2023, 2024 and 2025, the small room a tasting-led cocktail program.

MoNIKa's Wine Bar ★ 4.8

MoNIKa's Wine Bar on Ban Mladenova in Split's Old Town pours wines from the family's Zrnovnica estate alongside Dalmatian cheese and prsut boards in a small.

Ruby ★ 4.8

Ruby in a 1740 townhouse on Nybrogade in Copenhagen is the city's reference cocktail room, opened 2007 with a parliament view, jazz-club basement and bar.

Põhjala Tap Room ★ 4.8

Põhjala Tap Room in Noblessner is Estonia's largest craft brewery taproom with 24 taps, a Texas-style barbecue kitchen and a sauna in the back of the room.

Chez Tonton ★ 4.8

Chez Tonton on Place Saint-Pierre is the legendary student bar with a square-terrace crowd, tapas plates from 18:00 and the canonical pastis pour.

Little Link ★ 4.8

Little Link on Maastrichter Strasse in Cologne's Belgisches Viertel is an award-winning cocktail bar; named Germany's most innovative bar for seasonal drinks.

Le Lion Bar de Paris ★ 4.8

Le Lion Bar de Paris on Rathausstrasse in Hamburg's Altstadt is Joerg Meyer's classic cocktail room since 2007 and the cradle of the 2008 Gin Basil Smash.

Purovoku Project ★ 4.8

Purovoku Project earned a 50 Best Discovery recognition, making it one of the most decorated cocktail bars in Greece. At Karipi 3. Booking recommended.

Ekaa Bar Cocktails ★ 4.8

Ekaa Bar runs a five-part cocktail flight that mirrors the tasting menu's progression. Bartender-led, paired with a small chef snack across the long evening.

Crane Bar ★ 4.8

The Crane Bar on Sea Road Galway is the hub of traditional music; nightly trad sessions on a stage that launched music careers since the 1980s.

Locale Firenze ★ 4.8

Locale Firenze in Florence's Centro Storico runs the cocktail bar inside the 13th-century Palazzo delle Seggiole, with the Smoked Negroni, a daily-changing.

MAG Cafe ★ 4.8

MAG Cafe at the Naviglio Grande has shaped Milan's cocktail scene since 2011, the bar with the antique Argentine pharmacy counter where Flavio Angiolillo.

L'Ebbrezza di Noe ★ 4.8

L'Ebbrezza di Noe in Naples' Chiaia pours natural wines from 400 Italian and Campanian growers plus a modest cocktail list, the city's strongest cellar.

Bar Higuchi ★ 4.8

Bar Higuchi in Nakasu-Kawabata is a whisky cocktail bar with a vast bottle collection. iPad menu with transparent pricing, signature Moscow Mules made well.

Craftroom ★ 4.8

Asia's 50 Best Bars-ranked Osaka cocktail bar by Ryu Fujii, experimenting with Japanese ferments and distillates in a discreet Umeda basement under Osaka.

The Nikka Bar Sapporo ★ 4.8

Nikka Whisky's Hokkaido flagship in Susukino, pouring rare expressions of Taketsuru, Yoichi and Miyagikyo from the company's own cellar warehouse.

Bar High Five ★ 4.8

Bar High Five in Tokyo's Ginza is Hidetsugu Ueno's basement cocktail counter, World's 50 Best Bars 2011-2023. Hand-cut ice, custom drinks to your taste.

SG Club ★ 4.8

SG Club in Tokyo's Jinnan is Shingo Gokan's two-floor cocktail bar, Asia's 50 Best No. 9 in 2023. Order the showa-era cocktails on the two floors.

Gen Yamamoto ★ 4.8

Gen Yamamoto in Tokyo's Azabu-Juban serves an eight-seat seasonal cocktail tasting flight only. Four or six courses of seasonal-ingredient cocktails, no food.

Špunka ★ 4.8

Špunka is the bohemian Užupis craft beer bar, a tiny room with a handful of taps and tables packed with massive personality near the Vilnelė.

Licoreria Limantour ★ 4.8

Licoreria Limantour in Mexico City is the Roma Norte cocktail flagship on Avenida Alvaro Obregon, one of the World's 50 Best Bars regulars since 2014.

Lady Bee ★ 4.8

Lady Bee at Av Pedro de Osma 205 in Barranco Lima is the husband-and-wife bar at No.13 on World's 50 Best Bars 2025, the Michter's Art of Hospitality winner.

Mercy Brown ★ 4.8

Mercy Brown in Kraków is the city's most editorial speakeasy: unmarked door on Straszewskiego, candlelit cellar, classic cocktails and Polish whiskey.

Kafana ? (Question Mark) ★ 4.8

Question Mark on Kralja Petra opposite the Saborna Church is Belgrade's oldest kafana, opened 1826 by Doctor Toma. Rakija pours, Serbian classics.

Sips ★ 4.8

Sips in Barcelona's Eixample is Marc Alvarez and Simone Caporale's Worlds 50 Best No. 1 cocktail bar (2023): a glass cube on Muntaner, tasting-menu drinks.

Bar Garlochi ★ 4.8

Bar Garlochi on Calle Boteros in Seville is the kitsch-religious dive bar that Miguel Fragoso opened on June 15, 1978, with church incense, religious statues.

BKK Social Club ★ 4.8

BKK Social Club in Bangkok's Four Seasons Chao Phraya is Philip Bischoff's Argentine-influenced cocktail counter, Asia's 50 Best Bars No. 3 in 2023.

The Connaught Bar ★ 4.8

Agostino Perrone's hotel cocktail bar inside The Connaught in Mayfair London, opened 2008, runs the trolley-poured Connaught Martini table-side.

Sovereign Remedies ★ 4.8

Sovereign Remedies on North Market Street is the multilevel apothecary-themed cocktail bar in a historic downtown building. Bar opened 2014, kitchen.

Marble + Rye (Cocktail Bar) ★ 4.8

Marble + Rye on Genesee Street downtown is the Dimmer-Willmott cocktail program, with seasonal mixed drinks and Buffalo's most considered bar work.

Devil Takes a Holiday ★ 4.8

Devil Takes a Holiday on St Paul Street across from City Hall Park, an upscale Burlington cocktail lounge with hand-crafted drinks and a chic vintage room.

Kumiko ★ 4.8

Kumiko in Chicago is Julia Momose's West Loop Japanese cocktail bar on Lake Street, with a kaiseki-leaning food menu and a James Beard Outstanding Bar.

Sundry and Vice ★ 4.8

Sundry and Vice on West 13th Street in OTR is Cincinnati's apothecary-themed cocktail bar with bitters and one of the city's strongest spirits programs.

Law Bird ★ 4.8

Law Bird on South High Street in Columbus is Luke and Annie Williams Pierce's intimate cocktail and natural-wine bar in the Brewery District since 2019.

Williams and Graham ★ 4.8

Williams and Graham in Denver is Sean Kenyon's Highland speakeasy behind an unmarked bookcase, a James Beard nominee since 2011 and a Front Range cocktail.

Standby ★ 4.8

Standby in The Belt alley off Gratiot serves modern cocktails in downtown Detroit since 2015. Order the house cocktail, often barrel-aged. At 225 Gratiot Ave.

The Green Parrot ★ 4.8

The Green Parrot has poured at Whitehead and Southard since 1890 by its own count, Key West's open-shuttered dive with free popcorn and nightly bands.

Herbs and Rye ★ 4.8

Herbs and Rye in Las Vegas is the West Sahara speakeasy since 2009, a classic-cocktail bar and late-night steakhouse with the half-price happy hour.

Doc Crow's Southern Smokehouse and Raw Bar ★ 4.8

Doc Crow's on West Main in Louisville pours from a 2,700-bourbon library on Whiskey Row, the city's deepest bourbon list paired with smoked brisket and a raw.

Bryant's Cocktail Lounge ★ 4.8

Bryant's Cocktail Lounge on South 9th Street in Lincoln Village has poured no-menu cocktails since 1938 with dealer's-choice service and signature pink.

Jewel of the South ★ 4.8

Jewel of the South in New Orleans is Chris Hannah's St Louis Street cocktail temple in an 1830s Creole cottage, four-time North America's 50 Best South USA.

Ordinaire ★ 4.8

Ordinaire on Grand Avenue near Lake Merritt has poured natural wine since Bradford Taylor opened it in 2013. Bistro plates, daily until 21:00.

Hop Sing Laundromat ★ 4.8

Hop Sing Laundromat in Philadelphia is the unmarked Chinatown speakeasy on Race Street since 2012, with 1,000-plus rare spirits, strict house rules.

Multnomah Whisk(e)y Library ★ 4.8

Portland's whiskey library and membership lounge on SW Alder, with 1,500+ bottles on rolling library ladders, leather wingbacks and cart-pulled cocktail.

Water Witch ★ 4.8

Water Witch on West 900 South, Sean Neves, Scott Gardner and Matt Pfohl's Central 9th cocktail bar, was a 2025 James Beard Outstanding Bar finalist.

Tanto ★ 4.8

Tanto on North Florida Avenue runs a creative Latin-inflected cocktail program with mezcal, agave spirits and a small-plates menu of Latin American bites.

Bern's Bar Below 1208 ★ 4.8

Bar Below 1208 sits underneath Bern's Steakhouse and runs creative cocktails using the Bern's cellar inventory, with vintage vermouth and rare amari.

The Owls Club ★ 4.8

The Owls Club on South Scott in downtown Tucson is a Food and Wine Top 10 US Bars 2026 cocktail room set inside a former funeral home in the Armory Park area.

Workshop14 ★ 4.8

Workshop14 in Hanoi is bartender Rich McDonough's minimal Tay Ho room, ranked No 83 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 and winner of the Campari One To Watch Award.

Floreria Atlantico ★ 4.7

Tato Giovannoni's subterranean cocktail bar behind the cold-room door of a Retiro flower shop. World's 50 Best Bars list; menu themed by immigrant origins.

Cobbler ★ 4.7

Cobbler on Browning Street in West End is the cult whisky and rum hideaway. 350-plus whiskies and seasonal cocktails behind a heritage shopfront.

The Baxter Inn ★ 4.7

Whisky basement on Clarence Street, Sydney CBD. Over 1,000 bottles on the back wall; the bartenders dress in arm-bands and braces. Mon-Sat from 5pm.

Old Mates Place ★ 4.7

Two-level cocktail bar on Clarence Street, Sydney CBD with a rooftop terrace and Aussie native-ingredient cocktail program. Open Tue-Sat from 5pm.

Dean & Nancy on 22 ★ 4.7

Top-of-tower cocktail bar on Hunter Street, Sydney CBD. Floor 22 of A by Adina Hotel; harbour view, theatrical martini service, bookings essential.

Liz Cocktail & Wine ★ 4.7

Liz Cocktail & Wine on Rua Dias Ferreira in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, won best drinks list at Veja Rio Comer & Beber 2026 and also pours a short wine list.

Bar Raval ★ 4.7

Bar Raval on College runs vermouth on tap and Spanish bar snacks from a mahogany Art Nouveau counter since 2015, Grant van Gameren's room the Michelin Bib.

Bar Pompette ★ 4.7

Bar Pompette on College Street is the aperitif bar above Pompette since 2018, North America's 50 Best Bars ranked #8 in 2026 with a low-ABV cocktail program.

The Keefer Bar ★ 4.7

The Keefer Bar on Keefer Street in Chinatown since 2009 is Vancouver's reference cocktail bar, an apothecary-style room, Canada's 50 Best Bars perennial.

Botanist Bar ★ 4.7

Botanist Bar at the Fairmont Pacific Rim is the hotel's stand-alone cocktail room since 2017, World's 50 Best Bars top 30 and head bartender Jeff Savage.

Hemingway Bar ★ 4.7

Hemingway Bar in the Old Town is Prague's serious cocktail destination, holding the city's largest absinthe collection and over 200 rums in a corner-room.

St. Pauls Apothek ★ 4.7

The most ambitious cocktail bar in Aarhus. The apothecary-themed room on Jaegergaardsgade runs a cocktail tasting menu format where each pour is built around.

Lidkoeb ★ 4.7

Lidkoeb on Vesterbrogade in Vesterbro spreads cocktails across three floors and a courtyard garden, with a whisky bar upstairs running flights on Friday.

Fotografiska Rooftop Bar ★ 4.7

Fotografiska's rooftop bar above the photography museum mixes cocktails with honey from in-house beehives and herbs from the rooftop garden.

Bar Hemingway ★ 4.7

Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris is Colin Field's classic-cocktail temple. Open 18:00-02:00. No standing; book a 19:00 seat for the calmer first hour.

Schwarze Traube ★ 4.7

Schwarze Traube on Muskauer Strasse in Kreuzberg has run a no-menu bespoke cocktail room since 2012; tell the bartender a spirit and a profile and they build.

Velvet ★ 4.7

Velvet on Ganghoferstrasse in Neukoelln is a hyperseasonal cocktail room from a small team that resets the menu every week around foraged Berlin plants.

ONA MOR ★ 4.7

ONA MOR on Roonstrasse in Cologne's Kwartier Latäng is listed on Cologne Tourism for craft cocktails and DJ nights in a lively neighbourhood bar room.

Toddy Tapper ★ 4.7

Toddy Tapper on Schillingstrasse in Cologne's Agnesviertel is a South Asian-inspired cocktail bar mixing drinks with coconut toddy and tamarind infusions.

Schumann's Bar am Hofgarten ★ 4.7

Charles Schumann's Schumann's Bar on Munich's Odeonsplatz is the city's classic American bar; the room transitions from restaurant to cocktail hour around.

Zephyr Bar ★ 4.7

Zephyr Bar in Munich's Glockenbach since 2011 runs Lukas Motejzik's experimental cocktail programme; the room won Mixology Bar Team of the Year 2025.

The Clumsies ★ 4.7

The Clumsies on Praxitelous is the Athens cocktail bar of record, on the World's 50 Best Bars list every year since 2015 from Nikos Bakoulis and Vasilis.

Line ★ 4.7

Line in Athens is the second venture from the Clumsies team Nikos Bakoulis and Vasilis Kyritsis, ranked No. 8 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2025 in a converted.

COA ★ 4.7

COA on Shin Hing Street in Central is Jay Khan's agave bar, ranked No. 38 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025 with a deep cellar of tequila, mezcal.

Slink and Bardot ★ 4.7

Slink and Bardot in a refurbished colonial bungalow in Worli runs French cocktail classics through a modern bar program. Editor's TableJourney pick.

The Long Hall ★ 4.7

The Long Hall on South Great George's Street in Dublin 2, a Victorian saloon since 1881 with original mahogany and mirror back-bar, the city's best Guinness.

Grogan's Castle Lounge ★ 4.7

Grogan's on South William Street in Dublin 2, the artist's pub since the 1970s, the city's reference for a creamy Guinness and a toasted-cheese-and-ham.

The Cobblestone ★ 4.7

The Cobblestone on King Street North in Smithfield, Dublin 7, Tom Mulligan's family trad music pub, the city's reference for an unplugged session.

Tigh Neachtain ★ 4.7

Tigh Neachtain on Cross Street Galway is the most ambient trad-session pub in the west; low ceilings, open fire and live music most nights since 1894.

Roisin Dubh ★ 4.7

Roisin Dubh on Upper Dominick Street is Galway's principal live-music and comedy venue; Gugai's 2006 rebuild added a rooftop beer garden and a room upstairs.

Atrium Bar at Four Seasons ★ 4.7

Atrium Bar at Florence's Four Seasons Hotel sits inside the 15th-century Palazzo della Gherardesca cloister, with a Negroni programme by Edoardo Sandri.

Ceresio 7 American Bar ★ 4.7

Ceresio 7 American Bar on the 4th floor of the Dsquared2 building runs two outdoor pools and a 360-degree skyline terrace. Located in Isola.

Bocum Mixology ★ 4.7

Bocum Mixology on Via dei Cassari in Palermo's Vucciria is the city's senior cocktail bar, Gambero Rosso's Sicily benchmark, deep Sicilian-spirits list.

Antica Bottega del Vino (bar) ★ 4.7

Antica Bottega del Vino has run Verona's reference wine-only standing counter since 1890, with 4,500 labels on the back bar. A 2026 editor pick.

Antica Bottega del Vino (banco) ★ 4.7

Antica Bottega del Vino's marble standing counter in Verona pours the city's reference ombra circuit since 1890, 4,500 labels on the back-bar.

Bar Nayuta ★ 4.7

A ten-seat Amerikamura cocktail bar near Triangle Park where bartenders craft bespoke drinks to each guest taste from house-made syrups with no fixed menu.

Bar Yamazaki ★ 4.7

Founded late 1950s by mixologist Tatsuro Yamazaki, Bar Yamazaki is one of Japan's classic Susukino cocktail bars; the Emperor's Imperial Prize landed in 1993.

Star Bar Ginza ★ 4.7

Star Bar Ginza in Tokyo's Ginza is Hisashi Kishi's pressed-tin temple of classic cocktail technique since 2000. The Sidecar is the order on a first visit.

Bar Trench ★ 4.7

Bar Trench in Tokyo's Ebisu-Nishi is the absinthe and classic-cocktail counter Rogerio Igarashi Vaz opened in 2010. Asia's 50 Best Bars, back-alley den.

Zoetrope Shinjuku ★ 4.7

Zoetrope in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku is Atsushi Horigami's whisky bar specializing in Japanese spirits. Three-hundred bottles and silent black-and-white film.

Bar BenFiddich ★ 4.7

Bar BenFiddich in Tokyo's Nishi-Shinjuku is Hiroyasu Kayama's apothecary-style cocktail bar. Herbs from his own farm, fresh-muddled and tea-steeped each pour.

Šnekutis (Šv. Mikalojaus) ★ 4.7

Šnekutis on Šv. Mikalojaus is the original Vilnius branch of the Lithuanian beer pub, with 30-plus taps of small-brewery filtered and unfiltered pours.

Genys Taproom Vilnius ★ 4.7

Genys Taproom on J. Basanavičiaus is the official Vilnius outlet for one of Lithuania's main independent craft breweries, with rotating taps and outdoor.

Hanky Panky ★ 4.7

Hanky Panky in Mexico City is the Juarez speakeasy on Turin Street ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars, opened in 2016 by Walter Meyenberg with bartender.

Tlecan ★ 4.7

Tlecan in Mexico City is the Roma Norte pre-Hispanic agave-spirit bar on Alvaro Obregon, North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 No. 3, focused on rare Mexican.

Mezcaloteca ★ 4.7

Mezcaloteca on Reforma has poured by appointment since 2010: small-batch mezcals from family producers, agave cooked in earthen ovens, no chemicals used.

Le Churchill Bar ★ 4.7

Le Churchill Bar at Marrakech's La Mamounia, a black-marble Pullman-style room by Patrick Jouin, is the city's most refined cocktail bar; jacket required.

Door 74 ★ 4.7

Door 74 on Reguliersdwarsstraat is the Amsterdam speakeasy that opened the city's cocktail wave, by reservation only, behind an unmarked door.

Hiding in Plain Sight ★ 4.7

Hiding in Plain Sight on Rapenburg is the Amsterdam American-style cocktail bar, big-windowed despite the speakeasy framing, sharp menu, unfussy room.

Caretaker ★ 4.7

Caretaker is a basement cocktail room beneath 40 Customs Street East in Britomart, Auckland. No drinks menu; bartenders mix to mood. Walk-in or text ahead.

Himkok ★ 4.7

Himkok on Storgata in central Oslo is the Norwegian distillery bar with house-distilled aquavit, gin and vodka, on the World's 50 Best Bars every year.

Territoriet ★ 4.7

Territoriet on Markveien at the foot of Grunerlokka opened in 2014 with 100-plus wines by the glass, now a neighbourhood institution and one of the deepest.

Carnaval ★ 4.7

Carnaval at Av Pardo y Aliaga 662 in San Isidro Lima is the Peruvian temple cocktail bar founded 2018, an Ice Room programme and 70 cocktail menu.

Alchemia ★ 4.7

Alchemia on Kraków's Plac Nowy in Kazimierz has run candle-lit, antique-furniture rooms since 1999. Order the polish vodka shots. At ul. Estery 5.

Piwnica pod Baranami ★ 4.7

Piwnica pod Baranami on Kraków's Rynek Główny is the cabaret cellar that ran the city's literary-cabaret scene since 1956. Order the polish vodka.

Domus Vinum ★ 4.7

The most evocative drinking space in Braga: a 350-year-old arched stone cellar offering vinho verde flights, Douro reds and charcuterie petiscos.

Toca da Raposa ★ 4.7

Toca da Raposa in Lisbon's Chiado: Constanca Cordeiro's 30-seat fox-themed bar, Portuguese spirits and honey-olive-oil drinks from local farms.

Bitters Bar ★ 4.7

Bitters Bar hides a courtyard cocktail garden in Lower Dorcol. Bitters and tiki-inspired drinks named for the old pharmacy medicinal mixtures.

Nutmeg and Clove ★ 4.7

Atlas ★ 4.7

Mirror Bar ★ 4.7

Mirror Bar inside the Radisson Blu Carlton ranks among World's 50 Best Bars 2025 at number 25, with optical-illusion menus and custom Slovak glassware.

Sanullim 1992 ★ 4.7

Sanullim 1992 in Hapjeong is a speakeasy dedicated to Korean traditional spirits: single-variety soju, cheongju, and artisanal makgeolli by the pour.

Paradiso ★ 4.7

Paradiso in Barcelona's Born is the speakeasy through-a-pastrami-shop on Rera Palau: Worlds 50 Best No. 1 in 2022, now book months ahead for cocktail theatre.

Ganbara (counter) ★ 4.7

Ganbara's ground-floor counter on San Jeronimo in San Sebastian's Old Town pours Txakoli alongside the autumn setas pintxo and the spider-crab plate.

La Cuchara de San Telmo (counter) ★ 4.7

La Cuchara de San Telmo on Calle 31 de Agosto in San Sebastian, open since 1999, pairs the made-to-order pintxos with a Rioja-leaning by-the-glass list.

La Terraza del EME ★ 4.7

La Terraza del EME atop the EME Catedral Hotel in Seville is the city's headline rooftop bar, with the closest cocktail-side view of the Giralda.

Tjoget ★ 4.7

Tjoget on Hornsbruksgatan in Stockholm's Hornstull is the World's 50 Best Bars regular; a metallic-bar room with North African and Middle Eastern influences.

Kronenhalle Bar ★ 4.7

Gustav Zumsteg created the bar in 1965; Robert Haussmann designed the room and Diego Giacometti made the light fixtures. The city's most landmark bar.

Indulge Experimental Bistro ★ 4.7

Indulge is Aki Wang's Asia's 50 Best regular in Da'an, ranked 11 in 2023. Cocktails weave native Taiwan teas, fruits and aged spirits through the menu.

Panda and Sons ★ 4.7

Iain McPherson's Panda and Sons on Queen Street in Edinburgh New Town, opened 2013, a speakeasy cocktail bar in a basement disguised as a barber-shop.

Bramble Bar and Lounge ★ 4.7

Bramble on Queen Street in Edinburgh New Town, opened 2006 by Mike Aikman and Jas Scott, a basement cocktail bar credited with launching the city's modern.

Lyaness ★ 4.7

Ryan Chetiyawardana (Mr Lyan)'s cocktail bar inside the Sea Containers hotel on the South Bank in London, opened 2019, runs an ingredient-driven menu.

Swift Soho ★ 4.7

Mia Johansson and Bobby Hiddleston's two-floor cocktail bar on Old Compton Street in Soho London, opened 2016, runs an upstairs Irish-coffee bar.

Schofield's Bar ★ 4.7

Joe and Daniel Schofield's Art Deco cocktail bar on the corner of Sunlight House, Manchester. Top 50 Cocktail Bars list since opening. Walk-ins welcome.

Antidote at Chemist Spirits ★ 4.7

Antidote at Chemist Spirits on Coxe Avenue runs three floors of 1920s apothecary-styled cocktail bar above the Chemist gin and rum distillery.

Kimball House ★ 4.7

Kimball House in Decatur, Atlanta runs the city's most-awarded cocktail and oyster bar inside a converted 19th-century train station. Booking recommended.

Saturn ★ 4.7

Saturn on 41st Street South in Avondale Birmingham is the 2015 Brian Teasley-founded music venue and bar in the former Cory and Faulkner Hardware building.

Hot and Hot Fish Club Bar ★ 4.7

Hot and Hot Fish Club Bar at Pepper Place Birmingham runs craft cocktails alongside Chris Hastings's Southern menu, with the chef-counter and bar seats.

Backbar ★ 4.7

Backbar in Union Square Somerville has poured artful cocktails behind an unmarked door in Boston since 2011. Order the greek mastiha milk punch.

Big Ditch Brewing Taproom ★ 4.7

Big Ditch Brewing on East Huron Street downtown is the two-level Buffalo brewery taproom, with up to fifteen beers on tap and a full small-plates menu.

Lucky Day ★ 4.7

Lucky Day on Pearl Street downtown is the dim-lit Buffalo cocktail bar with a deep whiskey program, leather banquettes and a Prohibition-era room feel.

Radio Bean ★ 4.7

Lee Anderson opened Radio Bean in November 2000 in the former Java Love space on North Winooski. Live music every night; Grace Potter and Anais Mitchell.

Supperland Bar ★ 4.7

The Supperland bar in Plaza Midwood pours cocktails from Michelin's 2025 Exceptional Cocktails Award winner Colleen Hughes, inside the converted 1950s.

The Office (at The Aviary) ★ 4.7

The Office in Chicago is the speakeasy beneath The Aviary on Fulton Market: a 15-seat reservation-only basement room with rare-spirit flights and caviar.

The Comet ★ 4.7

The Comet on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati's Northside is the long-running dive bar and burrito counter with bluegrass nights and a great jukebox.

Ghost Baby ★ 4.7

Ghost Baby on Republic Street in OTR is Cincinnati's subterranean cocktail bar and jazz lounge inside a 19th-century OTR lagering cellar with live music.

Velvet Tango Room ★ 4.7

Velvet Tango Room on Columbus Road in Tremont, Paulius Nasvytis's craft cocktail lounge since 1996, runs scratch pre-Prohibition drinks nightly.

Denmark on High ★ 4.7

Denmark on High is the second-floor Short North cocktail lounge above North High Street, with a rotating seasonal menu and immersive cocktail classes.

Veritas Bar Counter ★ 4.7

The Veritas bar counter on West Gay Street downtown takes walk-in seats facing the open kitchen, with cocktail pairings off the tasting menu.

Death and Co ★ 4.7

Death and Co Denver is the Ramble Hotel cocktail bar from the New York original, an Alex Day and David Kaplan operation since 2018 with a hotel-attached.

Cliff Bell's ★ 4.7

Cliff Bell's on Park Avenue has poured cocktails in Detroit's downtown since 1935. Reopened 2006 by Paul Howard, it is the city's premier live jazz room.

Baker's Keyboard Lounge ★ 4.7

Baker's Keyboard Lounge on Livernois has poured drinks in Detroit since May 1933 and started booking jazz pianists in 1934, the oldest continuously operating.

Bar Beej ★ 4.7

An 11-seat speakeasy inside Cheeni, 2025 James Beard Best New Bar semifinalist. Indian spices, tropical fruits and NC spirits. Reservations required.

Refuge ★ 4.7

Refuge in Houston is Bobby Heugel's reservation-only cocktail apartment above Anvil on Westheimer, with a four-stool bar, stirred cocktails and a slow-paced.

Brother Wolf ★ 4.7

Brother Wolf on West Jackson, Aaron Thompson and Jessica King's Italian aperitivo bar below Osteria Stella, anchors the Old City's cocktail tier with amari.

Velveteen Rabbit ★ 4.7

Velveteen Rabbit in Las Vegas is the Arts District craft-cocktail and beer bar on South Main since 2013, a vintage-furniture room with seasonal cocktail.

Old Lightning ★ 4.7

Old Lightning in Venice, Los Angeles is a hidden whiskey bar behind Scopa with rare bourbons and pre-Prohibition spirits. Order the vintage bourbon flights.

Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery ★ 4.7

Michter's Fort Nelson on West Main runs a working distillery and bar inside an 1890 Whiskey Row building, the brand's Louisville home with The Bar at Fort.

Angel's Envy Distillery ★ 4.7

Angel's Envy on East Main in Louisville runs distillery tours with a tasting bar called The Finishing Room, the brand's downtown home pouring port-finished.

The Old Fashioned ★ 4.7

The Old Fashioned on North Pinckney, the Wisconsin-tavern flagship on Capitol Square, pours hundreds of Wisconsin beers and the brandy Old Fashioned standard.

Cafe La Trova ★ 4.7

Cafe La Trova in Miami's Little Havana is Julio Cabrera and Michelle Bernstein's Cuban bar at 971 SW 8th Street, a regular on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Cure ★ 4.7

Cure in New Orleans is the Freret Street cocktail bar in a 1907 firehouse from Neal Bodenheimer, on the North America's 50 Best Bars list since 2018.

French 75 Bar ★ 4.7

French 75 Bar in New Orleans is Chris Hannah's longtime cocktail room beside Arnaud's on Bienville Street, with the canonical French 75 cocktail.

Attaboy ★ 4.7

Attaboy on Eldridge has poured bartender-choice cocktails in the Lower East Side, New York City since 2013. No menu, no door bell, ring for entry.

The Dead Rabbit ★ 4.7

Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry's three-floor Financial District bar in New York City sits high in the World's 50 Best list. Order the irish coffee.

Double Chicken Please ★ 4.7

Double Chicken Please on Allen Street has run the city's most ambitious flavour-led cocktail program in New York City since 2020. Located in Lower East Side.

Ramen Shop Bar ★ 4.7

Ramen Shop's College Avenue cocktail bar runs original cocktails and highballs with the East Bay's tightest spirit selection from St. George Distillery.

Ghost Town Brewing Taproom ★ 4.7

Ghost Town's Adeline taproom in West Oakland is one of the best craft beer rooms in the East Bay. Hop-forward beers, dog-friendly, with rotating food trucks.

The Berry and Rye ★ 4.7

The Berry and Rye is Omaha's most cited cocktail bar, a Howard Street room with a serious spirits programme, house-made syrups, and a national press profile.

Hanson's Shoe Repair ★ 4.7

Hanson's Shoe Repair on East Pine Street downtown is the rooftop tiki speakeasy with a daily Instagram password, behind a Prohibition-style storefront.

Monk's Cafe ★ 4.7

Monk's Cafe in Philadelphia is the Rittenhouse 16th Street Belgian beer bar since 1997 from Tom Peters and Fergus Carey, with 200-plus Belgian and craft.

Portland Hunt + Alpine Club ★ 4.7

Portland Hunt + Alpine Club on Market Street, since 2013 from Andrew and Briana Volk, is Portland's defining craft cocktail room with aquavit and smorrebrod.

The Eddy ★ 4.7

The Eddy on Eddy Street, open since 2012, is the city's reference craft cocktail bar. Classic and creative cocktails, cheese, charcuterie, oysters.

Brewery Bhavana ★ 4.7

Brewery Bhavana's Belgian farmhouse ales are first-rate. The dim sum kitchen means drinking and eating well happen side by side; Michelin Guide recommended.

False Idol ★ 4.7

False Idol tiki speakeasy in Little Italy, San Diego, the CH Projects hideaway behind Craft and Commerce running classic Don the Beachcomber recipes with rum.

Artillery Bar ★ 4.7

Artillery opened 2016 in an 1896 Georgia Hussars armory on Bull, with a tile-ceilinged Venetian-Gothic interior, leather menus, call-light cocktail service.

Lone Wolf Lounge ★ 4.7

Andrew Ripley and Tom Worley's Lone Wolf on Lincoln in Starland: a 2025 James Beard Outstanding Bar semifinalist, Georgia's only. Craft cocktails on tap.

Canon ★ 4.7

Canon in Seattle's Capitol Hill is Jamie Boudreau's whiskey bar since 2011: 4000 labels, America's largest spirits collection and a tight kitchen alongside.

Rome and Fig Cocktail Bar ★ 4.7

Rome and Fig in North Hyde Park runs a cocktail bar alongside the Mediterranean restaurant, with seasonal cocktails and an aperitivo program.

Mandarin Heights ★ 4.7

Mandarin Heights in Seminole Heights is a mid-century palm-beach-chic cocktail lounge with classic drink recipes and a forward-thinking program.

CW's Gin Joint ★ 4.7

CW's Gin Joint downtown is a sultry speakeasy with live jazz and piano Thursday through Sunday, craft cocktails and a Roaring Twenties room.

Hotel Congress Tap Room ★ 4.7

Hotel Congress Tap Room on East Congress in Tucson opened with the hotel in 1919, one of the oldest continuously operating bars in Arizona, open until 2 a.m.

Reilly Underground ★ 4.7

Reilly Underground on East Pennington in downtown Tucson is the basement cocktail club beneath the pizzeria, with Italian-leaning drinks nightly.

Nê Cocktail Bar ★ 4.7

Nê Cocktail Bar in Hanoi is Pham Tien Tiep's award-winning room on Tong Duy Tan, ranked No 76 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2021 for cocktails like the flaming pho.

Bia Hơi Corner Ta Hien ★ 4.7

The Bia Hoi Corner in Hanoi is the pavement crossroads of Ta Hien and Luong Ngoc Quyen, where unpasteurised fresh draft pours at 10,000-15,000 VND per glass.

Death & Taxes ★ 4.6

Death & Taxes hides on Burnett Lane in Brisbane CBD. Speakeasy-format bar in a laneway off Adelaide Street, classic cocktails and deep wine list.

Bar Americano ★ 4.6

Bar Americano fits 10 people in a CBD laneway and does not take bookings: the Negroni standard for Melbourne and a lesson in what a small bar.

Above Board ★ 4.6

Above Board in Collingwood seats 8 at a U-shaped counter and serves rotating seasonal cocktails from a hidden room accessed via Chopper Lane.

Ramblin' Rascal Tavern ★ 4.6

Cocktail dive on Park Street, Sydney CBD. Dive-bar aesthetic, top-shelf bar program; hot dogs at midnight and a sound system that runs loud.

PS40 ★ 4.6

Hidden cocktail bar off Skittle Lane in the Sydney CBD, built on house-made sodas such as wattleseed cola; Tuesday brings a bartender takeover.

Roberto American Bar ★ 4.6

Roberto American Bar on Bauernmarkt was opened by long-time Loos Bar head bartender Robert Pavlovic in 2014, the alcove-divided room running late on classics.

Tuer 7 ★ 4.6

Tuer 7 on Buchfeldgasse in Vienna's Josefstadt is the city's best-kept speakeasy, marked only by a brass '7' on the door, the bar team building cocktails.

't Brugs Beertje ★ 4.6

't Brugs Beertje on Kemelstraat is the reference beer cafe of Bruges, pouring around 300 Belgian beers with five on draft in a small brown room.

De Garre ★ 4.6

De Garre hides down the narrowest alley off Breidelstraat in Bruges, pouring its 11% house Tripel van De Garre brewed by Van Steenberge in a snug brick room.

Moeder Lambic Fontainas ★ 4.6

Moeder Lambic on Place Fontainas runs 46 taps of Belgian and European craft, plus a 200-bottle cellar leaning hard on lambic. Order the cantillon gueuze.

Jigger's Coolers and Cocktails ★ 4.6

Jigger's is a subterranean cocktail bar in the Patershol, listed on the World's 50 Best Discovery list. The cellar bar uses seasonal produce and locally.

Pivnica HS ★ 4.6

Pivnica HS in Sarajevo's Sarajevska Pivara is the only room serving the brewery's unfiltered draught, with 400 seats across vaulted halls beside the museum.

Blue Blazer ★ 4.6

Blue Blazer is a Botafogo cocktail bar in Rio de Janeiro whose Portas Etílicas menu includes Laura Paravato's Maní, with tucupi liqueur and jataí mead.

111 Music Bar ★ 4.6

111 Music Bar is a listening bar on the third floor of a Copacabana building in Rio de Janeiro, with Genelec speakers, vinyl and a Japanese-led bar menu.

Tan Tan ★ 4.6

Tan Tan is Thiago Banares' small Pinheiros cocktail bar in Sao Paulo, ranked No. 24 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025, the only Brazilian bar in that top 50.

Cat and Mouse ★ 4.6

Cat and Mouse opened in 2015 as the first craft beer bar in Kapana. 150+ Belgian, German, Czech, Spanish and Bulgarian beers, distinctive design.

Civil Liberties ★ 4.6

Civil Liberties on Bloor at Ossington runs a no-menu speakeasy since 2014, bartenders mixing drinks to your taste in an industrial-vibe back room.

BarChef ★ 4.6

BarChef on Queen West is Frankie Solarik's modernist cocktail bar since 2008, theatrical drinks with dry ice, smoked glass domes and botanical foams.

Prohibition ★ 4.6

Prohibition at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia is a speakeasy-style basement bar since 2012, classic cocktails and live jazz on Wednesday through Saturday.

Leopold's Delicatessen Bar ★ 4.6

Leopold's Delicatessen Bar on Poljana Tina Ujevica in Split is the pioneering craft-beer bar in the Old Town, with the city's deepest Croatian draught list.

Bird ★ 4.6

Bird on Gammel Kongevej in Frederiksberg pairs precise classic cocktails with a vinyl jazz programme in a tight Frederiksberg listening room.

Sigmund Freud Bar ★ 4.6

Sigmund Freud Bar on Sauna in the Old Town is a 2016-opened cocktail room with Freud-shaped ceramics, listed in 50 Best Discovery for its drinks list.

Carry Nation ★ 4.6

Carry Nation in Marseille's 6e is a hidden speakeasy named for the hatchet-wielding temperance activist, prohibition-era cocktails behind a door you.