The World's 50 Best lists (Restaurants, Bars, Hotels and Vineyards) have rebranded under the name The 50.

Joe and Daniel Schofield have secured the site of Schofield’s London in Covent Garden, after almost three years of searching.

Line from Athens has tonight (June 30) been named Europe’s Best Bar at the inaugural Europe’s 50 Best Bars ceremony, held at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Judged by the Class Collective (a group of 180 bar aficionados from across the UK), the Class Bar Awards recognises the talent, achievements and diversity of the UK bar scene. Satan’s Whiskers in London took the big bar award of the night, winning Bar of the Year sponsored by Savoia and taking the regional accolade: Best Bar in London & the South East sponsored by Sagamore…

Launched in 2008, the venue won Restaurant Bar of the Year in 2018 and 2019 at the Class Bar Awards.  The success of The Bon Vivant led to the establishment of sister venues, such as The Bon Vivant’s Companion in 2011 and The Devil’s Advocate in 2013, before founder Stuart McCluskey left the group in 2023. …

Now in its 17th year, The World’s 50 Best Bars list is voted for by a panel of 800 global bar experts, made up of bartenders, drinks writers and cocktail experts. To read Drinks International‘s Global Bar Edition, featuring the official guide to The World’s 50 Best Bars, click here.  Bar Leone – which debuted as runner up in the 2024 list having only…

If bookmakers set odds on the runners for the title of World’s Best Bar, there would have been one clear favourite. When Bar Leone came out of nowhere to debut in second place in 2024 (having only opened a year earlier), just about everyone you spoke to said it was the 2025 champion in waiting. And so, it was thus – and where better to…

The World’s 50 Best Bars is an annual list and awards event that recognises and celebrates the best of the global bar industry. Now in its 17th year, the list provides an international ranking, voted for by more than 800 drinks experts from across the globe with a 50/50 gender balance. The panel of voters is refreshed by a minimum of 25% each year. The…

If you’re the kind of person who likes to pop the bonnet and get an understanding of how it works before you get stuck into a list, these pages are for you. We try to be as transparent as possible about how we put a list together, because if you don’t appreciate the process, you’re unlikely to believe in the final product.

So you’ve read the list and been regaled by the tales of triumph and good deeds. It’d probably help now to provide a little more context around the rankings – the threads that connect them and the trends we can tease out. We can’t start anywhere but at the top where, for the first time in five years, we have a new number one, with…