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The World’s 50 Best Bars 2015: results

Find out who won what at the 2015 World's 50 Best Bars awards, including The Artesian's four year-strong lead, the triumph of London above all other European cities, and why hotel bars are where it's at.

October 8, 2015 at 11:01 pm

Winners of the World’s 50 Best Bars were announced at a glamorous ceremony in Christchurch Spitalfields last night (October 8).

The biggest hitting headlines

*London was crowned the ultimate capital of cocktails with five bars in the top 10, and nine in the list overall

*The Artesian wins best bar in the world – that’s four years running now. Click here to read our Artesian bar at The Langham hotel: Surrealism menu review

*The Savoy Hotel has two bars in the list: The American Bar and The Beaufort Bar – an amazing achievement

*Hotel bars triumph in London with five in the list (three in the top ten). The remaining four London bars are hidden gems, speakeasies, dive bars, and concept-led venues

*London beats off competition from the rest of Europe – Germany has three (one per major city); and France, Amsterdam and Italy have just two each

*Rising star Ryan Chetti has two bars in the list – White Lyan and Dandelyan – and is the only individual to achieve such an accolade

*Barcelona all time achiever Dry Martini has just launched a new bar in London

The full list of winners

Ranking	Bar	Location
1	Artesian	London
2	The Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog	New York
3	Nightjar	London
4	Employees Only	New York
5	American Bar	London
6	The Baxter Inn	Sydney
7	28 Hongkong Street	Singapore
8	Happiness Forgets	London
9	Connaught Bar	London
10	Black Pearl	Melbourne
11	Attaboy	New York
12	Candelaria	Paris
13	High Five	Tokyo
14	The Broken Shaker	Miami
15	Canon	Seattle
16	Buck & Breck	Berlin
17	Imperial Craft	Tel Aviv
18	Lobster Bar	Hong Kong
19	Le Lion Bar de Paris	Hamburg
20	Licoreria Limantour	Mexico City
21	The Jerry Thomas Project	Rome
22	The Clumsies	Athens
23	Maison Premiere	New York
24	Elephant Bar	New York
25	The Everleigh	Melbourne
26	White Lyan	London
27	Beaufort Bar	London
28	Bulletin Place	Sydney
29	Aviary	Chicago
30	Tales & Spirits	Amsterdam
31	Smuggler’s Cove	San Francisco
32	Delicatessen	Moscow
33	Door 74	Amsterdam
34	Ruby	Copenhagen
35	Manhattan	Singapore
36	Nomad Bar	New York
37	PDT	New York
38	Mace	New York
39	Quinary	Hong Kong
40	Trick Dog	San Francisco
41	69 Colebrooke Row	London
42	Dry Martini	Barcelona
43	Schumann’s	Munich
44	Zuma Dubai	Dubai
45	La Factoria	Old San Juan
46	Nottingham Forest	Milan
47	Tommy’s	San Francisco